Government spending is a controversial topic. Even though the government has a set budget each year that Congress and the President of the United States work together on, the United States continues to have deeper and deeper debt. According to the US National Debt, as of 2012 US debt is greater than our total annual gross domestic product. In other words, our debt is greater than the value of all goods and services produced in the country in a twelve-month period. “The United States is currently said to be $19.2 trillion in debt (US national debt).” As long as Congress and the President continue to run annual budget deficits, America's debt will continue to increase. As our deficits continue to increase, our government should focus on raising revenue and reducing the national debt. According to the US Debt Clock, if the US economy were to suddenly collapse, each citizen would be $202,835 in debt. This is more than the average citizen could earn in 4.4 years. In 2014, a wage survey concluded that the national average wage per citizen was $46,481.52 (Social Security). If the United States continues to ignore existing debt, the countries we owe money to could cut us off from trade. If this were to happen, it would not only damage our economy, but we could find ourselves in another great depression. China, Japan and Brazil are just some of the countries to which the government is indebted. While there are other areas of concern, such as military, education, and social security, that the government must allocate spending to, reducing the national debt is what our government officials should be their primary spending considering the size of our debt. the government can't find a way to reduce its expenses... half paper... security. If the government allocated spending primarily to these areas or primarily to people, our economy would suffer. In other words, if the U.S. government ignored its debt and focused only on its people, the debt would continue to increase and take longer to repay. The government needs to start allocating more money to the debt and paying it off so that officials can focus primarily on citizens. There are clearly many areas where the government needs to balance spending, but more emphasis needs to be placed on reducing the trillions of dollars of debt. If we don't focus on reducing this debt, it is believed that we will end up in recession. This would not only cause continued debt and very little spending on the needs of the population, but could very well cause a negative impact on trade relations with foreign countries on much-needed trade items..