Auditor General owes public a report on national debt

They say ignorance can bring you untold bliss. Until disaster strikes. That’s what happens to folks attacked by their hearts out of the blue. Except heart attacks don’t just happen. Coronary heart disease is caused by plaque, the waxy substance that builds up in arteries, and chokes the supply of oxygen to the heart. When hardened plaque ruptures, a large blood clot can form and block the artery. The blood clot denies the supply of oxygen-rich blood to your heart. Then boom – a heart attack, or angina, occurs. Countries are very much like people – they can suffer a cardiovascular event. Look at Greece – it suffered an economic catastrophe that left it on a virtual deathbed.

But get this – Greece, like other so-called PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain – never saw it coming. One minute they were rolling in the money and living high on the hog. And then poof – it was all taken away. We can blame any number of factors for the collapse.