Wall Street Journal writers Josh Zumbrun and Nick Timiraos published answers to several of their readers’ questions regarding the federal government’s debt. The following were two of the questions....

Wall Street Journal writers Josh Zumbrun and Nick Timiraos

published answers to several of their readers’ questions

regarding the federal government’s debt. The following

were two of the questions. Write a brief response to each

question.

a. Why is government debt different from mine?

b. How important is it to pay off this debt?

Source: Josh Zumbrun and Nick Timiraos, “Q&A: What the $18

Trillion National Debt Means for the U.S. Economy,” Wall Street

Journal, February 1, 2015.