Yes, but the USA also has a GDP that is almost equal with the national debt, a GDP with the value of 19 trillion. So craftking178 is actually right; the USA is the richest country in the world if you look at GDP. It does have a huge debt, but so do other countries:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html
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Lesson of the day: Please look at other figures and numbers before discarding people and their ideas :3
i know but here is the problem, when they will actually have to pay the debt......
RN america is not actually a rich country, its a country where many rich people lives in.
america's debt is around 20 tril$
america Importers goods that worth arounf 1.22 trill$ (which means -1.22 trill)
america Exporting in the worth of 0.78 trill$ (thats +0.78)
and the interest of the debt is.... shit, i cant find it
long story short, america starts with -20 trill$ and loose around -0.5 trill per year.
that makes them not so reach country

you ignore that by saying reach country you only need to look about one parameter which is how much money do the country own and ignore the fact that she will one day just delete it by saying shit like "its a debt of dead men and we dont need to pay it"
but its nice to see someone else who actually gives a crap about economy
Ye I'd love for your argument to be right but America is obscenely rich. It's pretty normal for countries to have large national debt and still be considered wealthy, as weird as that sounds.
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i know but here is the problem, when they will actually have to pay the debt......
RN america is not actually a rich country, its a country where many rich people lives in.
america's debt is around 20 tril$
america Importers goods that worth arounf 1.22 trill$ (which means -1.22 trill)
america Exporting in the worth of 0.78 trill$ (thats +0.78)
and the interest of the debt is.... shit, i cant find it
long story short, america starts with -20 trill$ and loose around -0.5 trill per year.
that makes them not so reach country
Debt can be restructured, and I'm pretty sure the loans given to the U.S. are quite flexible in terms of when they need to be repaid. The part about America not being a rich country but rather a country where many rich people live is half true I suppose. The wage gap is absurdly huge, and a lot of people live miserably, but if you're talking country per se then it means everyone, and when you even everything out it comes out pretty damn well.
In the US, the only "miserable" people are those who buy whatever they want. They have no understanding of what want is. As far as I'm concerned, I'm the richest man in the world. I don't need money and such to be fulfilled.

That's what it means to be an American, really, you have freedom to live as you do, and you can be happy with it. I know homeless who are happy, and rich who are completely miserable. I also know miserable poor and happy rich. You have the freedom
To have any outlook on life you want. Freedom to choose your view on life and what it means
I agree with the riches do not determine happiness part. Sorry, in Spanish "miserable" can mean extremely poor as well, so I just went with that. I meant that there is a huge disparity between the richest and the poorest in America.
This is true, but isn't it strange how language uses words like "desparity" and "miserable" for such things?
America is in debt for more than 20 trillion.
No, they are not rich.
Even though America can ignore all the debts because of their military force I guess that they won't do that because no one will loan them money.
Disparity means an absence of parity, or equality, so it's not that strange. Misery is a little weird, though not that hard to understand; Western society values money a lot.
I find it rather sickening. It's the plague to humanity, and the root of all evil