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AMERICA'S NATIONAL DEBT TOPS $13,000,000,000,000; DEBT PER TAXPAYER - $117,975; US DEBT TO GDP RATIO - 90.3% None of that includes unfunded liabilities, promises the federal government has made, in the form of social security, medicare and obamacare... among others, I'm sure. Last figure I saw which included those was months ago; -$107,000,000,000,000.
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Reply to Knightly (11/15/2017 10:41 PM) no need to panic over this. the debt exist the same form as money does....digitally. that is it doesn't have a physical form. back when money was invented, it was a mere accounting system. money couldn't be created unless wealth was created. along the way money and wealth creation got separated. take a look, most money doesn't have a physical form. digital debt can be cleared with a few strokes of the federal reserve banking system computers. think like a banker and you won't panic over this. Hello, Knightly, welcome back.
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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hey, it is nice to see that TAE is still around.
i wonder why membership has decline. no it has nothing to do with the management or the members here. members have to leave for various reasons like illness and death. the thing is sites like this aren't attracting new members. maybe because of increase competition from other sites like face book?
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Perhaps. Some (or most) blame lay with me in that I’ve made a plethora of management errors. Learning experiences and all that.
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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Don't be so hard on yourself AK. You are a very good bad example as an administrator. Typical for a civil service employee always grousing about other civil service employees.
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Thanks!
You do realize, however, that in order to criticize something it helps to know something about it. People who think government is all spiffy are people who don't really know anything about it.
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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Well there you go again to the extreme to prove your point. I for one would never think any government is just spiffy & without fault. Of course it needs to be criticized frequently......but constantly???
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Reply to tommytalldog (11/17/2017 5:31 AM)
Well there you go again to the extreme to prove your point. I for one would never think any government is just spiffy & without fault. Of course it needs to be criticized frequently......but constantly??? Yes, constantly.
Think of it this way. You're in a small room with a very hungry tiger. Going to keep your eye on it? Constantly?
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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Well ya got a point.
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(CNSNews.com) - The federal government collected record
individual-income-tax revenues through the first quarter of fiscal 2018
(October through December), according to the new Monthly Treasury Statement. This was the last quarter before the new tax-cut law signed by President Donald Trump on Dec. 22 took effect. Despite
taking in record individual-income-tax revenues, the federal government
ran a deficit of approximately $225 billion during the quarter. The
Treasury collected a record $390,847,000,000 in individual income taxes
in October through December, according to the Treasury statement. That
was $30,568,380,000 more than the $360,278,620,000 that the Treasury
collected (in constant December 2017 dollars) in individual income taxes
in the first quarter of fiscal 2017 (which ran from October through
December of 2017). Cont... https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/feds-collect-record-income-taxes-through-december-still-run-225
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Reply to alaskaone (11/16/2017 6:01 PM) Perhaps. Some (or most) blame lay with me in that I’ve made a plethora of management errors. Learning experiences and all that. you haven't done anything wrong. when i had more health, i was on several political sites. so i have comparisons to make. i have done this before, turning done the bickering and just communicating. you and james were one of best managers of this type of sites. i say it again, the problem was the lack of new comers. when i started going to political sites, i binged. i had to reduce the number of sites that i was a member of. this was the last site that i stopped being active on.
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In honor of yet another republican betrayal and trumps spinelessness...
Debt $21,052,000,000,000 Liabilities $112,577,000,000,000
Total $-133,629,000,000,000
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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As we now know, last year DeVos boldly submitteda $9 billion
year-to-year reduction in appropriations for her department. How did the
Republican Congress respond? It granted the department a $2.6 billion increase in
appropriations, instead of the $9 billion requested cut. With control
of both houses of Congress and the presidency — and with a secretary
pleading for reduced appropriations — is this the best the GOP can do?
If so, loyal Republicans should be asking themselves: “What difference
does my vote (or my campaign contribution) make?” This Is Limited Government? We're in Trouble - Garland Tucker, RCPolicy
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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• Public relations. The federal government doesn't have to sell anything to survive, but rather lives off money appropriated whether the poor folk paying for it want to or not. You might think such an entity doesn't feel the need to spend much on public relations. You would be wrong. It takes 414,258 poor folk with taxable income of $10,000 to pay for the recent average of $430 million a year spent on public relations employees of the federal government, according to a 2016 GAO report.
• Fighter planes that the F-35 is supposed to replace. Remember that F-35 that costs $164.6 million per jet? While we're waiting for that decades-long program to come to complete fruition, the Center Against Government Waste points out, we are also spending—in fiscal year 2017 alone—$1.02 billion
for four earmarks funding two planes intended to be replaced by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF): $979 million for 12 additional F/A-18 E/F Hornets for the Navy; $24.8 million for F-16 mission training center simulators; $12 million for a missile warning system for the F-16; and $5 million for anti-jamming GPS for the F-16. The Air Force declared its variant of the JSF to be combat ready in August 2016, 15 years after Lockheed Martin won the contract. However, a report released in the same month by former DOD Operational Test and Evaluation Director Michael Gilmore found that, "achieving full combat capability with the Joint Strike Fighter is at substantial risk" of not occurring prior to the end of development. The report described the JSF as "… not on a path toward success but instead on a path toward failing to deliver."
If your taxable income is just a nose under the maximum for the tax table, $99,950, 48,629 people just like you are paying around one-fifth of that income every year, your total federal income tax burden, just to keep these planned-to-be-obsolete jets in the air.
• San Diego's trolley. What's even more expensive than a notorious Pentagon boondoggle? It's easy for most Americans to be unaware that federal aid for local transportation boondoggles even exists, even (or perhaps especially) if you are one of the many locals who will never use the subsidized transportation. Consider, then, the $1.04 billion that the Department of Transportation has earmarked for extending a San Diego trolley system by 10 miles. That hasn't all been spent yet, but if the department stays the course let's think of how that will add up for San Diegans with taxable incomes of $33,000, whether or not they ever ride the trolley: 223,707 of them just spent their whole tax bills on it.
(A hat tip on guidance to some of these expenditures to Sen. Lankford's Federal Fumbles and to the Center Against Government Waste's Congressional Pig Book.)
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And it's still not enough for 'em.
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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When you have to pay for Pax Americana the burden of the crown becomes heavy, AK. Besides, haven't you heard, the more taxes you pay the more patriotic you are. Start to feel great again.
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.......Besides, haven't you heard, the more taxes you pay the more patriotic you are. Start to feel great again. I feel better already.
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When you have to pay for Pax Americana the burden of the crown becomes heavy, AK. Besides, haven't you heard, the more taxes you pay the more patriotic you are. Start to feel great again. Said the facetious T-dog.
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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The Congressional Budget Office projected in April that the federal
budget deficit would hit $804 billion this year, and would top $1
trillion by 2020, two years earlier than previously projected. Last week, the CBO reported
that the federal government had already spent $895 billion more than it
brought during the first 11 months of the fiscal year, an increase of
$222 billion over the same period of time last year. Trillion-dollar
deficits are very nearly here. It's no secret why. Over the past year, Republicans at the federal
level have cut taxes while signing onto bipartisan deals to increase
spending. They have made the deficit larger at nearly every turn, and
there's no sign they plan to stop.
Just this morning, President Donald Trump tweeted
his displeasure with a bipartisan spending measure that passed in the
Senate earlier this week. "I want to know, where is the money for Border
Security and the WALL in this ridiculous Spending Bill, and where will
it come from after the Midterms? Dems are obstructing Law Enforcement
and Border Security." Trump had demanded
$5 billion in spending for a border wall; the deal Senate Republicans
cut with Democrats provides $1.6 billion. Trump, in other words, was
upset because the plan doesn't spend more.
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There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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If there's something the government does well, it's spend money.
Trump will "now be put to the test," Amash says.
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Re:-$124 trillion in debt/liabilities and growing fast
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Re:-$124 trillion in debt/liabilities and growing fast
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How much of the debt is held by Saudi Arabia?
Do we still own America? Most of the world’s richest, a concentration of them anyway, live here. Does that group of elites make us the target of others interested in world dominance rather than our western culture?
Our culture is easier to attack than rich people. Since most everyone wants to be rich: they’re a protected species.
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How much of the debt is held by Saudi Arabia?
Do we still own America? Most of the world’s richest, a concentration of them anyway, live here. Does that group of elites make us the target of others interested in world dominance rather than our western culture?
Our culture is easier to attack than rich people. Since most everyone wants to be rich: they’re a protected species.
It is my understanding that the majority of the debt of the US federal government is held by Americans. How is that possible? Well, I have a theory that involves; suppressed interest rates, Fannie mae, Freddie mac, and the various forms of retirement accounts
The suppression of interest rates led people to abandon traditional savings accounts. Why put money away in a savings account when the interest rate is roughly 1/10th of the rate of inflation? So, we stopped saving money and instead turned toward 'investments'. Those investments were in housing, in the stock and bond market via mutual funds and retirement accounts.
Fannie and Freddie bought mortgages and sold them as 'investments' which mutual funds often bought up. Mutual funds and retirement savings vehicles also bought up US debt instruments.
The end result is this: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mygovcost.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FY2016-A-ownership-US-government-national-debt.png&imgrefurl=http://www.mygovcost.org/2017/05/15/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-2/&h=662&w=911&tbnid=zQ4wEJxJDOlsvM:&q=who+owns+the+US+national+debt?&tbnh=155&tbnw=214&usg=AI4_-kRf04sldvX3tY2Qh4UCa_7CyO8Pdg&vet=12ahUKEwjqqpbdyaHfAhVhFTQIHSEtBfAQ9QEwAHoECAsQBg..i&docid=-pI0mNHKYe1_LM&client=firefox-b-1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqqpbdyaHfAhVhFTQIHSEtBfAQ9QEwAHoECAsQBg
Sorry for the sloppy link, I don't know how to fix it.
What the chart shows is that US citizens, in various forms, are on the hook for about 68% of the federal debt.
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As of September 2014, foreigners owned $6.06 trillion of U.S. debt, or approximately 47 percent of the debt held by the public of $12.8 trillion and 34 percent of the total debt of $17.8 trillion. As of 2018, the largest holders were China, Japan, Ireland, and Brazil.
National debt of the United States - Wikipedia
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Social Security keeps the interest rates lower and was responsible for Americans still owning the country. Not sure that still applies.
Grim. The idiots responsible have hefty retirements, probably not even living in the country.
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