Personal Narrative: America As A Nation Is In Debt

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America as a nation, is in debt. Today, the United States of America is in debt 19.3 trillion and growing every second! That is a debt burden of $59, 586 for every man, woman, and child in this nation. Not only is our government binding future generations to trillions of dollars of debt, we have lost 5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000. Globalization and outsourcing are leading to the steady decline of our manufacturing industries. In 1960, about one in four workers had a job in manufacturing. According to government data, today fewer than one in ten are employed in the sector. The transition from the manufacturing industries to globalization and outsourcing, workers are moving to service counters and health care centers.