This isn't supposed to be happening.

The financial crisis is years behind us. The economy is supposedly on solid footing. The government keeps gushing about how much tax revenue they're collecting.

Usually when government debt expands so rapidly it's because they're waging war, fighting a major recession, or financing some serious infrastructure projects.

But none of these things are happening.

Think about it– yesterday I told you that the debt is now $19.5 trillion. The debt hit $18.5 trillion in November of last year… meaning that they added $1 trillion to the national debt in just 10 months.