"The most significant threat to our national security is our debt," Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, August 27, 2010


Friday, September 13, 2024

TheFundamentals… briefly… well, at least factually…

If you’re up for it, read this:  https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/address-nation-federal-budget-and-deficit-reduction

If you’re not… thefundamentals will make it simple – here goes:

April 24, 1985

My fellow Americans:

I must speak to you tonight about a serious problem that demands your immediate attention. I need your help.

Today the United States Senate began a rendezvous with history. The threads of our past, present, and future as a nation will soon converge on the single overriding question before that body: Can we at last, after decades of drift, neglect, and excess, put our fiscal house in order? Can we assure a strong and prosperous future for ourselves, our children, and their children by adopting a plan that will compel the Federal Government to end the dangerous addiction to deficit spending and finally live within its means?

Today our national debt amounts to nearly $8,000 for every man, woman, and child in America, and it's increasing by about $1,000 per person each and every year. Just to cover the interest on that debt, the Federal Government will spend $155 billion this year alone. That's more than its entire budget as recently as 1966.

If you’re still with me… here’s the situation today – now:

WHAT IS THE NATIONAL DEBT TODAY?

$35,311,476,720,850

That's

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$104,814

Source:  https://www.pgpf.org/

Oh, one more thing thefundamentals calls a FACT:

U.S. Government Spends Over $1 Trillion on Interest Payments in 2024 Amid Surging National Debt     source: https://www.cryptoglobe.com/

Oh, one more thing… it’s actually a Q… Question… which of the two nincomPOOPs seeking our vote have mentioned this DEBT mess… or what it does to a free and irresponsible democracy-based-materialism society… HUH?

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