JUST THE FACTS FOLKS.<\/p>\n
Subject: Debt News 1 – save this one<\/p>\n
The following are 27 shocking facts about U.S. debt that should set America on fire with anger….
\n#1 During fiscal year 2011, the U.S. government spent 3.7 trillion dollars but it only brought in 2.4 trillion dollars.
\n#2 When Ronald Reagan took office, the U.S. national debt was less than 1 trillion dollars. Today, the U.S. national debt is over 15.2 trillion dollars.
\n#3 During 2011, U.S. debt surpassed 100 percent of GDP for the first time ever.
\n#4 According to Wikipedia, the monetary base “consists of coins, paper money (both as bank vault cash and as currency circulating in the public), and commercial banks’ reserves with the central bank.” Currently the U.S. monetary base is sitting somewhere around 2.7 trillion dollars. So if you went out and gathered all of that money up it would only make a small dent in our national debt. But afterwards there would be no currency for anyone to use.
\n#5 The U.S. government spent over 454 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt during fiscal 2011.
\n#6 The U.S. government has total assets of 2.7 trillion dollars and has total liabilities of 17.5 trillion dollars.
\n#7 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.
\n#8 It is being projected that the U.S. national debt will surpass 23 trillion dollars in 2015.
\n#9 According to the GAO, the U.S. government is facing 34 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities for social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
\n#10 Others estimate that the unfunded liabilities of the U.S. government now total over 117 trillion dollars.
\n#11 According to the GAO, the ratio of debt held by the public to GDP is projected to reach 287 percent of GDP by 2086.
\n#12 Others are much less optimistic. A recently revised IMF policy paper entitled \u201cAn Analysis of U.S. Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: Who Will Pay and How?\u201d projects that U.S. government debt will rise to about 400 percent of GDP by the year 2050.
\n#13 The United States government is responsible for more than a third of all the government debt in the entire world.
\n#14 If you divide up the national debt equally among all U.S. taxpayers, each taxpayer would owe approximately $134,685.
\n#15 Mandatory federal spending surpassed total federal revenue for the first time ever in fiscal 2011. That was not supposed to happen until 50 years from now.
\n#16 Between 2007 and 2010, U.S. GDP grew by only 4.26%, but the U.S. national debt soared by 61% during that same time period.
\n#17 During Barack Obama’s first two years in office, the U.S. government added more to the U.S. national debt than the first 100 U.S. Congresses combined.
\n#18 When you add up all spending by the federal government, state governments and local governments, it comes to 46.6% of GDP.
\n#19 Our nation is more addicted to government checks than ever before. In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for 18.4% of all income.
\n#20 U.S. households are now actually receiving more money directly from the U.S. government than they are paying to the government in taxes.
\n#21 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.
\n#22 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.
\n#23 In 1950, each retiree’s Social Security benefit was paid for by 16 U.S. workers. According to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are now only 1.75 full-time private sector workers for each person that is receiving Social Security benefits in the United States.
\n#24 The U.S. government now says that the Medicare trust fund will run out five years faster than they were projecting just last year.
\n#25 Right now, spending by the federal government accounts for about 24 percent of GDP. Back in 2001, it accounted for just 18 percent.
\n#26 If the U.S. government was forced to use GAAP accounting principles (like all publicly-traded corporations must), the U.S. government budget deficit would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 trillion to $5 trillion each and every year.
\n#27 The U.S. national debt is now more than 5000 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was created back in 1913.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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