The websites that try to scare us by showing how quickly the national debt is growing are misleading because they are ignoring the fact that O nominal GDP is also growing rapidly and thus the ratio (national dethnominal GDP) is not changing as rapidly O at times of recessions, the national debt usually gets smaller 0 the Fed controls the money supply, so it can simply give the government money to pay back its debt whenever it is necessary 0 none of the above 0 government expenditures are also growing rapidly and thus the ratio (government expendituresMnational debt) is staying constant