By Abolish Tenure
sunday, august 3, 2025 at 9:26:00 a.m. edt
Steyn in 2011: $15 trillion in debt, $100 trillion unfunded liabilities.
Steyn in 2013: $220 trillion, according to the economist Laurence Kotlikoff.
Forbes in 2017: $210 trillion unfunded liabilities
Trump and congress, 2020: fraud magnets, because covid: Stimulus money to everybody. Enhanced unemployment handouts. Paycheck Protection Loans. Employee Retention Credits. Two more rounds of stimulus money to everyone.
2021-2024: Biden/Harris sort of get stuck holding the bag for the inflation caused by that covid stimulus.
republicans in congress, june 2023 - faced with a government shutdown, they add $1.5 trillion to the debt ceiling. For the next 18 months they whine about how Biden/Harris spent the money. What did you fools expect when you gave a pile of money to the democrats with no conditions attached?
sen. Josh Hawley, 2024: The child tax credit should increase to $5,000 and make more of it "refundable," not just a reduction in tax to tax"payers."
Musk and Trump, 2025: $5,000 to everybody, it's a doge dividend, whoopee!
MTG, 2025: We must pass MY bill to rename the gulf of mexico the gulf of America!
Trump and all the republicans but one, 2025: This onebigbeautifulsh*tsandwich bill is the greatest thing ever to save America, and it adds another $5 trillion to the debt ceiling.
Trump, june-july 2025: There's no inflation anymore. I demand a 1% interest rate on the debt before we have to rollover/refi $28 trillion in the very near future. Who's the idiot who hired that Jerome Powell in the first place?
sen. Josh Hawley, July 2025: Look at that tariffs stash! We should send everybody $600 of free money.
U.S. senate, july 2025: senators are working on 2026 appropriations spending bills and have already passed a few of them. They're loaded with dozens of earmarks for various senators' pet projects in their home states. Just like old times!
U.S. house, september 2025: Back from their 5-week vacation, many house republicans speak out against earmarks and pledge to vote "no." rep. Warren Davidson echoes his earlier comment about the onebigbeautifulsh*tsandwich bill, "I'm convinced that the necessary spending cuts will be made."
U.S. house, november 2025: the appropriation bills from the senate are marked up with lots of earmarks by House members for very important projects in their own districts.
President Barron Trump, 2064: I need a $100 trillion increase in the debt ceiling to avoid cutting essential services and to save social security for those few remaining 170-year-olds on the rolls that Elon's whiz kids missed.
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 1:44:00 p.m. edt
Barron Trump--president 2064. That might transpire on the planet "Venous," named for the chronic condition that was originally thought to be his dad's malady--chronic venous insufficiency--but was later discovered to be full heart failure. "Venous," two solar systems away.
Or on the planet "Melania," where Elon Musk moved to with "The Donald's" widow in 2040. These planets were all White, by the way (except for Melania), with shoeshine boys and negro maids, teleported back and forth as needed. --GRA
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Both of us have posted about the deficit,but nothing will change for at least 2 1/2 more years.
And probably longer in the future than the eye and mind can see.
Until...
--GRA
Then again, $1 Trillion of debt seemed like it was going to be the end of the world when we reached that milestone. How much can they blow up the balloon before debt bomb goes boom? $100 Trillion? Higher? if they play cryptocurrency games and start a (ha ha) "sovereign wealth fund". Who will be in the judge and the creditors who decide how to divvy up America Great Again?
I should stop worrying. Our last best chance to fix this has come and gone. "You deserve a break today." A $15 value meal will get my mind off the doom loop. Please order at the touch-screen.
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