• $1200 Is NOTHING Compared To Double Digit Trillions

    $1200 Is NOTHING Compared To Double Digit Trillions

    Maybe “budget” wasn’t really the word they were looking for. How else to explain the face of bipartisan agreement to a two year “budget” deal that lifts the debt limit and increases federal spending by $300 billion. If that’s their idea of “budgeting”, let’s just be grateful they didn’t call the agreement “Splurge 2018”. This …
  • 18 Facts on the US National Debt That Are Almost Too Hard to Believe

    18 Facts on the US National Debt That Are Almost Too Hard to Believe

    There is hesitation among the political class as to what must be done to pay down and eliminate this debt. At around $22.5 trillion, the United States national debt sits at 106 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). There is no disputing that this gigantic debt will someday become due and payable. However, there is …