You pay $20,000 annually in taxes. Your share of the national debt is 2,300% higher.

Photo above - Biden just gave away $1 billion to "save the rainforest". Your share was only $3 bucks. But your share of the national debt is $323,000, and counting.

If you’re into doom-scrolling, you should visit the US National Debt clock regularly. (Link at bottom).

The "average taxpayer” pays $14,600 a year in personal income taxes to DC. And when you add in state income taxes, real estate tax, sales tax and all the other government nuisance fees, it’s another $5,000. You’d think $20,000 a year per person would be enough.

But the federal debt is $323,000 per taxpayer. Which we are told isn’t a problem. However, our personal debt (credit cards, auto loans, mortgages, etc) are $25,000 a person. Financial pundits scream that $25.000 IS a problem: everybody please stop using your credit cards, stop ordering stuff from Amazon, and stop going to Starbucks!

But the national debt – per person – is more than 10 TIMES as high as what your personal debt is. "No problemo".

Of course, pretending we shouldn't worry about $36 trillion (going up by $1 million a minute) is complete BS. This should be THE question all candidates for office have to answer, and all nominees for cabinet posts. If someone can’t get question #1 right, maybe the interview is over. "Sorry, we've decided to go in a different direction, with a better skill set. Thank you for applying."

In case you’re still not convinced, please note that the INTEREST alone on the national debt is $20,000 a year per adult. Even if the government froze all OTHER spending, those interest payments would cause the debt to keep soaring.

Of course, there is absolutely NO plan to freeze spending. American dodged a shutdown in December with some shady hocus pocus, which the White House instantly signed. But there's a new “out of money” shutdown looming. It's January 14th.

There will be a new congress sworn in by that date. Most of whom will be the same politicians who've have been telling us for years that the national debt is not a problem. Because they understand us completely – we don't like to think about money. With our 5th grade average school skills, we can't even balance our own checkbooks, and we live paycheck to paycheck.

On January 14th I’m sure another "emergency fix" will be sent to Biden to sign. He will still be president, because Trump doesn’t get inaugurated until a week after January 14th. But Trump probably would sign it too. At no point in HIS campaign did Trump tell us that the National Debt is a problem.

Why did we even bother voting? Both of these senile geezers are the same when you scratch the surface.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time