Let's talk numbers, shall we?
The national debt (the amount the federal government has borrowed over the years and must pay back) is $23 trillion and growing.
The amount this country owes is now greater than its gross national product (all the products and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by the citizens). We're paying more than $270 billion just in interest on that public debt annually. And the top two foreign countries who "own" our debt are China and Japan.
The national deficit (the difference between what the government spends and the revenue it takes in) is projected to surpass $1 trillion every year for the next 10 years.
The United States spends more on foreign aid than any other nation ($50 billion in 2017 alone). More than 150 countries around the world receive U.S. taxpayer-funded assistance, with most of the funds going to the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Meanwhile, almost 60% of Americans are so financially strapped that they don't have even $500 in savings and nothing whatsoever put away for retirement, and yet they are being forced to pay for government programs that do little to enhance or advance their lives.
Folks, if you haven't figured it out yet, we're not living the American dream.
We're living a financial nightmare.
The U.S. governmentand that includes the current administrationis spending money it doesn't have on programs it can't afford, and "we the taxpayers" are the ones who will pay for it.
As financial analyst Kristin Tate explains, "When the government has its debt bill come due, all of us will be on the hook." It's happened before: during the European debt crisis, Cypress seized private funds from its citizens' bank accounts to cover its debts, with those who had been careful to save their pennies forced to relinquish between 40% to 60% of their assets.
Could it happen here? Could the government actually seize private funds for its own gain?
Look around you. It's already happening.
In the eyes of the government, "we the people, the voters, the consumers, and the taxpayers" are little more than pocketbooks waiting to be picked.
Consider: The government can seize your home and your car (which you've bought and paid for) over nonpayment of taxes. Government agents can freeze and seize your bank accounts and other valuables if they merely "suspect" wrongdoing. And the IRS insists on getting the first cut of your salary to pay for government programs over which you have no say.
We have no real say in how the government runs, or how our taxpayer funds are used, but we're being forced to pay through the nose, anyhow.
We have no real say, but that doesn't prevent the government from fleecing us at every turn and forcing us to pay for endless wars that do more to fund the military industrial complex than protect us, pork barrel projects that produce little to nothing, and a police state that serves only to imprison us within its walls.
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