Dear Friend, Public concerns over our annual runaway federal deficits and our huge national debt now equal concerns over our failing economy. In 1980 our national debt stood at about $800 billion—an amount accumulated over 200 years. In just three decades, that debt has increased almost twenty times over. The national debt, excluding unrecorded and unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare (estimated at $50 trillion dollars), will exceed $15 trillion by the end of