Debt doesn't rise linearly...just like "the magic of compounding" makes your saving rise exponentially...so does the debt. If nothing changes, Trump or Hillary will leave a debt of $30 trillion after just 4 years. We'll be paying over $1 trillion a year in interest payments.

So far...they just "print" what they need or get a "rich uncle" to buy more debt.

Don't worry about China, Japan, Russia, anyone "owning" our debt. It's JUST paper and numbers on a screen. A good world war changes all that.