http://thecrux.com/the-united-states-of-debt-total-debt-in-america-just-hit-an-outrageous-new-record/

" If you go back 40 years ago, total debt in America was sitting at about 2.2 trillion dollars. Somehow over the past four decades we have allowed the total amount of debt in the United States to get approximately 27 times larger."

hmmmmm  when did we come off the gold standard  ?   :-)