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CMV: The national debt does not matter and worry about it has hurt our country tremdously

In America, the national debt does not matter. We own the currency and we can always pay it back. Worry about the national debt has cost a massive amount of suffering in our country by underinvestment in our economy. 

Look at how long unemployment took to recover after 2008 vs 2020. Why did it take so long? Because no one wanted to spend the required money and we had a half assed stimulus. In 2020, we actually spent the required money and now we're almost back at full employment. The funny thing is the real crisis is much worse in 2020, we had massive amount of the economy forced to shut down, and a million people die. In 2007-2008 there wasn't anything actually wrong with our ability to produce things, it was incompetent regulators and bankers, and politicians.

We could have been back to 4% unemployment in under a year instead of ten if we actually spent the money, saving thousands of lives from suicide, addiction and depression.

We could have high speed rail, we could have universal healthcare, we could have so much if our government was willing to actually invest.
gpt
You make two fundamental errors here.   

First of all the US Government does not own the currency currently used in the United States.  That ended in 1971 when full control was turned over to the Federal Reserve.  The Federal Reserve, despite the name, is not part of the Federal Government.  The US Treasury got out of the business because they can't directly issue Fiat money.

Furthermore 98% of all debt the US currently has, has been run up since 1973 when the above went into effect.   Not co-incidentally, it coincides with the ending of the greatest economic expansion that ever existed in history, the USA's growth from 1798 - 1971.  Exactly the opposite of your theory.   

Your second fundamental error is in assuming the United States can ask the Federal Reserve to loan it infinite amounts of money.  This isn't the case because interest has to be paid on that money.  Due to Constitutional limitations, they have to operate as a bank or they can't issue Fiat Money.  So they pay interest to those who will take that debt.   The USA doesn't exist in a vacuum.  Individuals, institutions and countries buy that debt and they expect to be paid an interest rate on it.   Trade depends upon it, energy depends upon it, etc.  You can't infinitely devalue the USD on a limited resource like oil for example. 

Finally, if your solution had merit then the Federal government could make the minimum wage $1000/hour.  Then everyone could live well off.  Of course that can't happen and this is why your viewpoint doesn't work.