The right answer to high debt isn't austerity. It's abundance.

Every morning, around 8:30 a.m., a staffer texts Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) with the current amount of the national debt. On Wednesday, the total crossed $30 trillion for the first time -- a number more than twice what it was when Republican Paul Ryan was predicting that the "debt crisis" would be the most important topic of the 2012 elections, and roughly six times what it was when President Bill Clinton declared that the era of big government was over. Yet here we are. We suffered the most sev...