I guess you would prefer soup lines to national debt. Just listen to the Bush people and how they were panicked about a default in the 4Q2007. Things were touch and go. And they laid the budget for 2008 which had the bulk of the deficit increase. Nothing done about it since then by both parties. One wants to spend on healthcare, the other on military. Trump is an idiot and Hillary a liar. To fix the issue the politicians need to listen to the bipartisan commission who has repeatedly stated this debt won't go away without 1) increasing taxes; AND, 2) decreasing spending. Each party now holds the opposite of one of those positions. It won't work. And neither party wants to back away from their corner. You and I pay the price because they want to get elected. Trump's plans, if you call you them that, are a joke. No long wall in history has every survived. Walls of China, Hadrian, Athenian, Constantinople....they all failed. But all he know is how to to build, so that is his solution for everything.