The dirty secret is that sick number is not even the real deficit. It is a Treasury Dept put your best foot forward number that conceals the REAL DEFICIT. Yes, the real budget deficit....the debts we are going to have to pay long after these jerks who are living high on the tax payer hog leave their cush gigs in D.C. is a much higher number.
Call it the IMPLIED NATIONAL DEBT if you prefer. It's the true liability of the United States of America. That is, not only the Treasury bills, notes and bonds we sell to finance our annual deficit and past deficits. But all the promises we've made to make payments in the future...you know, Medicare and Social Security, etc.
That's how you get a ridiculous $55 trillion national debt.
Even with a war that has us hemorrhaging money (and, by the way, running up bills for the treatment of an entire generation of war torn soldiers with head traumas that will cause massive debilitating problems and expensive therapy for decades to come), the war is NOT the biggest weight on this country's economic future. The biggest problem is health care costs that are spiraling so quickly they will turn this once great nation into back of the parade carcass of what it once was.| Member Comments | Total Comments: 20 |
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Still_Aint_Your_Land
May 9, 2008 | 8:17 AM Third world illiterate peasants ______________________________________________ Certainly not terms that I made up, but definitely accurate ones. People who purposely come to this country ILLEGALLY and pop out babies on U.S. soil (at our expense) so that it will be more difficult to deport are not only criminals, they're destroying the very fabric of America. And as for the "illiterate peasants" term, you can't get more accurate than that. 90% of the criminals who come here can't even read or write their own language, and a peasant is just a poor farmer. Look it up. YOU seem to be the only one who's willing to pay for these illegal invaders, so why not put your money where your mouth is and invite a couple of dozen to move into your place? If you're the great Jimmy Carter humanitarian you claim to be this should be no problem, right?
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