...which is supposed to create jobs. Where are the jobs? We have been seeing record high stocks for a long time now.

for food stamps and should be in the news if it keeps going up imo

it has gone way up (at least in some states) quite a lot post Bush destruction of the country

Ok I googled one ........ the 2nd chart shows stamps vs all the nonfarm jobs

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022489563

Dow Jones Industrial Average: Then 14164.5; Now 14164.5
Regular Gas Price: Then $2.75; Now $3.73
GDP Growth: Then +2.5%; Now +1.6%
Americans Unemployed (in Labor Force): Then 6.7 million; Now 13.2 million
Americans On Food Stamps: Then 26.9 million; Now 47.69 million
Size of Fed's Balance Sheet: Then $0.89 trillion; Now $3.01 trillion
US Debt as a Percentage of GDP: Then ~38%; Now 74.2%
US Deficit (LTM): Then $97 billion; Now $975.6 billion
Total US Debt Oustanding: Then $9.008 trillion; Now $16.43 trillion
US Household Debt: Then $13.5 trillion; Now 12.87 trillion
Labor Force Particpation Rate: Then 65.8%; Now 63.6%
Consumer Confidence: Then 99.5; Now 69.6
S&P Rating of the US: Then AAA; Now AA+
VIX: Then 17.5%; Now 14%
10 Year Treasury Yield: Then 4.64%; Now 1.89%
USDJPY: Then 117; Now 93
EURUSD: Then 1.4145; Now 1.3050
Gold: Then $748; Now $1583
NYSE Average LTM Volume (per day): Then 1.3 billion shares; Now 545 million shares

If we go into hyperinflation we will be well and truly screwed. The preppers will have been right.

thing that can change that is if we institute economy-killing austerity programs. Even this corporate inspired, anemic recovery is hacking into the debt with sufficient speed, and the fact that we are able to raise money essentially for free means that, of all the real problems we facing, our national debt is waaaaay down the list.

Try thinking of it this way, what is your annual income? How much do you owe on your house? This is not a perfect analogy by any means, but it should give you some sense of proportion regarding our debt. And learn what hyper-inflation is.

Don't be condescending. You can disagree without being insulting. There have been some extreme examples of it. Germany in 1921 to 1924.

Argentina in 1989, inflation rate of 12,000%, annually.

Basically the government attempts monetize its debt.

All our debt is dollar denominated, which makes a huge difference.

There is no correlation between the United States and post WWI Germany or the World Bank/IMF corporate looting of Argentina, or to present day Greece, or any other RW corporate propaganda currently being churned out by our media, zero, zilch, nada, none whatsoever.

Hyper-inflation had only the most tenuous connection to national debt and even there when the debt becomes many, many times greater than GDP of said nation. It is caused by the widespread collapse of confidence in a national currency.

The U.S. has the most stable, and therefore sought after, currency in the world. If China, the Reich's favorite economic bogey-man, decided tomorrow to never buy another U.S. bond, there is a line around the globe of other governments and gigantic financial entities waiting to take their place. Worst case scenario today, we might have to pay some tiny bit of interest on our bonds to attract as much money as we could possibly want. The only people worried about our debt are those with a social/political agenda and people that don't understand the most basic principles of macroeconomics.