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I am quite sure that the U.S. national debt will double in far less then 25 years.
Both parties have shown they are completely incompetent when it comes to balancing the budget.
The national debt has risen 150% in just the last ten years - and the trend is getting worse, not better.
The days of American economic supremacy are numbered unless drastic action is taken - and it won't be (imo).
The politicians are too corrupt/economically stupid and the masses are too weak/economically stupid.
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The only little problem with this moronic "borrow your way to prosperity" plan is that most gov't "investments" are NOT in areas that produce any real return. Liberals see even crack babies born into the slums as "good investments", on par with a highway bridge maintanence program. Rather than do any real cost benefit analysis, gov't is basically "keep it all going" collection of special interest morons that see "equality" as meaning either everything is cut or everything is increased "equaly"; the cowboy poetry festival, the NASA art program and social security are ALL gov't programs, they ALL have costs and they ALL have benefits. Of course, this is just plain insane, but if your are on the "help the crack babies" sub, sub, sub-committee then that is your JOB and your sworn duty is to fund that little pet project, as much as possible, hoping it will bloom into a massive success and get you promoted to the NASA art program sub, sub-committee to help those crack babies learn to use gov't crayons to color in outlines of Mars rovers.
How many times have we heard that "we" are going to go line by line, through the feaderal "budget" (do you remember when we last had one of those?) and cut "waste, fraud and abuse" or "programs that do not work for America"? The answer is both early and often in each election, all seem to run promising to "fix things" in DC, yet once they get that DC "dream job" the first order of business given them, is to take some "troubled" federal program and find a way to get it more funding by taking a slot on the "cowboy poetry festival" sub, sub, sub, sub-committee and being assured success there will move you up to "house speaker" or some other lofty post if you show that "can do" spirit, so vital to growing a fine and proper federal gov't to help ALL of the people in ALL areas of their lives.
In private business, the CEO that plans to borrow massively and expand even the left-handed smoke-shifter unit of the Wonder Widget division of the outdoor garden products section of the depratment of the "neat-stuff-that-may-actually-sell-one-day" branch, is FIRED and told to get clean and sober. Gov't budgets SHOULD start with "this is how much we get in taxes each year", NOT with "this is how much we borrowed and spent last year" now ADD 1.4% (or maybe a little more) and 'git-r-done'!
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