America's debt is the largest in the world for a single country. It runs neck and neck with that of the European Union, an economic union of 28 countries. For more, see Sovereign Debt Rankings. The debt is greater than what America produces in a whole year.
This deadly wound was in Julius Caesar's chest. Brutus, perhaps the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, stabbed the great man in the groin. Caesar landed only one counterattack when he stabbed Publius Servilius Casca Longus, the first perpetrator, in the arm with a stylus.
But then Julius Caesar had to go get stabbed on the floor of the senate by a group of conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius, having not heeded a soothsayer's warning that the day would bring him harm. Shakespeare immortalized this unheralded message to beware the Ides of March in his play, Julius Caesar.