US Debt Noose

          United States National Debt Facts...

• It took the country from George Washington until Ronald Reagan—approximately 200 years—to reach the first $1 trillion in debt. 

• Politicians driven by short-term election goals focus on short-term problems. For example, President Bush once told us the problem was shrinking, pointing to  the  annual federal budget deficit, which fell from a high of $413 billion in fiscal 2004 to about $163 billion in fiscal 2007. The debt, meanwhile, continues to explode. 

• All of the taxes you pay, including Social Security, are used for current government services and benefits, NONE of it is saved for OUR future. 

• US Office of Management and Budget, "There is nothing left. There are no finical assets in the Social Security trust fund."

• The Government Accountability Office states , if spending on government retirement programs remains on its current course and revenues grow at their historical averages, interest on the debt could skyrocket from its current 9 percent to almost 50 percent of the budget by 2040.

• Fed Chairman has stated that the time to solve this problem was "ten years ago." Meanwhile, Congressional Quarterly reports that a delay of even 10 years in solving this will triple the impossibility of EVER solving the problem.

• Washington IS absolutely myopically intending to make the nation's fiscal problems much worse by expanding entitlements and bail-outs.  The 2012 US budget calls for adding  more than 3 trillion dollars to the federal debt via deficit spending and as much as another five trillion in unfunded liabilities.