The national debt bothers me. It's less than Canada's percentage wise(today, lol) - but yes, still too high for comfort. You don't want it climbing higher than the GDP and my comfort zone would be no more than 50% of that. Still, we are in the middle of World War III in my o. We made it through and won the Cold War but now we are in the War on Terror whether we like it or not. That is increasing the debt. Our current administration is going to need to watch the needle carefully over the next four years. You are right about that.