 If you want to get a politician to change the subject, ask them how they're going to deal with the federal debt. That's what happened when I asked Vivek Ramaswamy what he would do to cut spending. He said he'd focus instead on super-charging the economy so that we can grow our way out of it. We've grown at more than four-plus percent GDP growth for most of our national history. If we get back to a three-handle, three-point something, actually most of those fiscal problems are completely gone. Since 1970, annual GDP growth has averaged 2.7 percent. So what happens if Ramaswamy becomes president and is actually able to unleash economic growth that pushes the U.S. economy to average 4 percent annual GDP growth for two full terms? Would most of our fiscal problems be completely gone? Not even close. The projected deficit would be cut almost in half, but the government would still be running red ink every year and the federal debt would just keep growing.