Yet Another Column on the Deficit/Debt by an Innumerate Author

No, I'm not engaging in name calling, this is based on Barton Swaim's self-description of his abilities in his Washington Post column on the United States being in decline. Swaim, a contributing columnist to the Washington Post complained to readers that the United States is becoming a European-style regulatory state, then added:

"neither the country’s political class nor its voters seem to care that the national debt has reached literally incomprehensible levels; ..."

In fact, the numerate a...