How can we continue to adding to both and expect to continue down the same path? Lather, rinse and repeat.
How could we pay down our National Debt unless we first craft a budget that would produce an actual surplus? Then some or all of that surplus could be used to pay down some of our National Debt.
I may have all of this wrong because high finance to me is making change for $1. But it seems to me that we're pre-screwed, no matter what we do. We're a country with an empty gas tank that's running on fumes.