If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people
under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. - Thomas Jefferson


Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Stop Watch Part 2

I was looking at the Gross National Debt clock I posted on the left from zFacts.

2 things:
1.) I'm sure its not real-time by any means, but it takes 7 seconds for our national debt to go up by $1 MILLION!

2.) It wasn't too long ago that the clock ran out of digits. It took almost 20 years to get it from $2.9 TRILLION to $10 TRILLION. We've added $0.5 TRILLION in A FUCKING WEEK AND A HALF!!!!

My buddy the other day says: "Fucking Bush. He's eliminated my ability to earn a reasonable living for the rest of my adult life. I'm making less now than I was 10 years ago and it only looks to be getting worse." Blame Bush or not (IMHO: he didn't cause the problems, he enabled them to spiral out of control. His war is expensive, but not expensive enough to destroy us...), it seems as though our generation is the beginning of that 'future' generation that we keep shoving our debt off on. I've always known I'm not going to get any social security. Now it seems I'll be lucky if my parents die before the end of social security payments. I just hope they stop charging me for social security when they stop paying it out and that they don't just keep up the tax to pay the interest on the $500 BILLION dollars we borrowed since the debt clock ran out of numbers 12 days ago.

I think I'm starting to get scared. It may take the rest of Generation X and Y before there is any kind of standard of living again. By that time we won't have an environment left. Is it possible that we're past the peak of humanity?

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