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America's Oncoming Financial and Economic Train Wreck

The United States blew past a Fiscal Nightmare of $35 Trillion in National Debt. That's $105,000 for every Individual and $270,000 for every Household. That Debt surged $2.3 Trillion over 12 months. That’s $6.4 Billion every single day, $266.7 Million an hour, and $4.44 Million a minute. A Quagmire of epic proportions.

Doug Casey and Others sounded the alarm about US Debt. Yet, Wall Street, the Corporate Media, Corrupt Politicians, and US Voters brushed it off. US Consumers are completely in the dark about our Real Crisis. The National Debt is construed as a distant thunderstorm — far off and abstract, rather than the storm right over their heads. You’re the ones who will be forced to Pay the Piper his due when he comes to collect. Did you know your Income Taxes were spent on interest on the National Debt last month?!

According to the latest monthly Statement of the US Treasury net interest expense was $81 Billion. That’s 43% of the $185 Billion the Government collected in Income Tax receipts.

Gross interest paid in June amounted to $140 Billion. That’s 76% of all Income Tax receipts. Simply put, 76 Cents of every Dollar you yourself paid in Income Tax in June went to Debt Interest. If that doesn’t give Taxpayers pause, God help them.

Net interest is the Interest paid on US Treasury Debt held by the Public, including both Domestic and Foreign sources. Gross interest includes Interest paid to US Government "Trust Funds" (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) and other Government accounts holding US Debt.

Every Dollar used to pay interest on the Debt is a Dollar taken from your wallet, your Bank Account, your Insurance Policy, your Reirement Account, and everything else you own/need and sent to Debt holders in Japan, China, and other Foreign Countries.

The US can’t just bank on Foreign Governments buying its Debt as they're De-Dollarizing. They already hold $8.1 Trillion of US Debt, not including Agency Debt.

Think about this from a Foreign Government’s Perspective: Would you be dumb enough to keep trusting a country that’s so irresponsible with its Finances to hold the bulk of your Reserves?!

Last year, Moody’s and Fitch Credit Agencies, downgraded their outlook on US Debt. The main reason they cited for the downgrade was, you guessed it, surging Interest payments.
Servicing the Debt is now the second-largest Budgetary Outlay. The United States spends more on interest payments than National Defense, Entitlements, and Welfare combined. How sustainable does anyone really think that is?!

It'd be Political Suicide for the Political Indentured Servants on Capitol Hill and State Capitols with their cannibalistic Corporate paymasters to admit the United States will default. They will; Bail Out the System devaluing the US Dollar. DEVALUE or DIE.

The Corporate Duopoly of Republicans and Democrats is hopelessly Corrupt. Those who look to Political Indentured Servant Legislators to solve their problems are complicit in their own throats being cut. The World Reserve Currency Status of the US Dollar is weaponized against Sovereign Countries and Citizenry to bring them to their knees is and has backfired terribly and horribly. Peace, Commerce, Honest Friendship, and Liberty🗽 is the only thing that'll mitigate the disaster of the US Government's Ponzi Scheme and the bursting of the US Bubble Economy. Time is running out!!!
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MarkPaul · 26-30, M
This is an over-exaggeration and misguided interpretation of events. Yes, there is debt, but debt fuels growth. This crazy school-girl notion that a country (or a company) should solely operate on revenue that comes in to "balance the checkbook" is about the dumbest thing promoted by morons who have no idea what makes nations (and businesses) strong and great in longevity.

This doesn't mean money should be wasted, but an Elon Musk testimony to slash programs to cut expense at a national level or a Project 2025 initiative to treat all government programs as discretionary is a sure road to immediate ruin. Fiscal responsibility does make sense. Living in fear over a credit downgrade is a fool's errand.

Use debt wisely and prosper... or suffer the consequences.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@MarkPaul No.. Just No.. While you COULD be right, if the government used the debt constrictively, using it to build Supercarriers and subsidize farmers and agribusiness so they dont have to compete is waste.. And that money is going to have to be paid back to people. A lot of whom dont like America,.😷
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exchrist · 31-35
@MarkPaul is the deficit building mindset making us less indebted. Pay it off start over. Never paying our debt off will ruin our credit too.
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@exchrist If "us" was an individual consumer, then that's solid and useful. Since "us" is a nation, that kind of advice is insane, destructive, and counter-productive.
exchrist · 31-35
@MarkPaul wrong endless spending even by a nation like the us is reckless and unsustainable. We have a gun pointed at our lenders. I hope those lenders simply stop lending. That will make America finally deal with reality. Instead the us is an unruly child on the world stage.
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exchrist · 31-35
@MarkPaul and u continue to believe that america will ever pay that debt. Try being an adult. America is refusing to. End of story.
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@exchrist And, you continue believe debt has no place in financing the future. Try learning about the world instead of choosing to be a schoolgirl with no serious idea about how the world works.
exchrist · 31-35
@MarkPaul i believe in not making regular payments americas credit score has tanked. At the same time its creditors are fed up and out of money. Thats how credit works. America needs to pay its debt or face the debt collector. Instead america buys so many weapons assuming it can scare the debt collectors away. Thats alot of bad karma though. And has resulted in very much understandable attacks against America.
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