LETTER: Don’t fret about the national debt, it’s a credit to us citizens

To Ozaukee Press:

One day in 1963, the landlord came to collect the rent for our apartment in Madison, where we were students at UW.  During a short discussion, he told us that if we wanted to become wealthy, we needed to find a way to owe $1 million ($10 million today). The point he made was that if someone is willing to lend you money, they have a lot of confidence in your ability to pay it back.