So what if the deficit is 490 billion? Lets shoot for a trillion a year!
I think it’s A-OK to want to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis around the world, but why does the total cost always fall upon the American taxpayer?
How much money is China kicking in? Saudi Arabia? France? Germany? Japan? Switzerland? The United Arab Emirates? Venezuela? Korea? Do I hear the sound of crickets?
We’re WAY past a trillion a year.
What with stealing from the various “trust funds” in the US Treasury, sale of Treasury bonds to foreign governments (to settle our trade deficit) and expanding the authorized debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion in the dead of night, our built-in future obligations are fast approaching our national net worth, public AND private.
And who is there to bail out the US Treasury? There is no consortium that big in the Universe.