Debt has become the currency of the world at this point.
"Since U.S. "money" (and the money of the whole world) is bank credit and since bank credit is created by government and commercial banks, then the "national debt" represents bank credit passed or "loaned" upon an unsuspecting public for their real assets and labor.
Translated: Modern money (bank credit) expropriates wealth. In truth then, the huge reported "national debt" is how much wealth the government has stolen from the American people — not how much the government owes.
Read on:
http://personalliberty.com/wealth-is-debt/