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To the Editor:

Regardless of which political party you support, all of us should have real concern for the expanding national debt. An eye opening article appeared in Monday’s Minneapolis Tribune. In it the current national debt figures were shown to be $7,442,486,001,563.20 and counting. If that doesn’t grab your attention, then how about the figures showing each family’s share which is $76,356!Our government is borrowing money from foreign countries, some of which are not friendly toward us. Interest alone on our debts is cause for concern. Each of us can at last ask our government representatives to put fiscal restraint ahead of party politics.Dave HesselLuverne

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