Some interesting points to note:
- We owe foreigners $5.9 trillion, representing 33.5% of our debt outstanding.
- Not only is the Social Security lockbox empty, there are $2.7 trillion of IOUs piled up in the lockbox.
- We owe $2.4 trillion to private bankers at the Federal Reserve, accounting for 13.6% of our debt due. Five years ago we owed less than 5% of our debt to the Federal Reserve.
- You owe $826 Billion to pay the pensions of Federal government drones.
- Do you see the $492 Billion owed to military veterans for fighting our wars of choice included in the military budget?
- The good news is we will owe $20 trillion before Obama is done his reign of error and terror.
Chinese Adoption Agency Poster ………. for Americans
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Huh! Just noticed …. that a Joo Chink ……. even more amazing
Hilarious picture Stuck.
I’m amazed every day that nobody seems to notice that our country is bankrupt. It’s like a game of charades, everyone pretending we’re solvent, ignoring the debt. Obama and the criminals in Washington have no intention of every paying it back, and nobody seems to notice or care. As long as the government checks keep coming, and SNAP cards keep working, no big deal. Imagine writing checks on your checking account, which is overdrawn by $17.5 trillion. Hilarious.
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The King of debt, Bathhouse Barry
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It’s as AWD said, no one really notices or cares, maybe they don’t really understand where this promised money comes from, until the shit stops, and it will stop sooner or later then people will care, and cry and scream, point fingers, and ask, “How could this have happened?”
Worst President Ever – Barack H. Obama
But, wait a minute! Wouldn’t that title go to president number 43, George W. Bush? He attacked a nation that never threatened us. The attack and occupation of Iraq resulted in over one million dead Iraqi civilians, tens of thousands dead and injured United States soldiers, and a cool three trillion added to the federal deficit.
If not Bush for the worst ever slot, what about number 31, Herbert Hoover? He fed the country a rosy scenario as the country entered the Great Depression. Hoover’s statements and actions were as harmful as they were delusional. Just say no to Hoover too.
Obama takes the title hands down. The worst ever president doesn’t refer to the personal or moral qualities of the person in office. In that case, there would be no contest at all. Number 7, Andrew Jackson, codified acts of genocide against entire nations of Native Americans through the Indian Removal Act.
The worst president title belongs to President Obama BECAUSE HIS ACTIONS AND INACTIONS OCCUR AT A TIME WHEN THE FUTURE OF THE NATION AND THE HUMAN SPECIES ARE IN THE BALANCEHad Bush followed Obama, Bush would take the title. But, it’s President Obama who leads at a time when intelligent, positive policies are mandatory and mistakes intolerable.
What’s the Obama record?
The president took the evisceration of the United States Constitution under President Bush and pushed it to new levels. The Snowden releases show that the Obama National Security Agency had access to the private communication of innocent citizens and business through the country. Mind you, they “don’t look at the contents,” just the patterns of communication. But, we all know that’s a big fat lie. The constant collection of private and business communication on this level is an Obama administration innovation.
Obama’s actions make failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork a prophet. At not so long last, as Bork argued, there is no right to privacy.
The Obama administration stepped into the mess of the 2008 financial collapse created by the Bush administration and Congress. Voluminous data was uncovered showing wrongdoing and probably illegal behavior on an epic scale that cost trillions in wealth and millions of jobs for citizens.
How many of the Wall Street and big bank high flyers have been investigated and prosecuted?
Seeing to it that the Bush attack on the Constitution continued and expanded, ignoring the perpetrators of the greatest financial theft of citizen wealth in history, and fiddling around with petty politics while the world heads toward global catastrophe represent an unassailable resume for the title worst president ever of the United States of America.
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Worst-President-Ever–Bar-by-Michael-Collins-Climate-Change_Edward-Snowden_Obama_Obama-Administration-140221-488.html
(Note: I edited this opinion piece to take out the author’s bullshit comments about Climate Change)
Our debt isn’t a result of the President alone. It’s the fault of both democrats, republicans, and the vast majority of voters who keep re-electing them. Pointing fingers solves nothing. As long as the public is willing to go along with the lies of economic “recovery” placated by receiving their monthly government checks (or paychecks if they are working), then personal and national debt will continue to increase. This plus lack of growth of desperately need good paying jobs will drag us down along with dollar devaluation by the Fed and probably a huge market correction caused by Wall Street Derivatives gambling plus many other factors.
It’s not what politicians and government do to citizens and our economy that causes economic catastrophe – it’s what uninformed and apathetic citizens allow to be done to them by remaining loyal to the current corrupt political establishment.
It’s the Corrupt leading the Blind.
The millions and millions of dumbfuck millennials with a student loan debt albatross permanently around their neck know who they owe—the same incompetent, evil socialist asshole they voted into office, twice. Talk about divine justice. Serves ’em right….
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So the country that these corrupted bastards offshored, owes itself over 60% of the declared debt?
That is rich. Wonder how well that will work out for our kids and grandkids.
Personally, I don’t even believe this rosy reporting. My guts screams to me that we are being fed complete bullshit and that situation – as in percentage of debt held by US/Fed/Citizens – is much more dire with much more being owed by us, for the government largess and lifetime pensions.
Cripes. I sometimes wonder if it will even stop after the collapse of our currency. Or will gangs of former fed employees – and state and local – go door to door collecting “taxes” directly from us?
The insanity level seems to be off the charts. Everywhere I turn is a complex system, growing even more complex, with fewer and fewer businesses to support more and more spending.
Freaking FUBAR is what we are. No matter who, or how much, we owe.
60 Minutes on Sunday did a long segment on “Missileers” …. the airmen you work in the ICBM silos …. such a cute name, sounds like “Musketeers”. I’m betting it’s a message to Putin. Twenty-somethings will “push the button” when the time comes.
Oreo announces more sanctions today.
More highly hypocritical and inflammatory remarks.
Maybe you all should practice hiding under your desks.
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The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.
http://blog.milesfranklin.com/the-nuclear-option
The Nuclear Option?
Author : Bill Holter
Published: April 28th, 2014
Several things happened this past week that were easily connectable and in my opinion can be put together to understand what is happening in the big picture. I plan to interject some opinion (mine) in this piece, if you disagree then I would say that you are entitled (still), just as I am entitled to my opinion.
China announced that they plan to trade, price and create an exchange for both oil and gold …in Yuan. They also plan to set up a global payments system that settles in Yuan. A financial salvo was fired by the U.S. against Russia as their credit rating was downgraded to one notch above junk. Russia has responded by publicly making plans to abandon the dollar completely and also exiting the sovereign debt of NATO allies. We also heard that President Putin has “temporarily” shut off all communication with President Obama while John Kerry’s calls to his Russian counterpart have gone unanswered. This is really bad stuff to put it mildly.
One other strange event that occurred was that the USS Donald Cook has been seen exiting the Black Sea. Originally this ship was sent in as assurance to our allies and as a show of strength. Russia today reported that one of their jets “buzzed” the Donald Cook 12 times (and confirmed by the U.S.), they also claim that the “Aegis” defense system was shut down or jammed by the Russians and it was rendered defenseless. Some may say that since this news came from a Russian source that it is propaganda, I personally believe it. I say this because why else would the Thomas Cook exit the arena as tensions are as high now as at any point? In my opinion, Russia “tested” our Aegis system to see if they could jam it and they did. The Donald Cook has retreated because were an Aegis class warship to be hit or even sunk, “invincibility” would be disproven. Again, this is just my own opinion.
I titled this piece “The Nuclear Option” because I believe that we are very very close to being blown up financially. As I mentioned last week, James Turk has reported that gold bars from the 1960′s and prior are beginning to surface in the global markets. We also know that the U.S. exported a huge 80 tons of gold in January. I wrote a week or two back that in my opinion the elevated open interest in silver has Chinese origins but I cannot prove it. We also know that all of a sudden Belgium has become a huge buyer of U.S. Treasuries; this is surely some sort of Fed or EU central bank proxy to sop up selling without the Fed tipping their hand to outright monetization.
What I am saying is that the stage is set. I believe than an all-out attack on the dollar is about to commence…and gold/silver will be the “bullets” so to speak. I believe that the Chinese have seen a “change” in the “type” of gold that is being delivered to them and they know the math. When I say they know the “math” I mean that they know how much they have accumulated and subtracted this amount from what they believe that the West originally had…which is now being confirmed by pre 1960′s gold hitting the market. They know that we are on the ropes.
The above said any strategist worth their salt will wait until their opponent is weak or has been weakened and I believe our opponents have come to this conclusion. They know that we are low on gold, they know that there are no large stockpiles of silver, they know that we are printing dollars like crazy to stay afloat, they know that we are in debt in every way imaginable above our heads, they know that we are monetizing debt, they know that Europe will not side with us if their supply of natural gas is shut off and they now know (in my opinion) that they have cracked the Aegis defense system. They also know that our economic numbers are a total sham and that unemployment and inflation are grossly higher than we report. In short, they know that we are full of crap. “Pulling the trigger” at this point is not a huge effort and will certainly not take a lot of money. I estimated 2 years ago that the silver market could be completely cornered with as little as $5 billion (or less)…so maybe they’ll use $10 billion? Gold, (if we are out as I suspect) could be cornered in my opinion with a concentrated $20 billion order…so maybe they’ll use $100 billion? “Where” will this type of money come from you ask? The sale of U.S. Treasuries of course, killing two (or more) birds with one stone (our own) by cornering the metals and dumping Treasuries to pay for it.
I believe that the plan is to “isolate” the U.S., even without any “help” we are doing this all by ourselves. I can envision several events taking place all at the same time. Russia could push into the Ukraine, China could become aggressive with Japan, and North Korea takes their cue and attacks South Korea while Iran and Syria strike at Israel…all at once… while Saudi Arabia switches allegiance. Dollars and Treasuries are dumped with the proceeds use to “call” our paper metals markets and demanding deliveries. Interest rates may not rise as the Fed would surely become a buyer but the value of the dollar would certainly crater. Were all this to occur at once, how could we respond? Our military is too stretched and too weakened to cover 4 fronts at once. Any major defeat of our “technology” such as the sinking of an Aegis class ship would on its own sink the dollar by 25% or even more. I could envision all of this taking place, the smoke already beginning to clear and a very different looking world over a 2 week period. Please keep in mind that our markets, our system as a whole, are now more leveraged and more extended than any other time in history.
This opinion or thought process I have titled “The Nuclear Option” because our financial system would go so far up in smoke in such a short period of time there is no other name for it. This would leave us with only one option…”the nuclear option.” We would have only one retaliation available to us and that unfortunately would be the use of tactical nuclear weapons
I know that hearing this opinion is not pleasant. I am not writing this to be alarmist; I am writing it because this is how I see it. History has shown us that whenever one country “stiffs” another country financially …war usually is the result. In this case it is the U.S. that has “stiffed” the rest of the world by (over)issuing dollars that have been freely printed to pay for real goods which we have imported. We have “over” lived our means on the backs of the rest of the world for many (too many in their opinion) years and payback is what I believe the rest of the world desires.
All of this is just my opinion but I am willing to bet that it’s not too far off from what is actually heading straight for us.