Whether he has taken on significant debt, for example, is not public information.

The media has the same position on the national debt.

Interest on the national debt will be some $200 billion.

We pay more than $300 billion in interest on the national debt every year.

At an average rate of 9 percent, interest on the debt will be almost $300 billion a year.

Just to pay the interest on its debt this year, Iraq needs $8 billion.

Almost 70 percent of the budget goes toward interest on debt or for the military.

But a good deal of this was the interest bill on the growing national debt.

It won't begin to pay for just one year's interest on the debt.

Right now, the interest on the debt is 14 percent of the total budget.