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Sounds like there needs to be some sort of efficiency department set up
We can call it the Department Of Grifting Everyone
For healthcare? Education? Can’t possibly imagine what …
Maybe they are secretly building a super efficient and expansive social safety net behind our backs and making it a surprise!!!
You are more likely to become soylent green.
Dammit! Now you made me hungry again.
Just nibble on your finger, Food!
From blood bag to sack lunch: the life & times of a pre-wasteland pleb.
It’ll be ready in just two weeks.
I hope so, for your sake.
You gotta be willing to spend if you want to build the biggest and best ballroom ever made.
Good thing the fiscally responsible party is in power
Gotta spend money to make genocides
interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year
If my finger-counting math is right ye yanks, on average (including children), are paying ~$250 a month just in interests… I ain’t no economist but that seems like a lot.
It’s actually worse than this if you just consider the number of working adults.
Which is about 165 million.
Which means every working adult is paying ~$500/m just on the interest.
Which… Isn’t working, at all, the US is cooked.
The only good jews is the working class has already been squeezed really hard. We can’t support that debt. The wealthy are going to have to start chipping in
I know in being optimistic here, but it’s possible for another FDR-type era
The only good jews
The only good WHAT?
If we get some crazy inflation that won’t be more than the price of a cup of coffee.
Let’s go for coffee I’m buying
Its less when you realize that the debt is mostly held by American investors.
Makes me feel so much better knowing my hard-earned money is going to wealthy Americans /s
The working class is who pays disproportionately high taxes. The wealthy are the ones holding large numbers of bonds
Oh man, this must be that FiScAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy I keep hearing about from the
reichrightEven years ago, you could tell how honest the Tea Party people were by asking if they’d defund the police or military.
Overseen by man with significant history of refusing to repay loans.
so rather than just pay a tax like a socialist country would up front, US is now only just surviving on tariffing …which is paid … by their own people ….as a tax. On top of whatever tax you already pay ……while digging more deficits.
all while essential services dry up and wither at every level of government…
Just for the sake of argument: It’s possible to create gasoline from any hydrocarbon feedstock (wood, cow shit, OSB scraps, rice hulls, sugar) for about $12/gallon. At 42 gallons of gas/jet fuel/diesel/kerosene per barrel of oil, that’s roughly $504 of finished product per barrel (@ $12/gal).
That means $50 billion would get you about 100 million barrels of synthesized oil. Since the US consumes about 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day we’d be able to synthesize 5/7ths of our oil consumption from waste biomass for that $50 billion per week. Food for thought.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.
…but what about the bones?
They should be used for broth, not to sharpen the dentures of a senile old racist…
This will have to be re-edited to ONE TREELLION DOLLARS.
They say anything to get into power. Literally anything. None of it matters and they know it.
Thank god Doge found all that extra money.
Those $2-mil missiles add up fast.
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Uggg this old trope.
It’s not really “borrowing” when they print the money.
It’s just another wealth transfer from the poor to the extremely privileged.
M2 money supply actually had not increased for a while and only recently surpassed the previous peak in 2022. Meanwhile US debt and debt to GDP ratio increased modestly (and is in fact down from the COVID era peak ‘thanks’ to inflation) meaning that it’s mostly the treasuries market that was funding the new debt (i.e. borrowing)
With quantitative easing, the two are more similar than different
Americans, is it in deep enough to react?
“Americans, why haven’t you built a parallel system that can take on the strongest military in the world yet? It’s been over a year.”
Edit: see what I mean?
It’s been over 60
But also, we keep paying one half of America to kill the other half. That’s got a stabilizing effect
So maybe if you could not be responsible with it, you should have never had it.
Isn’t that one of the excuses you use to keep bombing children around the world?
Yes another non-answer.
You can’t pretend you are up against your own military when you have literally done nothing yet
But no worries, you take this lazy stand because you couldn’t care less about the harm caused abroad as long as you can keep sipping your latte… but the USA is already falling off the cliff, you just prefer to keep your head in the sand a long as possible
Let me post about it so I feel validated by being on the right side. That’ll show em.
You’re welcome to come help out
Easy to say
Not as easy as <checks notes> marching on weekends to ensure minimum disruption while your country massacres school girls under the command of a pedophile… but certainly non of this if your concern
Fuck you. Ignorant twat.
Ignorant twat.
No, I am not Murican
I disagree, according to my observation U.S. borrowed at least $69.7B per week 1 394,11 / 20
United States of America 3,5% 25/28 US91282CPC90 99.75 13/10/2025 USD 100 15/10/2025 3.50% 15/10/2028 59.08 bn United States of America 3,625% 25/30 US91282CPD73 99.23 31/10/2025 USD 100 31/10/2025 3.63% 31/10/2030 74.02 bn United States of America 3,5% 25/27 US91282CPE56 99.74 31/10/2025 USD 100 31/10/2025 3.50% 31/10/2027 72.96 bn United States of America 3,75% 25/32 US91282CPF22 98.81 03/11/2025 USD 100 31/10/2025 3.75% 31/10/2032 46.53 bn United States of America 0,000% 25/26 US912797SK41 97.28 03/11/2025 USD 100 30/10/2025 - 29/10/2026 52.80 bn United States of America 3,5% 25/28 US91282CPK17 99.73 13/11/2025 USD 100 15/11/2025 3.50% 15/11/2028 67.03 bn United States of America 4,625% 25/55 US912810UP11 96.67 17/11/2025 USD 100 15/11/2025 4.63% 15/11/2055 28.89 bn United States of America 4% 25/35 US91282CPJ44 98.53 17/11/2025 USD 100 15/11/2025 4.00% 15/11/2035 48.54 bn United States of America 3,75% 25/32 US91282CPM72 98.76 01/12/2025 USD 100 30/11/2025 3.75% 30/11/2032 49.03 bn United States of America 3,5% 25/30 US91282CPN55 98.85 01/12/2025 USD 100 30/11/2025 3.50% 30/11/2030 70.00 bn United States of America 3,375% 25/27 US91282CPL99 99.68 01/12/2025 USD 100 30/11/2025 3.38% 30/11/2027 76.89 bn United States of America 3,5% 25/28 US91282CPP04 99.72 11/12/2025 USD 100 15/12/2025 3.50% 15/12/2028 58.00 bn United States of America 0,000% 25/26 US912797TC16 96.78 06/01/2026 USD 100 26/12/2025 - 24/12/2026 52.30 bn United States of America 3,875% 25/32 US91282CPQ86 99.48 02/01/2026 USD 100 31/12/2025 3.88% 31/12/2032 48.69 bn United States of America 3,625% 25/30 US91282CPR69 99.38 02/01/2026 USD 100 31/12/2025 3.63% 31/12/2030 77.46 bn United States of America 3,375% 25/27 US91282CPS43 99.67 02/01/2026 USD 100 31/12/2025 3.38% 31/12/2027 76.35 bn United States of America 3,5% 26/29 US91282CQA26 99.91 13/02/2026 USD 100 15/02/2026 3.50% 15/02/2029 74.43 bn United States of America 4,125% 26/36 US91282CPZ85 100.81 17/02/2026 USD 100 15/02/2026 4.13% 15/02/2036 53.90 bn United States of America 4,75% 26/56 US912810UR76 0.00 18/02/2026 USD 100 15/02/2026 4.75% 15/02/2056 32.08 bn United States of America 0,000% 26/27 US912797TV96 96.67 23/02/2026 USD 100 19/02/2026 - 18/02/2027 52.28 bn United States of America 4,625% 26/46 US912810UT33 99.95 24/02/2026 USD 100 15/02/2026 4.63% 15/02/2046 17.92 bn United States of America 3,375% 26/28 US91282CQB09 99.71 27/02/2026 USD 100 28/02/2026 3.38% 29/02/2028 77.27 bn United States of America 3,5% 26/31 US91282CQD64 99.24 02/03/2026 USD 100 28/02/2026 3.50% 28/02/2031 78.39 bn United States of America 3,75% 26/33 US91282CQC81 98.78 03/03/2026 USD 100 28/02/2026 3.75% 28/02/2033 49.27 bn
