Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110416:17:06:00
Cover the difference and all of the deficits add to a huge pile of national debt. how big? 14,000 billion. so deficits are spending more money than you make and debt is something owed, it's how much money you owe. the u.s. currently has $14.296 trillion in debt. if we continue to spend money at the current rate, the debt will top $25 trillion in ten years. under president obama's plan, that's 20.8 trillion. and under the paul ryan republican plan, it would be 19 trillion in ten years. think of that, even under these reduction plans, trimming it, it's just slowing the rate of increase but the i...