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US National Debt closing in on $16.9 trillion
www.usdebtclock.org ^ | August 13, 2013 | www.usdebtclock.org

Posted on 08/13/2013 9:27:25 AM PDT by Starboard

Today's US National Debt Clock status.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: nationaldebt
National debt is currently at $16.899T and rapidly closing in on $16.9.

Note especially the bottom line on this page. US unfunded liabilities are $125 trillion which equates to a liability of more than $1 million per taxpayer!

1 posted on 08/13/2013 9:27:25 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

...and the legal limit is blown through without any complaint from Congress.


2 posted on 08/13/2013 9:30:14 AM PDT by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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It will be fine...if it exceeds one hundred eleventy billion, then start panicking.


3 posted on 08/13/2013 9:43:02 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: alancarp

Congress will look to kick the can down the road yet again. They’re good at doing things like that. Not so good at taking any decisive action (e.g., refuse to fund Obamacare) to help reduce this crushing debt load.

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once said that our debt is the biggest threat to U.S. national security.


4 posted on 08/13/2013 9:44:05 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard
Note especially the bottom line on this page. US unfunded liabilities are $125 trillion which equates to a liability of more than $1 million per taxpayer

So what. We all got our six-pack & latest TV & IPOD & now free health care & our free public school education (indoctrination). Life is great & y'all want to ruin it with a silly ole debt thing.

5 posted on 08/13/2013 9:47:51 AM PDT by Digger
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To: Digger

Let the good times roll! :)


6 posted on 08/13/2013 9:56:21 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

A trillion inches will go 636 times around the earth !!!??? Stop spending stoopid..


7 posted on 08/13/2013 12:25:27 PM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not just selectively for Democrats.)
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To: Starboard

” Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once said that our debt is the biggest threat to U.S. national security.”

AMNESTY is the biggest threat to U.S. national security, as it will balloon our debt by as much as 30% in 5 years.


8 posted on 08/13/2013 12:30:44 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: Starboard

Get a grip!

The true total soverign debt of the US is around 250 trillion.


9 posted on 08/13/2013 12:34:33 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

The true total soverign debt of the US is around 250 trillion.
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Your estimate may well be closer to the truth, but at some point, says $100 trillion or more, does it really matter as the idea of paying down even this amount of debt becomes laughable. We’ve already jumped the shark.


10 posted on 08/13/2013 12:45:17 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

There has never been any intention to pay down any debt. The debt will be used as a means to steal the personal wealth of the common man, by levying a tax on that wealth to secure the debt.

That has always been the plan.


11 posted on 08/13/2013 12:55:02 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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US debt clock turned to $16.9T today.

Nothing but crickets from Republicans.


12 posted on 08/14/2013 1:09:51 PM PDT by Starboard
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