{"id":456201,"date":"2026-09-07T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456201\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:40:10","slug":"we-must-reduce-the-national-debt-to-head-off-economic-catastrophe-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456201\/","title":{"rendered":"We must reduce the national debt to head off economic catastrophe \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Re \u201cThe US national debt now stands at $40 trillion\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/19\/us-national-debt-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 19<\/a>): Thank you for the article on our quickly increasing national debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we divide that debt by the number of people in the U.S., we find that every man, woman, child and newborn baby in this country owes $114,600 to foreign governments, insurance companies, banks and investors. The $2 trillion increase in the debt this year equals an increase of $5,730 per person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to what we each owe, we are seeing this debt cause an increase in home mortgage, auto loan and credit card interest rates, costing most Americans additional money that they cannot afford.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We need President Trump and members of Congress from both parties to get together and reduce the debt in a controlled fashion before some financial catastrophe forces an uncontrolled reduction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 Larry Peranich, Scripps Ranch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cThe US national debt now stands at $40 trillion\u201d (Aug. 19): Thank you for the article on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-456201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}