Pay back time will come

Let’s put some data on the table:

US Annualized GDP: 15.0 trillion
Current debt ceiling: 14.3 trillion
Current US debts: 14.3 trillion (yep, at the ceiling)
US Federal spending: 3.6 trillion
Federal tax revenue: 2.2 trillion
US Federal deficit: 1.4 trillion

Of those 3.6 trillion of federal spending:

Medicare/Medicaid: 824 billion
Social Security: 716 billion
Defense: 702 billion
Interest on debts: 213 billion

Yes, these four add up to 2.455 trillion, or 68% of the federal spending. Yes, all the highways, national parks, foreign aids, bridges to wherever, green whatever, education, unemployment benefits, immigration border control, abortion or not, subsidies and all the controversies you and your politicians debated all day long add up to less than a third of the federal budget. We can cut them all out and the debts will still continue to grow.

My dear citizens of the US. What would you like to do? And everyone, what do you think is really going to happen in 10 years?

Posted under Peek into my mind by sinyaw on Tuesday 2 August 2011 at 8:40 am

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