Ahh someone who understands the numbers.
Get Congress to spend within their means? That’s a 2 Trillion spending cut (the total deficit), out of 6 Trillion, and 1 Trillion of that spending is interest on the debt. So a 2 Trillion cut is not out of 6 trillion, it is out of 5 Trillion. 40% of the budget.
Ain’t gonna happen.
This is why we get headlines of reporters who grab proposed plans (of about 2 weeks ago) to cut XX trillion from the deficit or spending or whatever OVER 10 YEARS.
It has all gone too far. There is no solution. It is papered over and has been for about 15 years. What is going to kill it all is the day our oil is essentially exhausted.
Russia’s won’t be. They have sooo much surface area. We will as to buy some. They will say they are willing to sell, but not for pieces of paper with ink on them.
“There is no solution.”
I have proposed a value added tax payable by corporations. At 8%, it would raise about $1.6 trillion/year.
Unincorporated businesses would be exempt. This exemption would keep prices from rising much in the service and housing rental sectors of the economy.
Your numbers ring true. Frankly, for me it was a struggle to even pose the questions I had.
Your bottom line rings true as well. If it’s Russia’s oil that’s the saving grace for the West’s future, I suppose WEF apparatchiks and other megalomaniacs think of their treachery over the West and into Russia as moves to save the West. They’re thinking that in baiting Russia to overreach it’s capabilities, the megalomaniacs can then barge into Russian lands to “secure” the future of the West. What saviors they are. The evil and probably horrific consequences of such a theft are the least of the WEF’s (etc.) concerns.
The WEF type people want to steal Russia’s oil. Trump wants to be on good terms with Russia to make deals:
For respectful Trump, maybe his moves are all to ultimately be in a favorable trading position, where deals can be made without being extorted and without useless destructive confrontations.
For his disrespectful detractors, their moves are probably to ultimately have possession and control by any means necessary, vicious deception or violent destruction, of any and all world resources they wish to lord over. “You will own nothing and you will be happy.”