Public assets generate revenue and keep living costs down."
Matt Snow,
Add to this non-military National or State Service & make teachers to spend time in the real world before letting them lose on our kids & this joint will be on the upper in no time.

http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock
I recommend the link to any one wanting to see world debt by country, including ours.
A worth while step for some who truly are unaware that comparing us with others we are doing well.
My thread was not to infer our country is going to fail.
I wanted to highlight both the GFC is not gone.
And that our private debt is , well out of control.
I under stand, we all should, while some will suffer others will prosper, because of that suffering.
Homes once costing a million will change hands for a tenth of that.
An impact, depending on the worlds handling of the GFC could be, a whole new tighter more controlled world banking/credit everything.