We are saddling our kids and our grandkids with a tremendous debt level. Again, let's put this into perspective. We are talking about somewhere between 100 and 200 aircraft carriers end to end. We've got about twelve aircraft carriers. Now, that's what we're talking about. This is a lot of money. This is more money than we spent in Afghanistan and in Iraq during all of those years of those wars.
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