Cal Thomas: The unmentioned issue in this campaign

“Debt is the worst poverty.” — Thomas Fuller, 17th-century English churchman and historian

No reporter asks about it. The candidates don’t talk about it. Are voters even concerned about it?

The unmentioned “it” is the national debt, which days ago reached $27 trillion and continues to grow like an untreated tumor on the economic body of the nation.

At least one group is trying (MDC), a civilian-led commission working toward a framework for long-term deficit reduction, made up of “20 millennial business leaders from across the country.”