Explain this statement: the most unlikely problem of the national debt is that the government will go bankrupt.

3 answers

Governments can print money; therefore they can't go bankrupt.
Governments can also raise taxes. Check this article.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080330/news_1b30marks.html
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/news/0901/gallery.money_summit/8.html