It is not dollars, treasuries, bonds and debt that is being sold by your government. It is you.

You have probably heard confusing phrases like the trade deficit, the falling dollar, the national debt, unfunded liabilities and so on, which all sound vague and actuarial and vaguely - well, "not me."

In the future, our children will ask why we knelt and cheered as they were sold on the auctioneer's block.

This video should be the answer to your child.