Posted on 05/28/2026 10:01:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For decades, politicians in Washington have paid lip service to “fiscal responsibility” as they practice fiscal irresponsibility on a scale unprecedented in American history. The national debt of the United States has now climbed beyond $35 trillion, a number so large that it has ceased to register emotionally with most citizens. Yet numbers do not lose their consequences simply because they become difficult to imagine. A trillion dollars is a thousand billion dollars. Thirty-five trillion dollars represents obligations so enormous that future generations may spend much of their lives paying for promises made long before they were old enough to vote.
What is particularly remarkable is not merely the size of the debt, but the normalization of it. Politicians announce deficits in the hundreds of billions as casually as a family discusses grocery expenses. News reports treat another trillion added to the debt as routine political weather. Meanwhile, the same people who lecture ordinary Americans about budgeting, sustainability, and sacrifice routinely spend money the government does not possess.
No household can survive indefinitely by spending more than it earns. No business can remain solvent by perpetually borrowing to finance daily operations. Yet somehow, we are expected to believe that the federal government alone has discovered a magical exemption from economic reality. It has not.
The laws of economics do not disappear because politicians vote against them.
For years, America enjoyed advantages that concealed the danger. The U.S. dollar served as the world’s reserve currency. Foreign governments eagerly purchased Treasury bonds. Interest rates remained relatively low. These conditions allowed Washington to postpone consequences that would have arrived swiftly in less fortunate nations. But postponing consequences is not the same thing as eliminating them.
Already, interest payments on the national debt consume staggering amounts of federal revenue.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That is not financial management. It is the fiscal equivalent of using one credit card to pay another. Families attempting such a strategy are usually described as headed toward bankruptcy.
Then of course, there’s always the fact that most of the $35,000,000,000,000 is a product of fraud.
And fraud vitiates everything.
Cc: Federal Reserve
The biggest problem we face is the Boomer generation.
It’s the greediest generation in U.S. history.
And that includes BoomerCons. All they ever seem to care about is their bank accounts. If their accounts go up, who cares if everything else is burning down. They’re fiddling while Rome burns.
In places where you see large concentrations of BoomerCons are usually where you see the strongest strongholds of GOP Establishment entrenchment. The kinds of left wing republicans we can never seem to get rid of.
It’s the Boomers. Their greed is killing this country. Moreso Democrat Boomers than Republicans but it would be a lie to exclude any part of that horrifically greedy generation.
All of the GenZ conservatives I’ve come to know of have a very heightened hatred of the greed focused on the Boomers. The GenZ feel that their lives have been siphoned by the Boomers.
The GenZ are not entirely incorrect.
The Boomers no longer own the majority of houses on my Florida street.
Yep, it’s all my fault, and I will gladly take the blame for creating a business and working 60-80 hours a week for 40 plus years to get where I am now, retired and living very comfortably, but hey I am going to sell one of my paid for houses cuz I have too many already
“Thirty-five trillion dollars represents obligations so enormous that future generations may spend much of their lives paying for promises made long before they were old enough to vote.”
It is the older folks holding CDs and bonds that will get screwed.
The younger folks will inherit many of the devalued dollars.
Maybe millions of younger folks will get enough to buy a wheelbarrow.
You,
Being the exception to the rule,
Does not change the rule.
I am not the first person on FR here to talk about the greed that exists among the Boomers. I probably am more brave than most though to extend it those of the BoomerCons.
And just so its said, the greed of the Boomers and the current national debt is simply the national manifestation of this cultural rot.
“...take the blame for creating a business and working 60-80 hours a week for 40 plus years to get where I am now...”
And that’s the point. Even with this great weight on the government to pay the bills they created for crap that has nothing to do with prosperity, personal success is still within reach. Yeah, it’s hard work...but attainable.
Problem is that our government spends more than it has to give things away. Stop them, and you stop the debt in time. And don’t let them cross the streams.
I worked a job for 35 years where I was on call 24/7 and was called a lot. But I, also, am quite comfortable and do what I wish now. And my kids and grandkids will be getting a good stipend when I’m gone. And it is my choice to do it, not Uncle Sugar’s.
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It has always been attainable and still is today. Most people by their very nature are comfortable being average, but never wanted to be that guy. I am different I suppose, I wanted more and never wanted to struggle again, so I worked my ass off and made it happen. My dauhter and grandkids are going to be pretty well off when we die. She is on the same road I was on and is doing very well for herself already.
Show us on the doll where Boomers hurt you. Retirees hanging on to wealth and property is their prerogative.
I'm Gen X, and I worked hard to amass a comfortable retirement. But I would like to hear you expand on what constitutes boomer "greed" in your mind.
We should stop giving money to 177 countries, that’d be a good start.
Who does?
My stock portfolio has more than doubled these past five years.
Not sure what that has to do with our national debt.
Didn’t know that investing in America constituted greed.
“Who does?”
Mainly younger people aged mid-20s to mid-40s.
One Boomer guy owns two rentals, one a single family and other as rooms rented out. The roomers I spoke to don’t like him, but he’s always been pleasant to me.
I own a house and older snowbirds own the one to my south and my older Democratic leftists own the one to the West.
An older couple from Maryland owns one and another couple bought one about 25 years ago.
A police commander owns the one furthest east.
Boomers own 9 of 21.
I’m so tired of all this generational divisive stuff.
As a proud Gen-Xer, I too worked my ass off for decades. Saved and invested from every paycheck. Retired at 55yo some years ago.
That’s my choice and my life. My bosses and supervisors were always Boomers. That’s okay. That’s their choice and their life.
My last job was working for the Department of the Army. I was surrounded by 60-80+ year olds, the supervisors. My light bulb turned on when I would go to take a leak and an oldster was dumping his colostomy bag in the stall next door from the urinal.
We had at least one Boomer that died at his desk sometime Friday night and was found Monday morning.
That’s okay if that’s what you want. I decided that my last years would be on my terms. While I’m still healthy enough to travel, spend time with my family, spend time with God.
Once I saw 70-80 year old Boomers coming to the office, dying every day, I felt sorry for them. Is it duty? Obligation? Power? Money? Longevity? Control? I dunno.
Retirement for me came before all the Boomers in my office. They might still be working there for all I know. My purpose in life is God, family, country, in that order.
If an older generation wants to work until they die, that’s their choice. I have another 40 years to live my life without punching a clock or filling out a time-sheet.
So tired of generation division stuff! Hmmm?
Half of your sentences here were either directly making fun of or at least condescending to older people.
Maybe you should step back re-read what you wrote and stop adding to that divide!
Don’t mention the Social Security entitlement... Gets folks riled up every time.
“It’s my money and I demand it!”
I read and re-read twice before I hit send. These are my experiences and thoughts. There is nothing derogatory in what I wrote, only sympathy and a lack of understanding on my part.
Honestly, I don't understand why people work in the office until they die. That might be a generational thing? My choice was to stack cabbage and be frugal for most of my life. Now I hope to have another 40 years of living life, God willing.
Everyone's circumstances are different. I find it ironic that Gen-X is retiring while Boomers are still working. Lord help the Millenials and Gen-Z.
I've done my share and more.
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