Posted on 11/21/2025 9:15:23 AM PST by Whatever Works
Just a running arithmetic commentary on where we are.
(Excerpt) Read more at usdebtclock.org ...
Tax and enslave. We could pay it down every year but, WASTE-FRAUD-ABUSE. Stop & reverse the clock.
Arrogance and ignorance. Like all great nations that fell apart, we think it can't happen to us.
Those bleating about "affordability," don't realize that currency debasement is at the root of it. Trump relaxes tariffs on bananas, but spends like a madman.
Stealing foreign deposits over the Ukraine sh*thole was bad too. Investors no longer see the dollar as safe, and nations look for alternatives.
Having too much of something people don't want makes it less valuable.
“We can never pay this off.”
If we just make interest payments and balance the budget inflation will reduce the effective debt.
Trump’s BBB is projected to provide a several trillion dollar surplus over ten years.
“but spends like a madman”
Examples, please.
That is 38,000 BILLION DOLLARS in DEBT!.............
I still hear people refer to US T-bills as a safe investment, even as the ratings on them slide. Not only are they not safe, buying government debt is like a bartender plying the town drunk with alcohol, knowing full well he’s about to drive past a grade school as it lets out. In this case the students being the generation yet unborn that is being saddled with the debt through no fault of their own. It’s sick that people keep buying federal T-bills and bonds to keep growing this monster.
There is one problem in fixing this, the uniparty congress who got to this point the last couple of decades. The only question remaining is what year The Great Collapse is going to happen or what dollar amount.
Arrogance and ignorance. Like all great nations that fell apart, we think it can't happen to us
What's even scarier? We're too ignorant to realize it's already happened, and we're currently in freefall.
I wish it was only $38 BILLION!
Perhaps a good weekly post.
You are off by a factor of 1,000.
1000 billion is a trillion, in the United States. The UK is different.
So 38 Trillion would be 38 thousand billion.....
Yes, that is a factor of 1,000. How is the uk different?
Not so much now, but previously they defined a trillion differently that in the US..................
Ok, I see how it was put. You only hear it put as trillions, not 1,000 billion.
Examples, please.
Do you actually read stuff here on FR, or just skip to comments?
$4 trillion on The Big Beautiful Budget Buster - $113 billion more on defense. 65% increase in GWB's Dept. of Homeland Security. Several hundred billion, this year, on the upcoming $2k handouts.
We'll start with these TRILLIONS, and not bother with his spendy first term - when he spent 3.6 trillion on COVID "relief" alone.
A few trillion here and there starts to add up.
DOGE only did a recission of $43B so far. There is no saving there.. They are just identifying old corrupt payments. Vance should be working on recission packages 24/7. What is he doing?
Jekyll Island 1913.
There used to be a guy on talk radio, now passed on, that never used ‘trillion’ as a numerical term, but always used ‘thousand billion’ to emphasize how big a trillion actually was............
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