It Is Not Sustainable
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mullen gets it right:
“I was shown the figures the other day by the comptroller of the Pentagon that said that the interest on our debt is $571 billion in 2012,” Mullen said at a breakfast hosted by The Hill. “That is, noticeably, about the size of the defense budget. It is not sustainable.”
Now, if we can get our President to understand.