U.S. government borrowing and spending never stops.

The federal government ran another big deficit in June, as the national debt inches closer to $35 trillion.

$35 trillion USD.

Trillion with a 'T.'

That's an unfathomable number. It's meaningless to most people. We simply can't comprehend a number that big.

Let's try to put the $34.9 trillion national debt into perspective.

According to the National Debt Clock, every American citizen would have to write a check for $103,565 to pay off the national debt.

Of course, a lot of people don't pay taxes. That means the taxpayer burden is much higher. Every U.S. taxpayer would have to write a check for $266,953 to wipe out the debt. And that's on top of the taxes we already pay!

To put it another way, $35 trillion is more than the total economies of China, Japan, Germany, and the UK combined.
Visualizing 1 Trillion

1,000,000,000,000

It's hard to wrap your head around how big 1 trillion is, much less 35 trillion. Here are a few factoids to help you visualize just how big that number is:

- There are 1 million seconds in 11.5 days. A trillion seconds is about 32,000 years.
- If you could say one number every second, it would take about 11.5 million days to count to 1 trillion.
- If you had spent $1 million every day since the birth of Christ, you still wouldn't have spent $1 trillion.
- If you line up dollar bills end-to-end, you could go to the moon and back around 203 times with $1 trillion. You could wrap them around the earth about 3,893 times.
- If you stacked up 1 trillion dollar bills, the dollar tower would rise to 67,866 miles.
- If a cup of coffee costs $3, you could buy 333 billion cups of coffee with $1 trillion.
- If you had 1 trillion dollars, you could give every person on Earth approximately $125.
- One trillion grains of rice would weigh about 20,000 metric tons.

Keep in mind that all of these examples only illustrate the size of $1 trillion. The national debt is nearly 35 times that number.

More: https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2024/07/15/putting-the-national-debt-into-perspective-we-can-all-understand-003319

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So here's a good one....

A new stupid rule goes into effect August 1st stating that Canadians may not bring their dogs to the U.S. unless it has paperwork from a vet, a photo ID of the dog, and a certification from a vet that the dog has no rabies. Both countries do a great job of keeping rabies out of the countries.

The rule has been put into effect by the Centers for Disease Control. I'll bet you some bureaucrat at the CDC wanted to get promoted so they proposed this stupid rule and now everyone will have to suffer through it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/u-s-border-dog-rules-new-1.7266031

This is what an out-of-control unelected bureaucracy looks like. They just keep making up things because they have too much time on their hands.

Um, isn't this consistent with America First?

Don't bring your diseased animals across our border.

What about diseased people from the southern border? That's OK, huh?

Agencies don’t make immigration law. Just a heads up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So here's a good one....

A new stupid rule goes into effect August 1st stating that Canadians may not bring their dogs to the U.S. unless it has paperwork from a vet, a photo ID of the dog, and a certification from a vet that the dog has no rabies. Both countries do a great job of keeping rabies out of the countries.

The rule has been put into effect by the Centers for Disease Control. I'll bet you some bureaucrat at the CDC wanted to get promoted so they proposed this stupid rule and now everyone will have to suffer through it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/u-s-border-dog-rules-new-1.7266031

This is what an out-of-control unelected bureaucracy looks like. They just keep making up things because they have too much time on their hands.

Um, isn't this consistent with America First?

Don't bring your diseased animals across our border.

What about diseased people from the southern border? That's OK, huh?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the White House, who is actually making decisions on policy. Is it Jill? Is it Kamala? Is it Jeff Zients? Someone else?

Not a Biden supporter but I will admit that my family has done fine under him the past few years. I just feel that as a taxpaying American citizen I deserve to know who is actually making decisions in the White House.

Who is the man and/or woman behind the curtain?

The bigger question is who will control Trump in a second term? Putin? Project 25? Leonard Leo? A cabal of loyalists like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon? The Saudis via their 2 billion investment in Jared's investment firm?

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That’s the billion dollar question!

Jared and AIPAC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ll know for sure if Hunter is in charge if the National Endowment for the Arts gets a $billion to subsidize lap dances for struggling artists.

Hunter struggling? He's making millions.

That’s why he’s fighting for The Big Guy to keep his 4 hours a day job.

Meanwhile Jared Kushner is rubbing his hands gleefully imagining how many more billions he can get from Saudi Arabia or other countries seeking to influence his FIL.

Wow, not even trying to mask the antisemitism anymore, hm?

What on earth does this have to do with antisemitism? Or did you miss the billions he made the last time? You think people do deals with Jared because he’s a fabulous businessman?

Jared is a Democrat.

Jared is a Zionist.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the White House, who is actually making decisions on policy. Is it Jill? Is it Kamala? Is it Jeff Zients? Someone else?

Not a Biden supporter but I will admit that my family has done fine under him the past few years. I just feel that as a taxpaying American citizen I deserve to know who is actually making decisions in the White House.

Who is the man and/or woman behind the curtain?

The bigger question is who will control Trump in a second term? Putin? Project 25? Leonard Leo? A cabal of loyalists like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon? The Saudis via their 2 billion investment in Jared's investment firm?

.
That’s the billion dollar question!

Everyone knows Trump doesn’t need anyone’s money like the big guy does, and the rest of his elk. But dream on.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truth is the president doesn’t matter and congress doesn’t really matter either. Red team blue team is nonsense for the proles to follow on TV so they believe they have any say. DC swamp lifers and global billionaires run the show and have been running the show since JFK was clipped, maybe before too, who knows.

Certainly something to consider.

Yes! The 1%’ ers run the show. A select elite few of them pull the puppet strings. The rest are in the gallery and have a say. The play with political sway, stocks, gold(solid and liquid) and land. The world is their playing field. The Ultimate Game of Thrones! Follow the money and see who owns media, foods conglomerates, oil, elite real estate and there you go! They create all this red and blue nonsense to appease the masses and keep them guessing and groveling against one another. I know better. That is why I do not subscribe. I do not vote, watch televised garbage nor spend insane amounts of time gathering info from fb and Twitter. Read the court docket and see what is coming down the pipe. Read plans laid out by these groups to see what they have in store. Learn about these kingpins who are at the top. And learn to think for yourself and make a strategic plan to insure that you and your children survive and live fruitful lives.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the White House, who is actually making decisions on policy. Is it Jill? Is it Kamala? Is it Jeff Zients? Someone else?

Not a Biden supporter but I will admit that my family has done fine under him the past few years. I just feel that as a taxpaying American citizen I deserve to know who is actually making decisions in the White House.

Who is the man and/or woman behind the curtain?

The bigger question is who will control Trump in a second term? Putin? Project 25? Leonard Leo? A cabal of loyalists like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon? The Saudis via their 2 billion investment in Jared's investment firm?

.
That’s the billion dollar question!

Anonymous wrote:It's Hunter battling with Barron, deep down. they control the strings

Put down the crack pipe Hunter.

It's Hunter battling with Barron, deep down. they control the strings

Anonymous wrote:Truth is the president doesn’t matter and congress doesn’t really matter either. Red team blue team is nonsense for the proles to follow on TV so they believe they have any say. DC swamp lifers and global billionaires run the show and have been running the show since JFK was clipped, maybe before too, who knows.

Certainly something to consider.

Anonymous wrote:So here's a good one....

A new stupid rule goes into effect August 1st stating that Canadians may not bring their dogs to the U.S. unless it has paperwork from a vet, a photo ID of the dog, and a certification from a vet that the dog has no rabies. Both countries do a great job of keeping rabies out of the countries.

The rule has been put into effect by the Centers for Disease Control. I'll bet you some bureaucrat at the CDC wanted to get promoted so they proposed this stupid rule and now everyone will have to suffer through it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/u-s-border-dog-rules-new-1.7266031

This is what an out-of-control unelected bureaucracy looks like. They just keep making up things because they have too much time on their hands.

Um, isn't this consistent with America First?

Don't bring your diseased animals across our border.

Anonymous wrote:So here's a good one....

A new stupid rule goes into effect August 1st stating that Canadians may not bring their dogs to the U.S. unless it has paperwork from a vet, a photo ID of the dog, and a certification from a vet that the dog has no rabies. Both countries do a great job of keeping rabies out of the countries.

The rule has been put into effect by the Centers for Disease Control. I'll bet you some bureaucrat at the CDC wanted to get promoted so they proposed this stupid rule and now everyone will have to suffer through it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/u-s-border-dog-rules-new-1.7266031

This is what an out-of-control unelected bureaucracy looks like. They just keep making up things because they have too much time on their hands.

This is a poor example of an “out-of-control unelected bureaucracy” at work.

Unless we are suddenly concerned with getting the votes of Canadian citizens, this is a huge Nothingburger

So here's a good one....

A new stupid rule goes into effect August 1st stating that Canadians may not bring their dogs to the U.S. unless it has paperwork from a vet, a photo ID of the dog, and a certification from a vet that the dog has no rabies. Both countries do a great job of keeping rabies out of the countries.

The rule has been put into effect by the Centers for Disease Control. I'll bet you some bureaucrat at the CDC wanted to get promoted so they proposed this stupid rule and now everyone will have to suffer through it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/u-s-border-dog-rules-new-1.7266031

This is what an out-of-control unelected bureaucracy looks like. They just keep making up things because they have too much time on their hands.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ll know for sure if Hunter is in charge if the National Endowment for the Arts gets a $billion to subsidize lap dances for struggling artists.

Hunter struggling? He's making millions.

That’s why he’s fighting for The Big Guy to keep his 4 hours a day job.

Meanwhile Jared Kushner is rubbing his hands gleefully imagining how many more billions he can get from Saudi Arabia or other countries seeking to influence his FIL.

Wow, not even trying to mask the antisemitism anymore, hm?

What on earth does this have to do with antisemitism? Or did you miss the billions he made the last time? You think people do deals with Jared because he’s a fabulous businessman?

Jared is a Democrat.