Honesty

Well, I'm going to be quite honest here. If I could solve the debt problem with our country in two weeks then, one, I wouldn't bother going to school at all and would be making my own living and, two, I would now consider every person in the country an idiot. How could someone call themselves even slightly intelligent when a 17 year old kid from Lexington, Kentucky solves a problem in two weeks that has had them scrambling for decades? The only solution that I or anybody else here can offer is a vague description of how they would "cut spending and decrease taxes" or "increase spending and increase taxes". Actually, most of what you're going to read on here is repeated information; ideas that have already been developed, refined, and edited by thousands of other people. But quite honestly, that's almost expected from us. We're only 17 year old and we have little to no experience with handling money or even understanding how expansive, complex, and interconnected the economy is. The only thing we can do is repeat what other people have told us because we have no experience or information to tell us to disagree with them or agree with someone else. While this might be a sad truth, it is a truth nonetheless. Until we become fully functional adults and financially independent and informed, we cannot offer a legitimate solution to the problem.