There is an old joke about someone asking a lawyer, an accountant and a contractor what is the sum of two plus two. The accountant’s answer is four, the contractor answers three, as he will make up the difference in production or volume, and the lawyer asks what you would like it to be. No matter how hard you try, unless you are the government, two plus two is four. The U.S. debt is so large that if you stacked $100 bills, the stack would be higher than the diameter of the earth. Unfortunately, unlike the government, contractors cannot simply turn to the printing press and make more money.