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It’s not possible to borrow this much!

The Obama-Pelosi-Reid plan is to borrow $888-billion and spend it, as though that would fix anything.

But who would loan us the money?  Answer:  nobody.  As California has learned, there’s a limit to how much a spendthrift government can borrow.

We’re already in hock to the Chinese for $681-billion, after our government borrowed an extra $227-billion from them in the last year.  The official U.S. Treasury chart of foreign lenders is online.

Even if you assembled every bit of U.S. currency (raiding the bank vaults, kids’ piggy banks, and under the cushions of every sofa), it still wouldn’t be enough to pay for this awful $888-billion bill.  That’s because the total of all U.S. cash in the whole world is only $800-billion.  (Source:  Federal Reserve)

If you think depending on foreign oil is bad, how about depending on foreign money?  Of course, the MidEast and others got that money because we wouldn’t develop our own oil and gas here in America!

Every dollar that our government borrows takes away from a dollar that could have been put to work in the private sector.  And if the liberals try to print more currency rather than borrowing, remember the Weimar Republic! 

Look for more news about this problem very soon!

COMMENTS

  • penguin2

    money, but we certainly are printing this much. GlennBeck@Foxnews.com has an excellent graphic/video of this. Sorry, I don’t know how to link!

    • penguin2

      I meant to put this link http://www.foxnews.com/glennbeck/index.html

      • GreyCloak

        I found a Treasury chart somewhere, but can’t link back to it. The basic table (listing “M1″ and “M2″ money supplies) implies that the Treasury is printing about $20 billion a month (maybe only a quarter?) … the rest will be borrowed.

        The Treasury is currently redeeming notes from the late 70s and early 80s that paid ~13% interest … currently, 30-year notes pay 4 1/2 % interest … 5-years, 1.75% … that means Congress can borrow three to seven times as much money as Carter or Reagan ever did, without changing the “monthly payments.”

        Chinese and the Arab States will continue to buy our debt, if only to ensure a market for their products and their oil.

        The Weimar Republic owed $32 billion in reparations (less than $400B in today’s dollars) … our printing presses are far faster than their’s.

        • TallChE

          the monthly payments are interest only. If they borrow three times as much money, then there is three times as much money to be repaid.

  • zsmvf6
    • zsmvf6

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehl_VQuKRTc

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    inflation is on the horizon, for sure.