US deep in debt and still digging - Propeller.com http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging You're paying for the nation's debt addiction through both direct and indirect taxes. And unfortunately, Uncle Sam is going to need more money. http://media-images.nscpcdn.com/media/ns-logo-rss.gif Propeller.com - US deep in debt and still digging http://www.propeller.com en-us Copyright 2006-2007 Propeller Propeller.com <![CDATA[Comment: Well, I guess we are looking at...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1991113 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1991113 Well, I guess we are looking at this differently or have different perpectives.

]]> Charlson Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:42:16 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: The US and its people have gotten...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988950 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988950 The US and its people have gotten bankrupt with 7 years of Bush & Cheney. If the Treasury has to borrow $150 billion from China to make hand outs to people who cannot afford gas & food and loaded with credit card debt & losing their homes, it is really a bankrupt economy.

While the millions are waiting for their handouts from China, India launched 10 satellites in one shot using PSLV technology and set a world record.

Auto makers and consumer products industries are booming there with every other Indian buying a car.

Is it a surprise that there are millions here who still want to vote for John McCain!!!!...

]]> nikkibabe Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:01:10 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Yeah, but according to ding dong...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988750 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988750 Yeah, but according to ding dong Bush, its all being done in the name of freedom, freedom, freedom ..... and in fighting terrorism, terrorism, terrorism .....

"We need to fight them over there so that we don't fight them over here." Apparently, a large number of people actually believe that. Also, don't forget the trickle down effect of giving the wealthy the big tax breaks, because they will create jobs, jobs, and jobs, but the only problem is that they are being created overseas not here.

]]> saneman Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:10:06 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: This is just the federal debt it...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988666 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988666 This is just the federal debt it doesn't include the rest of the debt which is more than 6 times this amount.

]]> engineer Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:41:29 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988600 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988600 U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 28 Apr 2008 at 07:14:52 PM GMT is:

9,338,804,522,537.58

The estimated population of the United States is 303,892,490

so each citizen's share of this debt is $30,730.62.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of

$1.44 billion per day since September 29, 2006!

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Heres the crux of it! Ask yourself this.. "What would happen if the interest rates start to rise along with inflation

say to double digit interest rates? "

]]> spkguy Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:22:00 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Did they use your nickname in your...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988550 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988550 Did they use your nickname in your yearbook? And was it an "Americanization" of a foreign sounding name, or a more common nickname? These questions seem somewhat relevant to me - perhaps not to you.

]]> joeblowe Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:04:26 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Well, I seem to remember having...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988455 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988455 Well, I seem to remember having my classmates call me by a nickname and not my given name. Didn't insist that people call me by my given name until I got older because I outgrew my nicknames and didn't want to be associated with my childhood but as a mature adult.

]]> Charlson Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:32:33 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: The CIA factbook hasn't https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-wo...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988262 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988262 The CIA factbook hasn't changed......">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-wo...

]]> Truzseeker Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:39:51 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: THAT WAS HIS NAME BEFORE HE CHANGED...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988238 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988238 THAT WAS HIS NAME BEFORE HE CHANGED IT.

]]> GHOSTWHOWALKS Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:35:32 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: I didn't invent the name "Barry"...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988228 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988228 I didn't invent the name "Barry" - he did. If he were REALLY so proud of his African heritage and name, why did he refuse to use it for his yearbooks? Seems like voter group pandering to me - so I like to use the name he preferred to use in his "youth" to sort of remind people that at one time he wasn't QUITE so proud of being black and African. Apparently. Why did he go back to using "Barak?" To make himself "more black?" Did he just figure out that someone was going to find out his name was really Barak Hussein Obama regardless of which name he preferred and just switched back to defuse the "bomb?" Hard to say, and I don't believe I've really heard a good explanation from him. Have you?

]]> joeblowe Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:32:25 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: I'm going by his yearbook name....]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988195 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988195 I'm going by his yearbook name. If he REALLY wanted to be "Barack" for any reason other than associating with some black cultural ideal of some sort for vote-pandering purposes, wouldn't he ALWAYS have used that name?

]]> joeblowe Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:26:55 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: "Tax and spend" is Republican speak...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988170 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988170 "Tax and spend" is Republican speak for "pay as you go."

Clinton era tax tables covered essential government services, paid off the Reagan era national debt, balanced the budget and spread the tax burden equally among all classes of Americans.

And then along came Dumbya and gave away the surplus to the ultra-rich, invaded Iraq, quadrupled the price of oil, gas, and energy, and ran up a national debt of 10 trillion dollars. Every American's share of the Iraq war is now over $4,000. The interest on the 10 trillion debt is about $4,000 a year for every man, woman and child. (And growing!) 10 trillion divided among every American is over $34,000.

And the Repukes want four more years of the same! Polls indicate that almost half of voters are in favor of this. Yup, let's just keep digging!

Gotta love it!

]]> Teech Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:21:33 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Why the nickname for Barrack and...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988148 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988148 Why the nickname for Barrack and not Hillary or John? Is the name Barrack too difficult to write or is this a subtle snipe at him? Just want to understand where you're coming from.

]]> Charlson Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:17:50 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Do you mean Barrack? ]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988122 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988122 Do you mean Barrack?

]]> Charlson Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:13:58 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: "This is despicable." No it's...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988107 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988107 "This is despicable."

No it's not. It's called Republicanism.

Vote for McCain for 4 more years of it.

]]> Teech Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:11:36 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: The democrats may tax and spend...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988106 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988106 The democrats may tax and spend but they don't add to the debt like the republicans. The republicans want their children and children's children to pay so they can have their cake now. This is why our country is in such a fiscal hole. And this is why I say the republicans are greedy and unempathetic towards future generations. They rape our environment and will leave it in ruins; and they spend, spend, spend and will leave America in debt that we may never recover from.

]]> Charlson Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:10:53 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: The only way I see that we can...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988059 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988059 The only way I see that we can reverse this trend is to elect Ron Paul - and many like-minded Senators and Representatives - and STOP the runaway spending of the federal government. It is OBVIOUS that not Hillary, nor Barry, nor John are going to do Jack Shi'ite to stop the madness. In fact, if you can believe the campaign "rhetoric", they will MAKE IT WORSE. Probably MUCH WORSE.

]]> joeblowe Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:03:32 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: I suspect Barry would also like...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988046 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988046 I suspect Barry would also like to get his share.

]]> joeblowe Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:59:59 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: And as proof the American people...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988022 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988022 And as proof the American people could care less as the pillaging progresses, we get John McCain and Hillary Clinton, two willing enablers.

]]> pongping Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:54:52 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Way to lead there Bushie!! Woo...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988008 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1988008 Way to lead there Bushie!! Woo hoo!

I sure hope he is paying for that beer everyone wanted to drink with him. While you're at it, ask him for a bump of coke to go with it.

]]> hamy Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:52:24 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Yes, the tax burden is being shoved...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1987473 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1987473 Yes, the tax burden is being shoved off on our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Bush and Cheney and their rich cronies don't care about ANY of that. They only care about the agenda they have forced on this country for the last 8 years - an agenda that has made them, and their big corporate buddies, rich.

Bush and Cheney and their rich cronies don't care that more and more Americans are living in poverty as more and more jobs are sent offshore - they are too greedy and self-absorbed to give a dam*.

]]> bubba2 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:01:52 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: This is why Bush's tax cuts are...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1987424 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1987424 This is why Bush's tax cuts are fake. You have to pay a debt eventually. If you cut taxes (or I should say cut intake, since cutting taxes doesn't always cut intake -- but in the case of Bush it did), and increase spending, all you are doing is pushing the taxes on someone else.

]]> wildman6557 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:44:08 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Most of the national debt results...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1987195 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1987195 Most of the national debt results from the fiscal policies of the Republican administrations of Regan, Bush I and Bush II.

Democratic administrations (Kennedy, LBJ, Carter and Clinton) decreased the national debt

National debt expressed as a percentage of the GDP: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

----Democrats: tax and spend

----Republicans: borrow from our children, print money, and SPEND SPEND SPEND

]]> quackpot Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:42:37 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: Is this part of Bush's slowdown?...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1987183 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1987183 Is this part of Bush's slowdown? Sounds more like a depression to me, or at least a recession.

]]> AntiNeoCon Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:33:24 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: America's exploding debt is a ticking...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1986950 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1986950 America's exploding debt is a ticking time-bomb. No one can say for sure what might trigger a crisis and when the bomb might explode, but this much is for sure: America's current level of borrowing is unsustainable.

]]> digitalfever Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:09:32 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: This is despicable.]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1986934 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1986934 This is despicable.

]]> Blackacereturn Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:58:53 EDT <![CDATA[Comment: The taxes you paid on your recently...]]> http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1985904 http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/04/27/us-deep-in-debt-and-still-digging/comment/1985904 The taxes you paid on your recently filed 1040 included roughly $4,300 to cover your household's annual share of the interest payments on the $9.4 trillion in public debt owed by the U.S. government.

That $9.4 trillion is just part of what we as a nation owe collectively. There's also the $700 billion trade deficit we ran up in 2007 as a result of importing more than we exported.

And then there's what we owe individually. Like the $950 billion in credit card debt we owed as of the end of March. And the $1.6 trillion in auto loans and other nonrevolving debt.

]]> engineer Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:19:33 EDT