The National Debt is $12.3 Trillion!
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Your money is spent through Appropriations Bills passed by The U. S. Senate and signed by the President. The Government does not have any money, it takes your money from you and, and borrows more, then spends that! The bailouts of 2008 and 2009 are purely deficit spending. Expect to see enormous deficits in the forseeable future, leading to much more debt; and interest payments on that debt will become the largest item in the federal budget. On C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: "We are out of money." |
In 1913, when the Federal Reserve was created with the duty of preserving the dollar, one 20-dollar bill could buy one 20-dollar gold piece. Today, fifty 20-dollar bills are needed to buy one 20-dollar gold piece. Under the Fed's custody, the U.S. dollar has lost 98 percent of its value. The dollar is the storehouse of our wealth. Has the Fed faithfully safeguarded that storehouse? Was it not Thomas Jefferson who taught us, "In questions of power let us hear no more of trust in men, but bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution"? |
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The Treasury Department has the second largest expense in the federal budget. Only income redistribution (The Departments of Health and Human Services, HUD, and Agriculture (food stamps)) is higher. As the debt increases, so does the interest payment. Social spending is the largest item in our federal budget. Do you have "Compassion" for lower income earners? |
In Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09), the Treasury Department spent $383 Billion of your money on interest payments to the holders of the National Debt. Compare that to NASA at $19 Billion, Education at $53 Billion, and Department of Transportation at $73 Billion. |
When you buy something, all the companies involved in producing that something and delivering it, were charged a wide range of taxes, and it's part of the cost of everything you buy. The U. S. Leadership is planning to raise all corporate taxes. The price of everything you buy will go up to cover that tax cost increase. You will be paying those corporate taxes! See more on this. Energy Tax! |
The "Economic Stimulus" is shifting us from an "economic crisis" to a debt crisis! Consider this; if businesses could print their own money and give it away to customers so they could buy the products, many folks would be happy for a while; but the businesses would go bankrupt. Well, that's what our government is currently doing, printing and giving away money. |
What is causing this manufactured national budget crisis?
How do we fix this growing debt problem? A balanced budget amendment is one suggested solution.
What's your solution? FAQs and Answers on the Balanced Budget Amendment and Article V of the Constitution.
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OPPOSING VIEWS AND MORE: Are you ready for a Global Tax? |
NOTABLE QUOTES "For society as a whole, nothing comes as a 'right' to which we are 'entitled'. Even bare subsistence has to be produced.... The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it... The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more the providers have to carry the load." Thomas Sowell, quoted in Forbes and Reader's Digest. According to Mr. Kneeland, "...all dollars come from the people. Where do [you] think Coca-Cola gets the money to pay its taxes, Exxon gets its money to pay the Exxon Valdez fines, Denny's gets the money to pay its Justice Department fines, or even Microsoft gets the money to defend itself? It all ultimately can come from only one place, and that's from individuals." ED: When you buy a product, the price of that product has to cover ALL the costs to get that product to you. "A politician cannot spend one dime on any spending project without first taking that dime from the person who earned it. So, when a politician votes for a spending bill he is saying that he believes the government should spend that particular dollar rather than the individual who worked for it." Neal Boortz. "There is no such thing as government money - only taxpayer money." William Weld, quoted in Readers Digest. |
Social Security is not part of the Federal Budget general fund. It is a separate account and has its own source of income. Social Security payments do not go into the general fund, they go in the Social Security trust fund, and should NOT be counted as general revenue. The trust fund is supposed to be used to pay future benefits. But....keep reading.... Here is a link to information about the Social Security Trust Fund. |
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The Federal Government doesn't do anything well. It's inefficient, slow, prone to fraud, and ineffective. Examples? How well did the Securities and Exchange Commission monitor the Madoff situation; how well did FEMA handle Katrina; how well does the INS handle the immigration problem; how well the FDA inspects the food industry, the bailout fiasco.... Government cannot provide a service better than you can arrange it for yourself. Why would you trust the Federal Government to take care of your health or retirement? Government waste examples. |
You are a taxpayer, the Government is taking your money from you and spending it. Is your money being spent the way you want it spent? Have you told your Representative, your Senators? The United States has the best Constitution in the world, but Congress is not paying attention to it? Is there a Constitutional Political Party? Editors note: Actually the Government just makes money whenever it wants to; consider the bailouts of 2008. It does not need income from tax collections to operate. So why have taxation? The tax code is a means to control behavior, it is the epitomy of government power. |
------ Want to know more about the Federal Budget, the National Debt, Taxation? Visit these great web sites. ------
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* It's true that we have to pay interest on the National Debt. But some citizens own a portion of the national debt, in the form of savings bonds and other government bonds. So some of the interest payment goes to them. You may be one of them. You'd want to keep your interest income coming. But the interest payment is being paid by taxpayers, and you may be one of them also...it's a tangled web. |
Gene Simmons is the founder of the National Debt Awareness Campaign (NDAC), and Director of the National Debt Awareness Center. Contact the NDAC by email at director. You are authorized to copy and freely distribute the bar chart and the information provided in this web site; just include a reference to this web site. If you want to link your web site, do it. "Information is the Currency of Democracy." - Thomas Jefferson.
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