Forgive my ignorance on this... but...
How does the US Government "own" ~3.5 trillion dollars of it’s own debt? |
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Tito
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How does the US Government "own" ~3.5 trillion dollars of it’s own debt? It’s what we have to cough up in additional taxes to pay back the Socialist Insecurity fund money we’ve spent.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
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Tom Perkins
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In other words, this President, in 5 years, has borrowed more money from foreign governments, foreign banks, foreign financial centers than all of the other Presidents America has had, combined. So has anyone ever ran the numbers (adjusted for inflation natch) to check this? Not that I doubt it much, but I wouldn’t mind seeing the numbers. |
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So with the cost of the Iraq War less than half of the trillion dollars, just how can any politician say, with a straight face, that Bush has really cut anything ? Rearranged it a bit, yes, but cut, for crying out loud, no.
As for the government owning $3499 billion of the national debt, there are also more than $3499 billion in liabilities to more than match.
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Neo
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How does the US Government "own" ~3.5 trillion dollars of it’s own debt? What? You don’t recognize your Social Security "lockbox"?
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McQ
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It’s what we have to cough up in additional taxes to pay back the Socialist Insecurity fund money we’ve spent. I’m sure glad it’s all nice and safe, just waiting to be there for me when I need it. |
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68% of the debt to British sorts!
Soon we’ll be forced to refer to our Chips Ahoy cookies as ’biscuits’.
Then they’ll make us add an additional ’i’ to the word aluminum, our gasoline
will become petrol, and we’ll be forced to observe the ’robots’ at major intersections turning from red to green before we can proceed.
They may even replace the intersections with roundabouts!
Why isn’t Congress protecting us?
Why are they misleading us by not highlighting the dangers of CanadoBritish imperialism?
What do Nancy & Hillary propose to do about all this!?! |
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looker
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What do Nancy & Hillary propose to do about all this!?! Why you silly person looker, it’s quite obvious they will want to have a cup of afternoon tea. |
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I never believed that our security was threatened by who held our debt.
I do believe that our economic prosperity is threatened by too much debt.
As interest rates rise and the debt begins to take a larger share of the budget to service, it can put pressure upon the politicians to inflate the economy.
We are not in a danger zone yet, but the unfunded liabilities of Medicare and SSN will be a big pill to swallow. |
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kyle N
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Why you silly person looker, it’s quite obvious they will want to have a cup of afternoon tea. with scones, and those raisin thingies. |
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kyle N
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BTW! What happened to Red State? Did it get nuked by the Libs? |
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kyle N
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As interest rates rise and the debt begins to take a larger share of the budget to service, it can put pressure upon the politicians to inflate the economy. Your economy is inflating faster than your debt, see Skeptical Optimists "best debt clock". |
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unaha-closp
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Hmmmm. Interesting. Not sure about this one. Not going to bother researching the antipodal graphs saying the opposite. Worth a further look though if I had the time. |
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I’ve seen discussions about what could happen if during a major incident with China, it decided, against it’s own economic interests, to sell off large quantities of US government securities that it would flood the bond market making it impossible for the federal government to sell new bonds to secure enough cash to pay anybody.
So far, the downside has looked too costly, but given the right set of factors, any of those major debt holders could cause a hold lot of trouble.
Frankly, this is the same problem with the Social Security "LockBox" bonds, stored safely in West Virginia. The SSA could be as dangerous as any foreign debtor. |
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The Skeptical Optomist is a great website. For the left-leaning commenters who might be skeptical, his main thesis is that government shouldn’t worry so much about spending or taxing, but instead focus on policies that keep the growth rate high, so the debt naturally comes down.
I’d peg him as a fiscal moderate if there ever was one.
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Of course the debt can’t come down if spending is always greater than the taxing. |
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Unknown
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Of course the debt can’t come down if spending is always greater than the taxing. Sorry, I meant debt as percentage of GDP.
Also, it seems like governments mainly go into surplus from good economic times rather than cost cutting or increased taxation...but that’s just my observation. |
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Harun
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Bwahahaha Our plot has been discovered!!
Seriously now though, The US government couldn’t, for National Security Resons, manage to find $321 Billion to buy off the Chinese debt? It’s a sizable chunk of change for sure, but not impossible. |
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Joe_canadian
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"Seriously now though, The US government couldn’t, for National Security Resons, manage to find $321 Billion to buy off the Chinese debt"
Sure, we borrow it from the Brits. |
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