How Far Can the National Debt Go Before China and Other Countries Decide to Stop Lending Us Money?

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The Inhabitant Debt is currently at 12.5 trillion dollars, and rising by the following. Now, it doesn’t look like that money will be paid off anytime soon. It is the result of years of massive services and social spending, predominantly. Under Reagan, the Inhabitant Debt rose substantially due to the ridiculous services buildup that the government oversaw, along with massive overall government expansion, and during his presidency, the US went from being the largest creditor nation on earth to the largest debtor nation. So my question is how do we take care of this problem?

Why Are Conservatives So Dishonest About the National Debt?

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Conservatives tout that the US inhabitant debt is an emerging crisis that will soon bankrupt the United States. What they don’t say is that a small less than half is intragovernmental debt. That is, money the US government owes itself. After WWII the US owed 120% of its GDP in public debt. At this time it only owes about 84% and that map includes the money the government owes itself. Public debt, what money the govermenet owes others, is about 60% of GDP or half the GDP to debt ratio after WWII.
Why do conservatives try to scare people about a problem that does not exist?