I think a lot of Americans are in credit card debt since it is so easy to get credit these days.

Hopefully we will be able to help our children out with college expenses and some day be able to retire. I don't want to make my children start in debt when they are done with college like we did.

I am a lot like my mother watching her pennies.

Americans are up to their eyeballs in debt. The schools raise tuition each year, the loan totals go up and the scholarships offered are not as good. This is a dilemma for the middle class.

Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should betempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands shouldbe curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. 55 B.C.