T. Elliot Gaiser of The Heritage Foundation reports on a press conference in which Paul Ryan was joined by a group of concerned Millennials to denounce the debt their generation is on course to inherit.

Millennials: How the Debt Impacts Us (VIDEO)

The growing national debt demands immediate attention and real solutions from America’s elected leadership.

That was the message delivered yesterday by a group of young Americans at a press conference with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA).

“The greatest dysfunction of all is the fact that these young people standing here are facing a diminished future, no matter how you slice it,” said Ryan. “This isn’t a Republican issue. It’s not a Democrat issue. It’s a math issue.”

“Sixteen trillion dollars is a huge number, and individually, if you do the math, each of us are over a hundred thousand dollars in debt,” said Sohaani Perera, an attendee from College Park,Maryland.

“I’ve never even seen that much money in my life, and the idea of being that much in debt for something I’m not even responsible for – I feel penalized, and so does the rest of my generation,” she said.