the national debt of the U.S.A

        The United States of America has huge amount of debt now. It is known as about $55 trillion. I can’t even imagine how big it is.Looking the last couple years, the Unite States have been obviously spending so much money on the War in Iraq. I don’t know if that’s for getting huge oil resources by conquering and taking over their places, but to me who is not from this country it does really look just unwise way and wasting their money for killing innocent people. It’s also quite clear they borrowed so much money from many countries and now it remains as huge debts for this country. I think if they still keep doing this, then it would be definitely the cause and for as its potential consequences of growing national debt they will have more debt.           

       To stop this, first America should end the war in Iraq. So far $ 864 billion is the total cost which covers all war-related appropriations from FY 2001 through part of FY 2009 in supplemental, regular appropriations, and continuing resolutions. This is really huge amount of money therefore if they keep going like this, it probably hits some amount of money which they almost can never pay back anymore.            

       For general, I heard the total national debt of this country is about $53 trillion and that includes social security and medical care and so on. On the medical care field, I think America will face to another problem. From 1946 to 1964 America had baby boom. People who were born during the period were considered as baby boom generation and from January 2008 they started receiving the social security. Since it is even called “baby boom” there are huge population and I think it is possible to happen that their demand exceeds the supply. That way, they might have to borrow some money again and the debt gets expand.       

        I don’t know what the exact solution for this, but there are some ways that America can try. Alternative energy could be the one of the ways. With the huge plenty wide of land of America, solar power, wind power and water power etc could be very ideal trial. I bet they already have been trying these alternative energies. Also now many car companies in the world are working on to invent new energy for car which can be substitutable for gasoline like hybrid or electric. If these energies can be more realistic and spread out over the world and applied more to our ordinal lives then that can save quite big cost. Of course it’s also good for our earth.

         There is also another way that America can try harder. It’s recycle. In Japan, when we set up trash can it will be categorized into four big categories and if I translate directly from Japanese to English those are combustible trash, incombustible trash, resource trash, and plastic bottle.  Combustible trash is basically anything that can be disposed by burning. Incombustible trash can be buried on our land. Now next two things are important parts. Resource trash could be glass bottle like bear bottle, news papers, magazines, cardboard boxes, and anything like that. Those are taken to a place and recycled, and come out as new products. For the last category, plastic bottle is the bottle you find it in store as container for coke, mountain dew and basically any drinks contained in plastic bottle. These empty bottles can be also recycled and it will be renewed as the same function of bottle. Then we don’t have to use more resources to produce exactly same products. It might be seen in your eyes as just a tiny thing but these tiny things can save some money and it will become big money at the end. Since I came here, I’ve noticed that people just throw away trash in one trash can together in America. Probably since America has large land so maybe it doesn’t matter to people to just throw away and buried them in the ground, but that is something people can easily change if they pay attention more.           

         Another idea is eating healthy food and staying healthy. This may not sound like ridiculous but the real meaning behind the idea will be explained next. If the numbers of unhealthy people or corpulent people are increased then work force of this country will decline. If people got sick or became overweight extremely then I think they will tend not to work anymore. If the numbers of workers decrease then probably the GDP of this country also decreases. It is just a bad cycle.            

        There must be better and more practical solution which is like some governors come up, but these ideas that I suggested are very small thing and easy thing and they can make a big difference when it’s piled up. So just do what you can do and start from very small thing.     Work Site.http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf