Global debt hits all-time high of $184,000,000,000,000

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I'll need to check, but I'm sure I read recently that it cost the UK £52 billion this year servicing the national debt. That would be £16 billion more than what was spent on the entire defence budget.

I am neither of the left wing nor the right but I do sometimes wonder about many people railing against so-called 'austerity' measures without taking into account rising national debt too.