"12 Years a Slave"? Try 100 years, times 200,000,000 slaves.

[Little-Acorn]

By the way... they won't pay off a dime of the debt, until and unless there's a balanced budget... or, in fact, a budget with a surplus. Which hasn't happened since 1957.

Every year with a budget with a deficit, they borrow MORE money and make the debt BIGGER.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Try all of human history across all races, creeds and nations for a large part of every nations population. This is closer to the sad truth.