There has been an enormous amount of discuss the spending deal which was only attained in Congress. Most of the focus was on who “won” and who “lost” politically, and if you have been keeping up with my posts you certainly understand my opinion on the issue.
However, what nobody is truly talking about is that this deal really increases spending at a time when our debt was completely exploding. We added more than a trillion dollars a year to the U.S. national debt during Obama’s eight years in the White House, and also our debt breakout really accelerated toward the conclusion of the next semester. In actuality, the national debt increased by more than 1.4 trillion bucksduring financial 2016…
In the close of business on Sept. 30, 2015, the final day of financial 2015, the federal debt was $18,150,617,666,484.33, as stated by the Treasury. From the close of business on Sept. 30, 2016, the final day of financial 2016, it had climbed to $19,573,444,713,936.79.
Because we are already in so much debt, we may too shoot for the moon, right?
At the moment, the U.S. national debt is stuck at $19,846,087,305,498.20 since the debt ceiling has not yet been raised. The government is using accounting tricks to maintain that amount but the second the debt ceiling has been increased by Congress that amount will leap up by countless billions of bucks.
From the time financial 2017 is over, we will almost certainly have added at least another trillion dollars to the debt, and the Congressional Budget Office is projecting that an extra $10 trillion is going to soon be added to the debt during the next ten years.
These times we toss around the term “a trillion bucks” like it isn’t a major thing.
Let me share a tiny case with you to offer you an idea. In case you started spending a thousand bucks each and every day around the day that Jesus Christ was created and you kept on spending a thousand bucks every day as then, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion bucks by now.
The borrower is the servant of the lender, and I would say that we are currently enslaving ourselves, but that is not exactly accurate because we do not really have any intention of ever paying some of the debt back. We aim to just keep moving to more debt for a long time to come.
Regrettably, it’ll be our children and our grandchildren which might need to deal with all of this debt when our nation stays that long. Thomas Jefferson was completely accurate when he described government debt for a means for a single generation to steal money from the other, and because the afternoon that Barack Obama initially entered the White House, the federal government was stealing more than 100 million bucks an hour out of our children and our grandchildren each and every hour of each and every moment.
Just think about that for a moment.
That would make headlines all over the planet, if some thieves may eliminate stealing 100 million bucks from somebody.
However, that is what we are doing to future generations of Americans each and every hour of daily.
I have said it earlier, and I will say it again. What we are doing to our children and our grandchildren is outside criminal, and in a just society those that are accountable for getting us into so much debt will be likely to jail.
Whenever you are in the midst of a debt binge, it can look like there will be no consequences, but the truth is that a day of reckoning arrives eventually.
Among the reasons why I get so fired up about the national debt is since it could literally ruin the bright future that our descendants were assumed to have.
When you look back over the long term, the ordinary interest rate on U.S. government debt has been somewhere about 6 per cent.
It’s inevitable that interest rates will soon go back toward the average eventually, although of course at the moment we are nowhere near that amount.
Let’s imagine that the rate of interest gained back to only 5 per cent. We’d be paying about a trillion dollars per year just in interest on the debt if that happened and we would be confronting national bankruptcy.
At there the Federal Reserve would likely begin printing money of course, and we would turn into Zimbabwe or even another Venezuela.
However, if it’s so dangerous for governments to enter so much debt, just why would they do it?
Well, for something most politicians do not really care about long-term considerations. Instead, they really need the government to invest a great deal of money from the short term, since government spending consistently gives a boost to short-term financial activity.
And if the economy is “doing well” in the short term, it’s more likely that the voters will be in a fantastic mood when voting time arrives.
That is something which Barack Obama understood. He inherited a economic wreck, and so he went to the government debt binge in history. As I explained in a previous article, when we had not spent and borrowed 9.3 trillion dollars at that time that Obama had been in the White House, then we would be in the worst economic depression in our history right at this moment.
By going into debt, of course, our long-term issues have been magnified.
It had been estimated that with the Republicans in charge of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives that a feeling of financial responsibility would return to Washington, but that clearly has not happened. So now the stage is set to the sort of financial meltdown that I have been warning about for a lengthy time.
At the same time the Republicans would at least give lip service to trying to restrain the debt, but now they also seem to have become sure that our exploding national debt doesn’t really matter.
They are vastly outnumbered, although there are a small number of Senators which are still maintaining the struggle and a few dozen members of the home.
Although we were the most wealthy and most prosperous country on the entire planet, that was not enough for us.
We always had to have more, and so we have gathered the greatest mountain of debt from the history of the world.
There will be serious consequences for what we have performed, however, the warnings have been ignored, and so now all that’s left is to allow us to reap what we have sown.