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David Stockman: National Debt is Ticking Time Bomb (Video -$20 Trillion Debt Ceiling)
Wall Street Week ^ | Nov. 11, 2016 | Gary Kaminski and Anthony Scaramucci

Posted on 11/12/2016 7:14:14 AM PST by Son House

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To: Son House

With Trump spouting Truth, folks like Stockman have to admit he’s right in order to maintain a semblance of credibility...


21 posted on 11/12/2016 8:33:49 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Son House
“The legacy of the Reagan administration will be with us for years. The deficit under Reagan totaled more than a trillion dollars. Someday we’re going to have to pay those bills. As officials look to cut spending and taxes at the same time, we can’t afford another round of voodoo economics....I remember that campaign slogan one year ‘It’s morning again in America.’ Well, it may have been morning for some, but for a lot of people in this country it’s become a nightmare.” — CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley in an April 28, 1996 speech to Benedictine University in Illinois, aired May 11, 1996 on C-SPAN.

I wonder what old Ed would say about the $10T of Obama debt? Probably, it was needed to fight those white devils?

22 posted on 11/12/2016 9:07:55 AM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Son House

Yes, and what does he propose that we do about it?


23 posted on 11/12/2016 9:10:59 AM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: spintreebob

You are right about all your ideas above, but we still have to cut government spending. That is going to be the rub because the GOP has shown no inclination to cut a dime.


24 posted on 11/12/2016 9:11:02 AM PST by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
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To: Son House

Didn’t this buffoon advise all his clients to get out of the market before Trump got elected? Didn’t he predict a 25% crash or something like that?

Experts are generally the stupidest people on the planet. They are no more reliable than the psychic in the strip mall.


25 posted on 11/12/2016 9:11:42 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: lewislynn
Reminded of debate: CLINTON: "So what I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down." and
"We’ll have what economists call middle-out growth."

How about when Clinton was trying to sell Utopian economics? Missing any opposition.

One more, those protester should have been be protesting this debt mess their going to have to pay off, well the ones who choose to join the productive....

26 posted on 11/12/2016 9:12:13 AM PST by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: BRL
Back to deficits matter again

Yup, that's my reaction to this article too.

27 posted on 11/12/2016 9:13:41 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Gaffer

[$6 Trillion]

I was under the impression it was more like $8 Trillion - close to $9 Trillion by the time he leaves office.

Anyone? Bueller?


28 posted on 11/12/2016 10:13:55 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Son House
I saw a promo for a show on FAUX business that, at a time of a record stock market, is asking what are the investors going to do about "the fallout"? And Stockman is going to be on it.

With the exception of watching Lou Dobbs I don't watch Fox so I don't know if it's a new show but I do know I've never seen Stockman so many times in less than a week.

And so the Trump bashing at FAUX begins again with fresh new faces

29 posted on 11/12/2016 10:27:11 AM PST by lewislynn (Ryan is the other half of the reason Romney got creamed by a negro with a Nobel)
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To: Son House

There is a very interesting way to decrease the national debt or at least slow it down significantly. If we had a 5% growth rate it would need about $1T per year increase in the money supply. The Fed could buy up $1T per year. The interest from the FED owned debt goes back to the treasury minus a small handling fee.


30 posted on 11/12/2016 10:30:49 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: volunbeer

re: the GOP has shown no inclination to cut a dime

Not all GOP are the same.

Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Perdue in my GA will vote to cut spending on many things...and to eliminate entire agencies from the budget.

The House Freedom Caucus will cut. Many outside the Freedom Caucus will cut some programs, but not as many as the Freedom Caucus wants to cut.

The real problem is the Hatch-Corker-McConnell-Sasse types in the Senate.

We need to grow the Freedom Caucus. The best way to do that is to replace Dems in MO, IN, OH, MT, WV, FL, etc with not just Republicans, but with Freedom Caucus Republicans.

The big mistake is for Freedom Caucus supporters to fight each other because they didn’t all support Trump from day 1.


31 posted on 11/12/2016 11:04:44 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: Son House

Obama talked about Bush driving the economy into a ditch, but he drove it off a cliff, and I really felt that we passed the point of no return a couple of years after he took office.

When interest rates begin to rise, the deficit will get even worse due to the interest owed one all the debt. The first years of Regan’s term were very painful and our debt was tiny compared to this, I shudder to think what this will be like.

Be ready for it to get worse before it gets better, especially if Stockman is right about the long-in-the-tooth economy.

Changes will either be made, or the problem will take care of itself. Just realize that a large part of the National Debt includes programs like Social Security which is owed to Americans.

FDR took care of his problem by confiscating the gold, and once it had been collected, the currency was devalued, and lost about 40% of the buying power, which hurt Americans.

My grand parents saved Silver Dollars after that, in case of further devaluation.


32 posted on 11/12/2016 8:40:39 PM PST by greeneyes
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a large part of the National Debt includes programs like Social Security which is owed to Americans

Social Security funds have been squandered when it shouldn't have been accessed by Congress.

33 posted on 11/13/2016 4:40:02 AM PST by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: Son House

It’s way beyond Social Security - most funds have been squandered by Congress, and the American people should have never been subject to an income tax or property tax. Payroll taxes, are just another form of income tax - the original name was for Old Age Survivors and Disability tax (now called social security).

The program was set up to provide - Insurance-not retirement. The excess paid in is “invested” in non-negotiable Treasuries - so called trust fund, and becomes part of the National Debt.

Whenever the outgo exceeds the amount paid in, the Treasury Department “liquidates” a few of the non-negotiables to cover the shortfall. When the rates were raised, and retirement age raised, and a surplus was coming in, it was changed from an off-budget item to an on budget item, so that the budget deficit appeared to be reduced.

It’s all smoke and mirrors with Washington DC. I think a good way to conceptualize it is that they have a bunch of charge cards. One is the one used for Social Security, another for Medicare, and so forth, only instead of Master Card, the American people are the ones the debt is owed to.

Just like MasterCard, we have paid for whatever Congress has purchased, but soon they will not even be able to pay the interest on the debt, let alone the principal. They have actually been defaulting on that debt by printing money which devalues the dollar, and has the same effect as huge tax increase, since the money available for discretionary purchases goes down, and eventually even necessities become difficult to afford.

Well, anyway, I have a feeling that we passed the point of no return, during the Obama Administration, and whatever crash is coming, will likely happen during the Trump Administration, and Pubbies will get the blame. Hope I am wrong.

The best way to impact health care costs, is get rid of the “diseases of civilization” which are so related to unhealthy eating-the USDA pyramid is NOT healthy eating. What is used to make Beef fat? GRAINS. Is it a shock that if people eat 6-11 servings of grains per day, they get fat and develop diseases?

We are subsidizing things like corn and wheat - this is refined into the “processed” foods which gives everyone something cheap to eat and sugar or HFCS is added to make it palatable, along with chemicals to make it shelf stable. Then people get sick due to improper
diet, and they tax us to provide medical care. Vicious cycle.

Sorry for the rant.


34 posted on 11/13/2016 12:48:38 PM PST by greeneyes
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