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Why is it that when politicians and Zippy talk about paying off a government debt, the default go-to answer is not to pay off that debt with existing cash, but Credit from someone else? I'll just use this credit card to make a payment on that credit card.
Does this sound like a Sustainable Financial Policy?
1776 > 1984
The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.
The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide
Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled
1776 > 1984
The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.
The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide
Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled
The regulatory burden is almost as large as the fiscal burden.
I think it might still be possible to "sneak" out of it, through extremely drastic deregulation, coupled with only modest/gradual spending cuts.
That should be any easier sell, but still politically impossible for the foreseeable future.
As we've discussed before in the context of South Africa, the political system will have to change before there can be any real economic reform.
I think at some point if we tried to sneak out of it we'd have a collapse, it just doesn't seem mathematically possible that we could come down from the 15-20 trillion in stimulus since the housing crisis without some sort of a crash. Unless somehow optimism from investors could counter that.
Anyway like you said, there's no chance of that happening. I work in the defense industry and pretty much everyone except me thinks we need to increase defense spending, even if it means compromising on other stuff. Everybody wants free stuff.
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GOP led small gummit is alive n kicking:
TRUMP SIGNS MONSTER SPENDING BILL...
BUDGET BLOWS INTO OBLIVION...
VOWS 'NEVER AGAIN'...
Congress Gives Self Bonus!
Planned Parenthood Gets $500 Million...
Lawmakers Had 1,000 Minutes to Read 2,232 Pages...
FLASHBACK: Ryan, McConnell LIE About Funding Border Wall...
Pelosi, Schumer declare victory...
FAKE VETO
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Bloated US Spending Bill Mostly for Militarism and Warmaking
The discretionary spending bill Trump signed into law on Friday excludes hundreds of billions of dollars in military related spending, enormous classified amounts for CIA, NSA and other intelligence community black budgets, along with add-on appropriations to come for US operations in multiple war theaters.
America spends over $1.5 trillion annually for militarism, warmaking, maintaining its global empire of bases, highly classified intelligence operations, and related expenses, most of it over and above annual appropriation bills. …
$20 trillion in national debt was reached last September 8 – $21 trillion 186 days later … “you haven’t seen nothin’ yet.” …
Most discretionary US federal spending goes for militarism, raping and destroying countries, corporate welfare including rewarding banksters, and police state harshness, the nation militarized against its own people …
Stockman believes massive annual deficits are as sure as daily sunrises, the “nation’s fiscal accounts…in free fall…for as far as the eye can see into the future” – a slow-motion “fiscal calamity…unfolding.” …
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From Drudge:
FEDERAL DEBT PRIMED TO EXPLODE...
Trillion-dollar deficits come roaring back...
The GOP tax plan means short-term gains for the economy, but federal debt is primed to explode, CBO analysis says
- The Congressional Budget Office forecast that the new tax law will generate an average of 0.7 percent growth over the decade and create 1.1 million jobs.
- However, larger budget deficits would crowd out private investment in later years, dampening economic growth.
- As a result, the CBO estimated the cumulative deficit over the next decade will be $1.6 trillion larger than previously projected. By 2028, the national debt would total 96 percent of GDP.
Ylan Mui | @ylanmui
Published 5 Hours Ago Updated 1 Hour Ago
CBO: Tax law will add $1.9 trillion to deficit over a decade 3 Hours Ago | 02:15
The Republican overhaul of America's tax code and increased government spending are projected to boost economic growth to 3.3 percent this year but push the national debt to nearly the same size as gross domestic product by 2028, according to government data released Monday.
The Congressional Budget Office forecast that the new tax law will generate an average of 0.7 percent growth over the decade and create 1.1 million jobs. It also predicted the two-year federal spending deal would increase GDP by 0.3 percent this year and 0.6 percent in 2019. However, larger budget deficits would crowd out private investment in later years, dampening economic growth.
As a result, the CBO estimated the cumulative deficit over the next decade will be $1.6 trillion larger than previously projected. By 2028, the national debt would total 96 percent of GDP.
"Such high and rising debt would have serious negative consequences for the budget and for the nation," the CBO report said.
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Too many evolutions going on lately:
Former Speaker John Boehner: Deficit will be 'No. 1 issue' in six months
- John Boehner warned that the normalization of interest rates would have a whipsaw effect on the deficit.
- The former speaker supported GOP tax cuts and blamed a lack of entitlement reform for the expanding deficit.
- He said failure to balance the budget had to be Paul Ryan's "biggest disappointment."
James Thorne Published 23 Hours Ago
Former Speaker John Boehner: Deficit will be 'number one issue' in six months 20 Hours Ago | 01:51
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner said that the U.S. government deficit would become the No. 1 political issue in about six months.
"As interest rates continue to get to a normal level, it's going to have a huge whipsaw effect on the deficit," Boehner told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street."
Boehner voiced support for the tax cuts but lamented President Donald Trump's decision to maintain spending on entitlements. "I have to believe it's Paul Ryan's biggest disappointment as speaker," he said. "Paul Ryan had a plan to balance the budget over 10 years."
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US budget deficit expands to $779 billion in fiscal 2018 as spending surges
- The federal budget deficit rose 17 percent in fiscal 2018, according to the Trump administration.
- Spending jumped, and revenue only increased slightly following the GOP tax cuts.
- The Trump administration has pushed for dramatic budget cuts at several agencies and supported massive increases in military spending.
Jacob Pramuk
Published 2 Hours Ago Updated 1 Hour Ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/us-b...ng-surges.html
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Since this thread was started, the debt has increased by $597 billion.
That's equivalent to $1,037 billion per year.
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I thought debt would decrease under GOP cut-spending/small gummit regime:
Saturday, March 17, 2018
National debt hits $21 trillion
That was quick $1Trillion jump:
Debt ceiling will be set to record high of $22 trillion, fund government to just summer
by Paul Bedard
| November 08, 2018
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...to-just-summer
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Dose Ted Cruz know about this and doing anything to stop this?
Household debt hit a record high of $13.5 trillion last quarter
Total household debt is now $837 billion higher than its previous peak, which was in 2008 before the recession.
The Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington.Kevin Lamarque / Reuters file
Nov. 16, 2018
By Reuters
The total debt shouldered by Americans has hit another record high, rising to $13.5 trillion in the last quarter, while an unusual jump in student-loan delinquencies could provide another signal that the nation's economic expansion is growing old.
Flows of student debt into serious delinquency — of 90 or more days — rose to 9.1 percent in the third quarter from 8.6 percent in the previous quarter, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
It was a reversal after a period of improvement for student debt, which totaled $1.4 trillion. Such delinquency flows have been rising on auto debt since 2012 and on credit card debt since last year, which could raise a red flag for economists.
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This pic is a few years old now so the current situation is even worse, but it still captures the scenario.
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This will not end well.
Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
Yeah but we need to spend more before we can spend less - @dannno
To be devil's advocate, it can be called investing in future of childrens.
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The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
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