Excerpts: The national debt worries a great many people. Some think mounting Federal debts and budget deficits in recent years are forerunners of a crack-up of the government's credit: inflation, chaos. Others say a Federal debt several times the size of the present one would not be dangerous. The following facts are presented with the intention of contributing to sober consideration of the public debt question. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves except where interpretation and explanation are needed for clarity.
