Welcome to $18 trillion

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Welcome to $18 trillion. In spite of a record $341.5 billion in tax revenues for fiscal year 2014, the public debt of the federal government now stands at $18,005,549,328,561.45. A new milestone—or is it millstone?

J.P. Travis: Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1976 graduate of University of Michigan, father, grandfather, husband, founder and CEO of Travelyn Publishing (http://www.travelynpublishing.com/), and passionate anti-government believer in individual liberty.

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  • Welll Obama has:

    Put us ass over teakettle in debt
    F*cked up the economy
    F*cked up the military
    Trying to F*ck up the Police
    F*cked up welfare
    F*cked up unemployment
    F*cked up elections
    F*cked up law and order
    F*cked up the medical system
    F*cked up the environment
    F*cked with our allies
    Try to kiss ass with our enemies
    Spied on his enemies
    Broken the law with imperial executive orders
    Sent the IRS/DOJ/EPA/ATF and others after people who speak out
    Allowed terrorists to walk free
    Tried to destroy Christianity and replace it with state sanctioned religion
    And Lied hundreds if not thousands of times....

    One idiot has done all that damage and a good bunch of idiots were stupid enough to vote for him twice, and they STILL defend this moron.

    The 18 Trillion in debt is just one part of the disaster known as Obama..and no one is sure where he went to college, if he even graduated or where he was born.....Plus the fact that that Nazi loving buddy of his, Soros, Has his hand firmly planted in Obama's ass and is making the puppet talk and walk.

    It's enough to make you puke......

    • But on the plus side, he made Carter look like a political genius with balls of brass and a spine of steel.

    • Spied on his enemies, our friends, and the TEA Party.

      And Lied hundreds OF thousands of times….

      There, I fixed it for you.

    • When was the last time anyone mentioned "the stimulus"?

      The Dems don't mention it. No references to any great success stories from all the money spent.

      The GOP doesn't mention it. No attacks on the scandal of millions and millions of dollars vanishing into nonexistent zip codes.

      Half a billion thrown out there into the wind with no records kept of who walked away with it.

      It's all a sick joke.

  • I checked it this morning and it was at 17.97 or somewhere around there.

    Then I checked it a couple hours ago and... EIGHTEEN! Damn.

    It's the result of "cleverness" about wealth. Instead of making a product and selling it at a markup that covers cost and labor, we have switched to money games: all fed by the dream that you can stick your money somewhere, then come back later and find that it's doubled! Whoo-hoo!

    Dick the butcher was wrong when he said "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers!" It's everyone who goes under the name of "economist" that made this mess. "Tell you what: let's bundle your debt and sell it to that guy, then we'll borrow some more debt off projected earnings, and interest on projected earnings, and use that debt to buy someone else's debt, and then we'll sell the new debt really fast before we're stuck with it, and use that money to borrow some more."

    Kill the money-gamers. Kill them all.

  • REmember when the commucrats were always puking, "It's for the childrennnnnnnnnn"? And the S4B's ate it right up/

  • I'm pretty sure that somehow, some way that this is Bush's fault. I notice something really bad happened in 2007. I wonder what that was? Then something really, really bad happened in 2009. Again, wonder what happened?

      • Much like how Obama ended the recession in less than four months, the Obama depression we have been in for six years will be all the next president's fault. Also predict that the media finds all sorts of homeless and the record rate of poverty then too.

  • The debt is so extreme that the numbers are incomprehensible and as such, the magnitude is ignored by those that have been voted into office for the sole purpose of curtailing the uncontrolled waste, corruption and fraud.

    The people in charge are either numbed beyond belief or mesmerized by the shear enormity of the impending destruction.

    • Even more incomprehensible is the number you get when you include unfunded liabilities: add another $115 trillion to the $18 trillion. Mind boggling. We have made slaves of our grandchildren.