I have been thinking about how to approach this for a while. There's a lot here so if you can read this and bear with me? Awesome! No way to start it or really get into it without diving right in. We are 21 trillion in debt. The Media is so unreliable and has us focused on everything but the issues that will come back to haunt us. The way they give the government a pass, but always point out what individuals are doing. But lets start with the debt. Like any type of debt based system. Its not always bad. As long as you can make your payments and don't utilize the credit to pay for everyday living. Meaning your mortgage should not be paid with a credit card, vehicles, etc. Now the basic principle is that you don't go way over your head. If you make 50,000 a year and have trouble paying your credit card bills as is and there is no raise in sight. I doubt you're going to be doing things like raising your credit limits every time you max out your cards. Your bank would wise up and look at the spending as a liability that they may not get repaid on. Talk to any person that has gotten a college degree and they will probably tell you all about debt.
So that seems pretty simple right? Well... We have a national debt that has reach unimaginable heights. To the point that you can't use being able to buy bonds and treasuries as an excuse to why we need some debt. It now surpassed our gross domestic product (GDP) and if all our liabilities came due? We would actually owe somewhere in the ballpark of 60 trillion dollars. Now talk to any person right now and they aren't really that concerned about the debt. They think this can keep going on and on and when it doesn't? The government will probably fix it. Right now we added a trillion dollars to the debt in 6 months. While this might sound a little crazy. This phenomenon started right before the Bush years. Shortly after the elimination of Glass Steagall the housing market boom hit. Then we had a bust. The Bush administration doubled the amount of debt to the national debt, Then Obama and I really don't see that changing with Trump with the current Omnibus bill.
We are totally screwed and no one really seems to realize just how bad it is. Right now we hold so much debt that the country is going to go belly up. It is not a matter of if, but when. I am thinking within the next 5 to 6 years. The money in your pocket will not be worth anything. You will not be able to pay your mortgage and will probably be hard pressed to pay for food. The dollar is going to collapse. Its a fiat currency and there are now some states making gold and silver legal tender. Because they see congress has no plan to address it and the if its not republicans increasing spending on things like security. The democrats are promising younger generations all these goodies they know that even taxing the rich won't pay for. Solutions of the free market are all but gone in healthcare, education and anything the government touches to try to make affordable. Makes the prices astronomical.
At this point in the game. It just seems like a controlled destruction of the United States as we know it. Look around you. The news media is more focused on what divides us and drives our hatreds for one another. That is always the recipe for when someone is trying to divide a people. Identity politics has become what kills the United States. A lot of people mainly on the left do not seem to care. If you have no respect for where you live. You will eventually live in a shit hole. And it seems to work! They focus on Race, Sex, Religion, Sexuality, Income, and the list grows more and more everyday. This is not what the media was intended for. To focus on individuals. And the solution is always more government intervention. The US is going to go belly up and in our time of need when it does we will look to the same government that got us there for answers. Do not do that! You have to see the writing on the wall.
So let's use a couple recent incidents to show the media is just gone in terms of having integrity. Over the last 10 years we have seen the left go completely rabid when a cop shoots someone of color. Raving mad! And there are many times they have every reason to be angry. But then we have a school shooting in Florida. Where the FBI doesn't follow policy and doesn't do anything to stop a major threat. The local law enforcement also did nothing despite the many calls to this persons home and then when the shooting was occurring. They stayed put and did not go to confront the shooter. Now what happens when the left hears of this? THEY GET A PASS? The media then blames the NRA and calls for gun control. Can we maybe see the bias a bit? What about the attack in France where "Terrorist" (Term used by the media.) Went through the streets and slaughtered innocent people? They called it a terrorist attack. Then we have the Orlando Shooter who worked for the Federal Government and passed every sort of vetting process. Who went on a rampage and they then blamed the type of weapon and called it a Mass shooting. Same with San Bernardino. I know that this is getting to guns as opposed to budgets, but try to stay with me.
We also have all these protests for social justice, the woman's march, The cocks instead of Glocks campaigns, literally children who are eating tide pods are now telling everyone what rights they can and can't have. It all just seems like controlled opposition. But we don't hear about the debt like we do these other distractions. We don't really hear about anything other than social issues. The government is constantly campaigning to control and even take things away while they spend us into oblivion. This is going to end folks! The nice cars, owning a home, no one is going to survive the next crash. And while we were all focused on which bathroom we should use, the difference between gender and sex, gun control, climate change, abortion. basically all these things where we like to control each other. Those hatreds will be in full play when this all collapses. You will be so focused on it being the democrats or the republicans fault that they will probably usurp even more power. No matter how noble the government may be trying to be. The agencies and lobbies will be seeking to take advantage. They will replace the dollar. They'll blame something like capitalism or bankers. they'll go after private property rights and they'll already have the gun controls they want by the time this happens. the time to do something is now and it may be simpler than we think. We need to start ignoring social issues and focusing on what our government is actually responsible for.
So Solutions? For starters we need to start paying down the debt. Going to Treasury.gov and paying down the debt ourselves. For every dollar you spending copy and paste 100 emails and send them to your senators. Write 100 letters and send them in the mail. With every dollar we send to the treasury we both right and left need to be sending a petition into our senators that we expect a balanced budget and a reduced nation debt. This means no more asking for the government to take care of us. It means taking personal responsibility. Not letting the media divide us and hate one another. We literally have to get together and fast. We are gaining a trillion dollars now every six months to the national debt. We are spending like crazy and the people receiving that money are getting it while the getting is good. We need to cut our spending beyond entitlements. We need to reduce our military presence. Cutting some of the 400 military bases spread across 70 countries in half. We need to stop giving to foreign countries and stop funding research that goes nowhere. The federal government also spends billions on properties that are vacant.
Since 9-11 the debt has skyrocketed. In that time the money supply has increased exponentially. The government has seized some remarkable powers where everything including this is recorded as we found out thanks to Edward Snowden. Project Prism that used private companies to collect information and sell it to the government. The government even mass collects data on everyone and stores it. Now we are seeing the government going after firearms. Its gotten really bad folks. And we, not the government have the power to change it. As for social issues. We need to live and let live. People need to be allowed to be people and not ask for the government to control everything or one another. We are so caught up in our hatreds that we are being played by them. If we don't all come together and fast. We'll all be in the same sinking ship with a government hell bent on damage control and eliminating decent. If not! Enjoy the ride while it lasts.