Brain357
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Repubs love debt.Not reallyPerhaps, but we need change. Trump going to turn us into Greece.It can always get worseWell Reagan tripled the debt. Bush ruined a balanced budget. And trump has increased Obama’s deficits. Repubs are certainly not fiscally responsible.
Most of our debt is either intragovernmental where one part of government owes another or is held by US interests where the interest paid on the debt is directly injected into the economy in some way or another. Greece's debt was almost solely owed to the foreign powers of the EU.
china and japan each hold about a trillion of our debt, see cite
China Owns US Debt, but How Much?
Which is nothing compared to the amount held by US citizens and institutions.
Most of the interest paid on the debt ends up right here in the states and in fact if that debt and interest were to be paid off we would see a huge disruption in th bond market and that would wreak havoc on the retirement accounts and pensions of millions of people
30% of the debt is money the government owes to itself about 6 trillion
The remaining 70% is held by the public 58% of the public debt is held my US interests which includes the Federal Reserve, other banks, investment funds and individuals