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Everybody's Missing the Biggest Story in Washington -- Our Debt Nightmare

There's so much political news these days. I can't turn on any news channel and not hear a constant drumbeat of Trump, Trump, Trump.

But he's not the only story.

A lot of the noise coming out of Washington and the media really doesn't matter. What does matter is the size of the mounting federal debt -- over $22 trillion. And on top of that are the obligations to baby boomers for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - $60 trillion.

Nobody seems to care about it, but it's a mathematical nightmare for our country over the next generation. We are

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