text: Currently-our country has approximately 19 trillion in debt.  
  
  Also-many communities are declining the federal $ because they see that with current 
  laws, the more population an area gets-the more they have to grow in the future.  Few more jobs are added just lots of people.  Areas such as Boulder, Colorado and places in California 
  such as Petaluma have embraced slow growth or even non-growth.