Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Social Security Reduction Suggestions
Please bear with me on this post. I know it is a long one. I thought about splitting it apart, but it makes a lot more sense to me as a whole, since partial implementation of these ideas are much less effective than all of them. Have ideas to add or want [...]
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
The Real Cost of Federal Debt
We hear about the federal debt and deficit on a regular basis. Yet, what do those Billions and Trillions of dollars mean to us? What can we do about it? What does it do to us? Does it really matter?
I am here to tell you that it does matter. [...]
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Federal Debt Impact on Private Debt
This is the third post in the Federal Debt Discussion series. Previous articles discussed the The Scale of the Federal Debt and The Scale of the Federal Deficit.
The Federal Government borrows money for a lot of different reasons. Some of it goes to funding operations. Some of it is to balance cash flow with expenses. [...]
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
The Scale of the Federal Deficit
This is a post in the Federal Debt Discussion series.
Previously, we discussed The Scale of the Federal Debt. This debt did not magically appear. It has been built up over a number of years, and has gone up and down during that time period based on the annual deficits (and occasional surplus) [...]
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
The Scale of the Federal Debt
This post is part of the Federal Debt Discussion series.
The American National Debt is a staggeringly large number. It is several times larger than the total amount of US Dollars in circulation. Even trying to visualize that much money in stacks or circling the globe many, many times is very difficult to do.
Fortunately, [...]
