How's the US National Debt doing?

[YellowDog]

The debt per person compared with the debt per tax payer figures are not so good

Our problems are relatively small

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

[avgas]

farrrrrrrk

[Oblivion]

For some reason the Total debt is going down Thats didn't happen last time I saw it

[jazfender]

brain asplode.

[mashman]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[oldrider]

Debt is man made, all that is missing is the will and the real want to fix it!

Everything else involved in production and consumption is still in abundance, the only thing missing is a reliable money system to move it!

There are other forces at work here!

[scumdog]

Debt is man made, all that is missing is the will and the real want to fix it!

Everything else involved in production and consumption is still in abundance, the only thing missing is a reliable money system to move it!

There are other forces at work here!

Sort of my thoughts too...

[Woodman]

Debt per family versus saving per family is scary shit considering that there will be a lot of people retiring soon.

BOOM

[oldrider]

Move the decimal point back and just carry on. (Sigh, too easy but that is in effect what will happen)

[SPman]

.....the inherent difficulty of saying anything meaningful about a political world that has become almost totally hallucinatory. This is currently being exemplified by the debt-ceiling “crisis.” Every single element of the public presentation of this “crisis” is transparently, even brazenly false. It is obvious – even to many of our ever-somnolent Establishment commentators – that the situation is an entirely manufactured crisis designed solely to impose shock-doctrine “austerity” on the American system, thus completing its long, painful mutation into a neo-feudal oligarchy backed by a militarist police state. One can speculate till the cows come home about why this is happening – and why it is being so meekly accepted not only by the institutions of civic society but also by the population whose lives, communities and futures are being so aggressively degraded by this savage class war. But what one cannot do is to make a sensible comment about “current events” (as this phrase is usually understood), because the “events” themselves are nonsensical. Treating surface data of these "events" as substantive realities – as most “serious” commentators do – is like engaging in debate with a madman lost in some infinitely variegated imaginary world. And this sense of irreality holds across the spectrum of our public life, especially in our endless, monstrous wars and the operations of our vicious and voracious “security” organs.

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