What is the Purpose of the US National Debt?

In my opinion the main purpose of the United States national debt is to segregate financial and social classes.

When I was younger I was so naive that I cared about the national debt and wanted to help pay it down. On their website it says where you can send a check to:

ATTN DEPT G
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
P O BOX 2188
PARKERSBURG, WV 26106-2188

But our government cuts taxes on the rich and then pays them interest for loaning money they should have paid in anyway.

How does the debt segregate social classes?

• It teaches people that it is ok to spend more than they have.
  
• It gives the government an arbitrary excuse to cut social programs or things related to humanity and attempts at equality.
  
• It also guarantees that our richest people and companies will earn money back off the country as a whole, and that those who want to rise above that problem have further to dig uphill.

Posted at August 6, 2005 5:58 AM