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‘Doomsday Clocks’ Likely Needed Before Congress Hikes Debt Limit (Difficult Questions With $31.5 TRILLION in Federal Debt And A Staggering $173.6 TRILLION in UNFUNDED LIABILITIES (Social Security, Medicare, Etc.))
Confounded Interest ^ | 01/13/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders

Posted on 01/13/2023 4:31:37 AM PST by Kaiser8408a

Its that time again when Congress does its Kabuki Theater drama about raising the US debt limit. Of course, everyone in Congress and the Biden Administration want to spend trillions of dollars so they will hike the debt limit.

With the US government facing the danger of a payments default later this year, Congress has a variety of paths to avert economic disaster and boost the debt ceiling.

All of them would likely involve going right up to the market-rattling brink, according to current and former lawmakers and aides.

The timeline kicks off within weeks, when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is expected to advise that the government will deploy extraordinary accounting measures to avoid running out of cash. Those steps are forecast to be exhausted after July.

Nothing has been the same since the financial crisis of 2008 and the ascension of all-time big spender Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker. Budget deficits have never been the same. The last budget surplus was under House Speaker Newt Gingrich. But since the financial crisis of 2008, Federal spending seems to have increased its trajectory.

Note that mandatory spending (Medicare, Social Security, etc) is growing like a wild fire while discretionary spending is seemingly flat. So, it mandatory spending that Congress will pretend to cut.

Yes, it is Medicare for our aging population that has blown out of control.

Then we have defense spending. The Ukraine spending should come from this pot, but forces decisions to make between Ukraine and taking care of our Navy (to compete with the growing Chinese navy).

Of course, as The Fed fights inflation, we are seeing the COST of Federal debt soaring since Covid.

And the US is facing, in addition to $31.5 TRILLION in debt, a whopping $173.6 TRILLION in UNFUNDED LIABILITIES (Social Security, Medicare, etc).

(Excerpt) Read more at confoundedinterest.net ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; blogpimp; debt; deficit; fed; inflation; retread
Biden that corrupt traitor. But McConnell/Pelosi are destroying the country too.
1 posted on 01/13/2023 4:31:37 AM PST by Kaiser8408a
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To: Kaiser8408a; dpetty121263

(And the US is facing, in addition to $31.5 TRILLION in debt, a whopping $173.6 TRILLION in UNFUNDED LIABILITIES)

As I’ve mentioned here several times.

We’re now over $205 trillion dollars in debt

Hello Weimar Republic

or... more likely (IMHO).....

A New World Order with all nations merging their digital currencies into a Global Digital Currency


2 posted on 01/13/2023 4:37:48 AM 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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To: Kaiser8408a

Starting with Reagan, nobody really cared about the debt. Every president and congress deserve blame. But that doesn’t get us anywhere.


3 posted on 01/13/2023 4:42:31 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: SaveFerris

One word answer: NESARA.

All along, only interest has been paid on this debt. We’re not paying a dime in principle back, ever. And, soon stop paying the interest as well. The system was DESIGNED to never pay principle.

The FED is a fraud. The IRS is a fraud.


4 posted on 01/13/2023 5:01:04 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: napscoordinator

We need PDJT very badly...his roaring economy and bidgeting put all of those problems begh9nd us, until America accepted the Big BIden Cheat....how do you like the Cheat now America?


5 posted on 01/13/2023 5:01:41 AM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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To: C210N

I had to look that one up


6 posted on 01/13/2023 5:48:44 AM 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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To: Kaiser8408a
During the China Virus hysteria, the government sent me a check for $1200 (I think). I didn't need it. Why the heck did they send it to me? I mean we all need money, but I was not in a situation where I needed to be "rescued".

That was one of the worst policy decisions the government ever made. Now those chickens have come home to roost.

7 posted on 01/13/2023 5:55:49 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: SaveFerris

Surely all of those “experts” at the World Economic Forum can figure this out.


8 posted on 01/13/2023 6:06:36 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox

I’m sure they have ‘a plan ‘


9 posted on 01/13/2023 6:26:43 AM 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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To: Kaiser8408a; All
I. The NWO China Model Global Reset solutions are:II. New American solutions are:

1. Debt Reduction

2. Constitutional Amendments 3. Technology service 4. Education and Training Notes:
1. (1a) FD defined as any borrowed debt from existing Federal Reserve source subsequently loaned to US Treasury.
2. (2d) Preeminence of Treasury defined as no lending source to exist above the US Treasury, i.e. Treasury may not borrow or receive borrowed funds.
3. (2f)(iii) Preeminence of Sheriffs - State County Sheriffs are sole enforcers under this section.
4. (4a)(iii) All matters of education measured by comport with respective State Constitutions.

THE ABOVE AMERICAN LIST IS NOT REALIZABLE UNTIL THE ELECTION SYSTEM IS INVESTIGATED AND FRAUD PERPETRATORS ARE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. THEREFORE, PROPOSED AMERICAN SOLUTIONS ARE SECONDARY TO ELECTION REFORM.

10 posted on 01/13/2023 8:11:11 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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