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Debt crisis escalates: $34 trillion U.S. federal debt raises alarms as interest expense soars to unprecedented levels.
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 01/05/2024 2:45:07 PM PST by davikkm

In a concerning financial development, the total federal debt in the United States has surpassed a staggering $34 trillion. This milestone is accompanied by a troubling surge in debt accumulation over recent periods, including $1 trillion in the past 3 months, $2 trillion in the past 6 months, $4 trillion in the past 2 years, and a staggering $11 trillion in the past 4 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: crisis; debt; economy; usdebt
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1 posted on 01/05/2024 2:45:07 PM PST by davikkm
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Short term T-Bill rates are slightly sliding....


2 posted on 01/05/2024 2:48:21 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: davikkm
Debt-v-GDP


3 posted on 01/05/2024 2:50:03 PM PST by PGR88
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I joined the Tea Party when it was about $10 trillion thru the first 43 presidents. I can’t support Trump and his $7 trillion + increase in his four years. Time to end the cycle of dysfunction. DeSantis 2024.


4 posted on 01/05/2024 2:55:13 PM PST by Sparky1776
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To: davikkm

The spending binge makes it look like they are attempting to loot the Treasury before the inevitable collapse. Weimar Germany on deck.


5 posted on 01/05/2024 2:57:16 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: Sparky1776

Ramaswamy would be even better. He’s already put out a list of all the things he would close down his first day in office. DeSantis being a deep state puppet will do nothing. With him it will just be business as usual.


6 posted on 01/05/2024 3:01:26 PM PST by jimwatx
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(before the inevitable collapse)

That will surely happen IMHO.


7 posted on 01/05/2024 3:02:54 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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8 posted on 01/05/2024 3:04:38 PM PST by Theoria
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To: jimwatx

This is the same group of people huddled at the Wayne Falkland Hotel in Atlas Shrugged.


9 posted on 01/05/2024 3:08:39 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Sparky1776

Ron DeSantis has never worked outside government in his life. Electing that kind of dope to fix this problem is like hiring Ted Kennedy as the head of Alcoholics Anonymous.


10 posted on 01/05/2024 3:08:48 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Or, as your Uber driver!


11 posted on 01/05/2024 3:09:28 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Theoria

Good ol’ Ross. That giant sucking sound is the reasoni voted for him. I was right. Them jobs ain’t coming back


12 posted on 01/05/2024 3:12:14 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: Sparky1776

The DS will p0wn RdS way worse than they did/will Trump.

RdS will not be turning the Debt around. Ditch alone won’t let him do it.


13 posted on 01/05/2024 3:13:59 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: PGR88
Here’s how it “works out” …

Divide $34 trillion by the working population of the U.S. (about 162 million people) and you get an average debt of about $210,000 per person. For a married couple, that means carrying a $420,000 debt -- the equivalent of paying a mortgage but having no home to go with it.

If anyone is still wondering why the U.S. is allowing the entire Third World to come pouring across our borders, it's because we need to find tens of millions of people who are desperate or dumb enough to think this is a good deal.

14 posted on 01/05/2024 3:14:09 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Theoria

Thank-you...


15 posted on 01/05/2024 3:15:14 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: davikkm

No ones going to correct this, they will not be able to it doesn’t matter who is President, this mess is in part why the US will fail and fall, the gears are turning and cannot be stopped.


16 posted on 01/05/2024 3:15:41 PM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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I can tell you how this works out. See tag line.


17 posted on 01/05/2024 3:24:27 PM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Sparky1776

That’s a good joke.


18 posted on 01/05/2024 4:22:43 PM PST by JayGalt
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Everything will be fine, we won’t run out of money. I promise they will print more...


19 posted on 01/05/2024 4:25:59 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Alberta's Child

You forgot about the $120 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities


20 posted on 01/05/2024 4:29:06 PM PST by eyeamok
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