One day, we'll recognize the debt we owe to the likes of Amy Goodman and Bill Moyers.....

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53. Is the Debt Really "$222 Trillion Dollars"? Talk to me!

After the gerrymander of Indian Hill, Ohio, into district one, we may as well all be Republicans. Our views differ. Are we going forward, dealing with our fiscal problems; or, are we going back into time when only white landholders were allowed to vote, and women were less valuable than slaves, because they could not be sold.

Our government was a Plutocracy then; and, it is a Plutocracy now. It is not a representative Republic, and certainly not a democracy. Why, because most legislators and votes are hired and purchased by big money interests.

If the debt is our main problem, and it is, what is the debt? The debt we hear discussed, $16/17 Trillion dollars, is basically the annual payment on the debt. The real debt is all that has been promised to be paid, minus all that is expected as income during the time the debt exists. The real debt is “$222 Trillion” over several decades. Put that, with quotation marks, into Google and read. These are OMB figures.

http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/01/economist_laurence_kotlikoff_us_222_trillion_in_debt_363.html

WE are bankrupt. There are those who can convene, who have the background, and the ideas, to dig us out of this fiscal hole, without destroying the currency, the economy, our safety nets, and our personal lives. The question is, are we willing to listen, and act? If we are to solve our problems, we must have leadership with the brains, and independence to take us there.

The diversions of abortion, birth control, gun control, and a host of other social issues, must not detract from the irresponsible fiscal management of this country. None of these issues will matter if the majority of the population is dumpster diving, and stealing food from their neighbors, due to a collapse of the economy.