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The visual of this chart is outstanding, it jumped off the page when I saw it. The chart shows our Governments yearly revenue, yearly deficit, and total debt. This is from an article titled Great News! The Fiscal Crisis Is Over! by Jon Gabriel, at ricochet.com. I got there from this article at theburningplatform.com.
Here is a quote from Mr. Gaberiel, “…imagine the green is your salary, the yellow is the amount you’re spending over your salary, and the red is your MasterCard statement.”
What is sobering about this chart is how a seemingly small yearly deficit compounds into a massive amount of debt over time. What is it going to look like in three more years if we continue our $1 trillion yearly deficit?
THE REAL DEBT TOTAL
Unfortunately the $17 trillion is really not the actual debt. If you factor in the unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, which have been estimated to be between $55 to $222 trillion, look at chart here, the problem gets exponentially worse. What do you think Obamacare will add to this unsustainable mountain, or valley, of debt?
THE FED RIDES TO THE RESCUE?
Fortunately we have the Fed which can electronically print counterfeit money to pay our way out of this mess. Oh yeah, I forgot, the only way a Government can accumulate this amount of debt is because its Central Bank funds the expansion in the first place by buying Government bonds. Without the ability to electronically print counterfeit money, Governments can only grow to the size of what they can steal or mooch through taxing and borrowing. At a certain point, individuals won’t produce above a certain level if they can’t enjoy the fruits of their labor, and they won’t purchase bonds from a seller whose level of debt makes the transaction seem to risky. The Fed can’t print its way out of the economic reality of scarcity. Their denial of this reality is why they printed us into this mess in the first place.
The visual of this chart is outstanding, it jumped off the page when I saw it. The chart shows our Governments yearly revenue, yearly deficit, and total debt. This is from an article titled Great News! The Fiscal Crisis Is Over! by Jon Gabriel, at ricochet.com. I got there from this article at theburningplatform.com.
Here is a quote from Mr. Gaberiel, “…imagine the green is your salary, the yellow is the amount you’re spending over your salary, and the red is your MasterCard statement.”
What is sobering about this chart is how a seemingly small yearly deficit compounds into a massive amount of debt over time. What is it going to look like in three more years if we continue our $1 trillion yearly deficit?
THE REAL DEBT TOTAL
Unfortunately the $17 trillion is really not the actual debt. If you factor in the unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, which have been estimated to be between $55 to $222 trillion, look at chart here, the problem gets exponentially worse. What do you think Obamacare will add to this unsustainable mountain, or valley, of debt?
THE FED RIDES TO THE RESCUE?
Fortunately we have the Fed which can electronically print counterfeit money to pay our way out of this mess. Oh yeah, I forgot, the only way a Government can accumulate this amount of debt is because its Central Bank funds the expansion in the first place by buying Government bonds. Without the ability to electronically print counterfeit money, Governments can only grow to the size of what they can steal or mooch through taxing and borrowing. At a certain point, individuals won’t produce above a certain level if they can’t enjoy the fruits of their labor, and they won’t purchase bonds from a seller whose level of debt makes the transaction seem to risky. The Fed can’t print its way out of the economic reality of scarcity. Their denial of this reality is why they printed us into this mess in the first place.
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