The Cost of Spending: In search of solutions to America's debt crisis
By Bret Baier | Published December 21, 2012 FoxNews.com
We're always hearing from politicians about the urgency of the nation's fiscal situation. The debt is over $16 trillion. Deficits -- the annual shortfall -- are persistently north of $1 trillion.
Those figures are constantly in the background, reminding both parties that whatever the solutions, they need to find and act on them quickly. And the solutions will have to be big -- because the problem is massive.