NONE of the debt in this article is talking about the national debt... this is all personal debt... house, credit card, car, etc... the national debt of 17 trillion is on top of this debt...

First of all the overall household debt went down over these past 5 years because people lost their homes... to a tune of over 2.5 trillion dollars... so credit card debt and other household debt went way up... This story is misleading... AND as soon as people can buy a home again their household debt will be way highe...more

I THOUGHT OBAMACARE WAS SUPPOSE TO LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS... I DOUBTED IT FROM THE BEGINNING... AND NOW WE ARE STARTING TO SEE HOW THIS IS GOING TO WORK... WE MUST REPEAL THIS AND SOON...

I am not attracted to FAT... these women have no control over eating... fat is not attractive... only people looking are laughing... sorry to fat women ... but fat is fat... and not healthy

not a disease... he was a weak person... and died of his weakness...

no mater what any doctor says... alcoholism is a weakness... not an illness... weak people want a crutch and doctors are more than willing to give them one.... weak people and substance abuse go hand in hand...

And think about this... I have been told that US companies have trillions of dollars they are sitting on... now think about that... even they are not willing to chance spending their own money on expansion or research / development... they feel the need to have cash on hand in case of a downturn... Well its coming, the...more

Any company that needs to increase its dividend by 15% and buy back billions of dollars of their own stock... well I would stay away from that company... something is seriously wrong... Apple is just one of those companies that I would steer clear of...

The Banks are holding back about 19 million houses... keeping them off the market and artificially low interest rates are making the housing market look good... guess who is paying for those 19 million houses just sitting collecting mold... you guess it, the US taxpayer... things are not good...