Didn't want to start a new topic, and didn't see any better existing topic than this one. So...
Ran across this website, sort of by accident:
https://www.usdebtclock.org/. May be old news to everyone but, wow, does it pack in a lot of dynamically updated information. And I mean,
a lot.
I'm not very bright--just ask any of my democrat-voting friends--but this web feed should be mentioned by every Republican running for office. In all of those numbers, a starkly dangerous picture is painted.
For example, the current U.S. federal debt-to-GDP ratio is 125.9%. If you throw in state/local spending as well, the total debt-to-GDP ratio is 140.09%.
Now, I was never a presidential advisor in economics, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if, on an annual basis, your debt is 140% of your revenue...well, you're in very big trouble.
The federal debt-to-GDP ratio is shown historically for three years for comparison:
- 1960: 52.3%
- 1980: 34.68%
- 2000: 55.9%
The U.S. has a total employed workforce
smaller now than it did in 2000...even though the population now (not including the millions of undocumented aliens who have crossed our border under Biden) is 333.3 million and in 2000 it was 282.2. So the actual workforce since 2000 has
decreased 0.5% while the population has
increased by 18.1%.
The official unemployed number is 5.72 million; the
actual unemployed number is 10.45 million. There are
34.65% more people receiving Medicaid than are receiving Medicare. Of our population of 333.3 million, an estimated 40.82 million are living at the federal poverty level, 12.2%. Statistically, 1 in every 9 people you see is at the federal poverty level, and many living on the government dole. There are over 38.5 million food stamp recipients, 11.5% of the total population.
The U.S. has over $7.48 trillion in debt held by foreign countries. The U.S. trade deficit with China alone is over $416 billion. The federal government has over $172.153 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
All of this while Biden tells us that the economy is strong and that inflation is just in our imaginations.
Only 16 days until election day! Urge everybody you can to cast their ballots. And let us pray that millions of dead dimocrats don't cast theirs...