While we watch the election process unfold, skewed polls and sound bites are used to mask the real issues: the debt and war. The national debt quietly hit $16 trillion less than one month ago and now $200 billion has been added to bring the total debt to $16.2 trillion. Our debt is going parabolic in an upward death spiral and no candidates on any level are addressing this “issue”. Of course, Ben Bernanke is addressing it: the printing presses are at full throttle to redistribute our life’s savings into free housing to buy votes.
America is at the crossroads for its very survival. If Congress cannot even pass a budget, does it really matter who wins the presidential election? The answer is yes with a qualified “but”. The federal government is broken in all three branches. Once the Constitution was abandoned, the rule of law has degraded to a system based on class structure and the producers are now the oppressed. What can we do? Prepare for it.
David DeGerolamo
From Zerohedge:
Yesterday we brought you the news that US debt quietly soared by $90 billion overnight to celebrate the new fiscal year end, reaching $16.2 trillion and sending total US debt to GDP to 103%. Needless to say, this comes at an exciting time, with the first Wall Street muppet presidential debate in about 12 hours, where the US debt crisis will be a front and center topic because in about 2 months, the US debt ceiling will again be breached adding to the Fiscal Cliff fiasco, resulting in a flashback to August 2011 when the market had to tumble by nearly 20% for Congress to get the hint that first and foremost its job is to make sure the money on Wall Street keeps flowing, all else secondary. And while it has become fashionable to say that US debt rose by this much under that president, the truth is that the Presidency is merely one of three institutions that are responsible for the shape of the US debt-to-GDP line (which is now going from the lower left to the upper right by default). The other two are, of course, Congress and the Senate. Luckily, to simply things substantially, we have a handy graphic (see above) from today’s Bloomberg Brief which conveniently plots not only the political affiliation of the presidency, but of the House and Senate, in the chronology of the US debt crisis.
It looks like it doesn’t matter who is in charge, Dems or Repubs. The one common factor is it’s the politicians. Both parties point fingers at each other but both parties are lying to us. It’s about living outside their means. They all get theirs and to hell with the common people because we have only bad choices to choose from. Politicians, lawyers, sarealestate agents, liars all the same to me. You can catch a thief but you can’t catch a liar…