The US Empire is Over

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The bottom is now dropping out of the entire Entitlement System and Unfunded Liabilities: The SS "Trust Fund" for example is going to be out of money by 2032. Leaving 6 years optimistically to form Commissions, Schedule Hearings, and study what's been obvious for Decades.


Jason Fichtner the former chief Economist of the Social Security Administration, spent years inside the building watching the Program's Finances deteriorate.

According to the latest Annualized report from Social Security's own Trustees, the program's main Trust Fund will be empty by 2032. Incoming Payroll Taxes cover only 78% of Benefits, meaning an automatic 22% cut for every Retiree and Disabled who probably wont survive, and their Families won't be able to care for or support them due the instinct of 'Survival of the Fittest'.

Fichtner told CNBC that the real deadline has nothing to do with 2032, because the Bond Market will move first. He said that well before 2032,“the Bond Market looks and says, ’Well, you guys have 12 months to get your act in order; you’re going to be looking for another $600-plus Billion a year,” which is why, “Fiscal strain could come earlier than Trust Fund depletion.”

Cutting Grandma's, Grandpa's, Auntie's, and Uncle's check by 22% overnight is guaranteed Electoral Suicide in US Politics, They'll desperately borrow the difference. Fichtner and Economist Veronique de Rugy calculate filling the gap means roughly $600 Billion in new borrowing, growing to about $700 Billion a year by 2036.

That money doesn't appear out of thin air. The Treasury borrows from the same pool of Savings that everyone else uses, the pool that funds Mortgages, Car Loans, and Business Investment. When the world's largest borrower suddenly demands another $600 Billion, the price of money shoots up.

Markets are forward-looking. An Investor buying a 10-year Treasury today is holding paper that matures years after the Trust Fund runs dry, the question of whether Congress will fix Social Security is already priced into that Bond. Investors won't wait politely until the checks shrink. They will reprice the moment Congressional inaction is locked in.

Inaction is the base case. Nine months into Fiscal year 2026, the Federal Deficit has already reached $1.4 Trillion according to the Congressional Budget Office. Meanwhile, the Lenders who would've funded this new borrowing are backing away.

The Dollar has fallen roughly 8% from its early 2025 peak. In March alone, Foreign holdings of US Treasuries fell by about $240 Billion, with Japan selling nearly $48 Billion and China unloading another $41 Billion. China's holdings now sit attheir lowest level since 2008. The single largest pools of Foreign Capital are quietly reducing their exposure to the very asset Washington needs them to buy more of. They are actively looking for the exits.

China’s alternative Fund-transfer Systems are increasingly used by sanctioned countries like Russia and Iran.

On July 9, the European Parliament voted 416 to 169 to push the Digital Euro into final negotiations, the stated goal is to reduce Europe's dependence on non-EU payment providers like Visa and Mastercard,which currently handle 61% of Card payments in the Eurozone. Europe no longer wants its money to be forced to move through American companies.

When France-based Airbus sells a jet to Air France, the price tag is in US Dollars. A French company selling to a French Airline, and the invoice is still written in Dollars.That’s the system Europe's Political Class just voted, by a two-to-one margin, to start engineering its way out of. Every step in that direction shrinks the pool of Foreigners needing Dollars, and fewer people needing Dollars means fewer buyers for US Government Debt.

The real deadline for the fallout from Social Security’s 2032 depletion is whenever the bond market decides Congress won't act. Higher Interest Rates arriving years ahead of schedule would hit a Bubble Economy that runs entirely on cheap Debt. The Government's Interest Bill, Corporate borrowing, Mortgages, the whole structure assumes money stays affordable. Foreign Lenders are already leaving.

Everyone will soon get an education about the The Entitlement System and the Unfunded Liabilities they were promised, Promises are a comfort to a Fool.

My understanding is that the fledgling USA during the Jefferson presidency didn’t have the military strength to take on Great Britain or France (or Spain for that matter) and wanted desperately to stay neutral during the European wars (napoleonic wars) — it had enough trouble dealing with pirates from Tripoli. Jefferson’s wish for peace was self serving and he later in life admitted that the USA had to be better prepared militarily because other nations aren’t always peaceably inclined.

It's a moving speech and worth looking into.
I agree with some, but not all. For example, the math is off a little !!
Thank you for posting this @Broache73 😊

The remarkable aspect throughout the American Plutocracy, is that the United States has some fictitious and Moral providential responsibility to make the "World Safe for Democracy". The US Citizenry aren't allowed real Democracy within our own Borders or Border Security, yet we have the audacity to want teach Others (who didn't ask) what Democracy is?! You really can't make this stuff up!

No one bothered to consider asking something very simple,

• What in God's name was the US Government doing facilitating a War Crime over in a Sovereign country that hadn't aggressed against or threatened the United States to begin with, without a Constitutional Declaration of War Authority?!

• How is it that One goes to fight for our Constitution when they're sent off by Incompetent Governing Elites (who bureaucratically want Power) to fight Criminal, Immoral, Illegal, Unconstitutional Wars for Oil, Wars of Aggression, and Wars of Attrition?!

• How is it that US Government Officials wants the rest of the American Taxpayers to fight Corporate Wars of Aggression, yet they steal and abrogate our Constitutional Rights within our own Borders?!

• Where was Donald Trump, Genocide Joe Biden, Dick Cheney, and their loved ones and friends when it was time to lay it on the line for the Horror in Vietnam and the Vietnam Style War in Iraq?!

I'm understand the Widows, our Sons and Daughters in Uniform since they're 'Collateral Damage' of the utter failure of the blood soaked Phony War on Terrorism. I understand the grieving Citizenry in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and elsewhere since they too are 'Collateral Damage' brought about by our mockery of a Government.

American Democracy is nothing more than a proverbial self-fulfilling prophecy.

1). In 1951, the Democratically-Elected Parliament of Iran elected a Man named Mohammad Mossadegh to be Iran’s Prime Minister. Mossadegh angered British Empire Officials by nationalizing British Oil interests. British Officials turned to the CIA for assistance. In 1953, the CIA secretly fomented a violent Coup D'Etat in Iran, which succeeded in ousting Mossadegh from power, making the Shah of Iran the supreme unelected Dictator of the country. To fortify the Shah’s dictatorial power, the CIA helped organize and train the his Domestic Police Force the Savak, essentially a combination of the CIA, NSA, and the Military. Part of the CIA’s training involved teaching Savak agents the art of Torture. For the next 26 years, the Iranian Citizenry suffered under the most brutal and Tyrannical Dictatorships in the World, one US Officials supported and called an Ally and Friend of the United States.

In 1979, Iranians successfully revolted against the Shah’s Regime and ousted him. One result wasn't a restoration of the Democratic System that had elected Mossadegh but rather another brutal Dictatorship, this time a religious one. Another result is the awful relations between the Iran and the United States Government that continues today.

2). In 1951, the Guatemalan Citizenry Democratically-Elected a Man named Jacobo Arbenz to be their President. Arbenz, however, wasn't satisfactory to the National-Security branch of the US Government, the Pentagon, and the CIA. The reason that US Officials opposed Arbenz was that he was a Socialist, and US Officials considered a Socialist President of Guatemala to be a threat to “National Security” of the United States.

In 1954 — One year after the Coup D'Etat in Iran, the CIA fomented a violent Military Coup D'Etat that succeeded in removing Arbenz from power and replaced him with one of the most brutal unelected Military Dictators in Latin American History, a Man named Carlos Castillo Armas. The CIA had a kill list prepared for the Coup, Arbenz was able to escape by fleeing the country before Castillo was able to get him. The CIA’s destruction of Guatemala’s Democratic System threw the country into a 30-year Civil War that killed Millions of Poor Guatemalan Citizenry.

3). In 1960 a Man named Patrice Lamumba was elected Congo’s first Prime Minister after Independence from Belgium. Lamumba spoke out against Western Imperialism and refused to take sides in the Cold War, the CIA to conclude that he was a threat to “National Security.” The CIA orchestrated the Assassination of Lamumba, which ended up taking place on January 17, 1961, just 3 days before President John F. Kennedy, who liked Lamumba and would've ordered the CIA to stand down, to be sworn in.

4). In 1970 a Man named Salvador Allende received a plurality of votes in the Presidential Election in Chile. Pursuant to the Chilean Constitution, the Election was thrown into the national Congress. President Richard Nixon, his National-Security Council, the Pentagon, and CIA concluded that because Allende believed in Communism and Socialism, he posed a grave threat to “National Security” to the United States. The CIA attempted to bribe Members of the Congress to vote against Allende. It also orchestrated the kidnapping of the head of Chile’s Armed Forces, Gen. Rene Schneider, who opposed a US Military Coup D'Etat in his country especially since it violated the country’s Constitution. The kidnapping attempt on Schneider left him dead. The CIA then fomented a Coup D'Etat that took place on 9/11/1973 that violently ousted Allende leaving him dead. Replacing him was Army Gen. Augusto Pinochet, one of the most brutal unelected Military Dictators in History. By the time Pinochet’s 17-year Reign of Military Terror came to an end in 1990, he and his CIA-supporters had Incarcerated, Raped, Tortured, or killed 10,000's — whose only “Crime” was believing in Socialism — with the full support of Richard Nixon, and the “National Security” Council.

Of course, the recent support of Regime-Change that ousted Democratically-Elected Presidents that the United States Government disapproved of, replaced by a brutal unelected Dictator.

Cuba...
Honduras...
Egypt...
Indonesia...
Iraq...
Afghanistan...
Libya...
Syria to name a few.

The Word has gotten out that our blood soaked War on Terrorism was nothing more than Militaristic boondoggles to serve the interests of AIPAC, the MEK, the Greater Israel Project, the Military Industrial Complex, and Corporate America. Our $39 Trillion Dollar Debt cesspool and our Phony Monopoly Money isn't worth the paper it's printed on and is the proof of this.

If it ever gets out that the United States Government cannot serve the needs of the American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers, The Electorate will certainly grieve they ever went along with these Crimes against Humanity, Crimes against the Peace, Torture, and War Crimes. I fear for American Voters and US Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines since they are NOW Sitting Ducks for the Blowback and Unintented Consequences that the United States Government has brought about.

this will be the way if and when we as you say are gone, because the Dragon will not only have ascended, but will breathe its fire…so when we’re gone…