Breaking All Records: USA (estimated) National Debt Just Topped $9,001,000,000,000.00

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  1. #1
    Our once great economy now has a Federal Government (estimated) National Debt of over $9,001,000,000,000.00 (over 9 Trillion dollars)
    • This fact does not include the debts of each individual state,
    • Large Cities, and
    • record levels of consumer debt.

    How long can the "money game" go on before... :eek:?
    I've put off stocking up on food and other survival stuff, have you prepared for disaster??
    The "payback time" is years overdue already; will our leaders somehow continue their amazing ways of avoiding reality? How??

    • Much of the $9,001,000,000,000.00 (over 9 Trillion dollars) is owed to other countries...
    • ...we might soon have a third world economy combined with...
    • ...#1 superpower military.

    The next 5 years will be very memorable, I hope you are able to live through it all.

    • How will it end?
    • Does your opinion matter in this world??

     
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  2. PHPGator

    PHPGator Banned

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    #2
    You spend during a time of war.
     
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  3. Grumps

    Grumps Peon

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    Theres nothing we can do about it if we have George Bush as president and if we have any more stronger foreign policy. Our country spend more on military than the country development. What the heck.
     
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  4. davewashere

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    That's a lot of zeros. By the way, my new goal is to reach Adsense earnings of $9,001,000,000,000.00 per day by next summer. This is going to take a lot of link building.
     
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    Which is exactly why we should never have gone in the first place we were already debt.

    I refuse to vote for anyone who doesn't make a balanced budget #1 priority.


    Pssst: I voted for Bush and boy do I feel like a sucker!
     
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  6. 1EightT

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    I for one am leaving the country. It has done nothing but go downhill in the past 6 years.
     
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  7. ly2

    ly2 Notable Member

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    You think it's bad now? Wait till Hillary gets into power. You're going to have more new social programs than you can shake a fucking stick at. Even going just by her so-called free health care (socialized medicine), that alone will probably top the amount spent in Iraq. Every fucking idiot and their mother is going to go to the doctor every chance they get, including illegal aliens.
     
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    You can always print more money :D
     
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    It baffles me that the wealthiest nation is also the one (or one of) those in the largest amount of debt.
     
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    That why the US is so weathly

    We import trillion of dollars worth of products and pay with worthless pieces of paper
     
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    That's how it is with wealthy nations. Japan is the same way. Actually, I think their debt is even higher than ours.
     
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  12. gemini181

    gemini181 Well-Known Member

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    #12
    Short-term: Your statement is really cool :cool:

    Long-Term (or very soon) What happens when the "full faith and trust of the US government" is no longer able to make payments on all the interest?

    ...or when several major bond-holding countries suddenly try to sell?

    Do you really think the debts can go unpaid forever?
     
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  13. ferret77

    ferret77 Heretic

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    hurray we are number one
     
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    Which one are you heading to? I'm going to hold steady here, where for six years a president has done his primary constitutional duty — that is, to protect the citizens of this country. Over the past six years, terrorism has been confined to some of those other countries you'll be choosing among.
     
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    Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves just yet ly2. :p

    We both know that Hillary will be a disaster for the USA and the world but at least give her a chance to get in and continue the Bush/Clinton value of fu*king up everytyhing that they touch before we start slating the wh*re. :D
     
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  16. gemini181

    gemini181 Well-Known Member

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    #16
    911 = Incompetence gets blamed (repeatedly) to explain the clear warnings prior to 911, and...

    ...you feel protected?

    Ooops, wait...:eek:
    Six years, so you are talking right after 911?

    • Bush, and his friends start two wars against countries who had nothing to do with 911 (anyone remember the Saudis?)
    • Neither occupation is over; We have new enemies hating us even more...
    ...and you feel protected?


    Katrina = Slow response, FEMA f^ck-ups, riots, looting, cops going AWOL, trucks of fresh water getting turned away by FEMA...

    ...and you feel protected?

    Reckless spending = Record debt

    Republicans used to understand Economics, now they are destroying the future for your grand-kids...

    ...and you feel protected?

    I'm glad to see someone is the world who feels safe.
    Enjoy!
     
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    You also tax to generate the war chest.

    Write an ebook about making $9 trillion in one year with your secret techniques. Make sure it is available for download, even at 3:00 am. :)

    Ditto.

    Why get partisan my brother? None of the Republicans except Ron Paul are running with a balanced budget (actually a budget that should reduce the debt).

    I love it when they do that. When every dollar I have becomes worth less as the money supply increases with each bill rolling off of the printing press. No matter where I am, how I am doing financially, what time of day it is, those bastards at the Fed continue to find ways to undermine my net worth.
     
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    #18

    wow, yeah except of course people Americans have now died in Iraqi then were killed on 911, and hell if you count tens of thousands of innocent iraqis killed it gets really ugly

    dude, he has got God and Bush to protect him so of course he feels safe

    of course if you don't actually have any money these things don't worry you
     
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    Do you work for fox news or something? This is why I am moving. I can't believe there are people here who actually think iraq has anything to do with 9/11 or our safety. The country I am moving to has no military, has never been to war, and has relatively low violence especially compared to america. I'm not sure which constitutional duty our president has upheld.......wait, that's because he ripped up our constitution, bypassed due process by making a patriot act that strips an entire nation of all civil liberties, then made us all believe it was in our best interest under the guise of "terror". Give me a freakin break!
     
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