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U.S. Government Piles on $2 Trillion in Additional Debt in 2010

According to a U.S. Treasury report released Tuesday, the U.S. government fell $2 trillion deeper into debt during fiscal 2010 as government debt and promised federal benefits increased, bringing the nation’s 2010 deficit to more than $13.5 trillion compared to $11 trillion in 2009.  Reuters reports:

The Financial Report of the United States, which applies corporate-style accrual accounting methods to Washington, showed the government’s liabilities exceeded assets by $13.473 trillion. That compared with a $11.456 trillion gap a year earlier.

Unlike the normal measurement of government intake of receipts against cash outlays, accrual accounting measures costs such as interest on the debt and federal benefits payable when they are incurred, not when funds are actually disbursed.

The report was instituted under former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, the first Treasury secretary in the George W. Bush administration, to illustrate the mounting liabilities of government entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

The government’s net operating cost, or deficit, in the report grew to $2.080 trillion for the year ended September 30 from $1.253 trillion the prior year as spending and liabilities increased for social programs. Actual and anticipated revenues were roughly unchanged.

The cash budget deficit narrowed in fiscal 2010 to $1.294 trillion from $1.417 trillion in 2009. But the $858 billion tax cut extension package enacted last week is expected to keep the deficit well above the $1 trillion mark for another year.

This latest Treasury report should put pressure on the incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives in January.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner responded to the new report by saying that the U.S. faces “significant and persistent challenges” as the budgetary shortfalls from programs like unemployment insurance, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid continue to rise.

“We must balance our efforts to accelerate economic recovery and job growth in the near term with continued efforts to address the challenges posed by the long-term deficit outlook,” Geithner said in today’s report.

Comments (126)

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  • komponist-ZAH
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:49pm

    Thank you, “progressives”!!

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:59pm

      The Progressive Movement: Bringing you more government, less freedom, and massive debt since 1913.

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  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:09pm

    2 trillion? is that all???? let me reach into Barney Franks purse……

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  • traderdan
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:00pm

    as we keep stacking more and more dependants our debt grows exponentially with every year

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  • wash1776
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:50pm

    The national debt never increased anywhere near this fast until Obumble and his mafia cohorts took office.They are deliberately trying to ruin this country.

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  • fyvagirl
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:37pm

    Of course we working Americans will pay it off!! Jan 5,2011 should be the start of getting some of this under control. Our newly elected officials had better have the back bone to stand up for all of us who voted for a real change, we the people pay their salaries. Here’s a thought..what if all the congress worked for $1 for, say 2 years and no perks, wouldn’t that help our zillion dollar debt?

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    • 5410amh
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:50pm

      FYVAGIRL:

      what do you expect the new congress to about it our funded debt is 13.5 trillion our real total debt is around 54 trillion so please explain what the new congress will do to get our debt under control. read my comment that I left on this page about the feds spending and tell me what you think they will do!

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  • spendthrift
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:30pm

    Pile it on, just remember that piles will run down hill…….

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  • 5410amh
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:30pm

    this will only get worse on till the fed stops borrowing and spending so much. but where are they going to cut, medicade, social security, and the military account for 3/4 of the feds spending not including obamacare. there’s only 500 billion left ot cut after you take out all of that. and the repubs won’t cut half that

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:29pm

      Unfortunately true. “Entitlement” reform is going to have to put on the table; we can’t continue with our current Social inSecurity and Medicare programs much longer.

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  • Eblaze44
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:29pm

    Everyone should remember – the progressives – Republicans and Democrats – said Timmy Geithner was the ONLY person that could fix this problem – Your really do need a doctor when you are sick, not a quack. Of course, it’s the greedy people that have caused this mess, politicians – greedy for more power and socialism, people buying into their house being an investment instead of a home and continuing to pay for exorbitant overpriced homes (houses should depreciate with age, just like a car does – even when proper maintenance is done) that require more and more “improvements”, houses made with inferior products that were further designed poorly, products for which the cost increased in direct proportion to decreased quality, greed of the government in their property valuation (brings them more taxes), greed of the seller (understandable that they would like to get more money), greed of the realtor as well as the mortgage lender. Instead of a place to raise our family in a nice neighborhood with a nearby school, shopping, it was made an “instrument” of making money, while the value in fact, because of wear and tear, dropped. People continue to pay more money than a house is worth, often because “upgrades” using inferior grade material is used in it.

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  • justice
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:26pm

    Here comes our Global Union backed Society. Thanks for the idiots that voted these nuts in !

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  • milig
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:26pm

    It is all Bush’s fault. He forced 0bama to spend all this money we don’t have. Somehow.

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    • JackOfTrades
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:40pm

      you do realize when the economy started to nose-dive, the libs had the house and senate right? Why do people always miss that?

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:31am

      …and alot of the regulations and shady dealings that crashed the housing market belonged to the dems. After all they were only trying to help us, right?

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  • stopspendingourmoney
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:18pm

    Don’t fall for a 1 one world order to fix all this or that will be the end of our freedom..thats what they are hoping on..

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    • ADDICTED TO TRUTH
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:09pm

      I believe one good catastrophe would get the deed done. Very FEW ppl really understand what’s going on, They just know something is OFF. In an emergency situation they would accept anything.

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  • sullinsea
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:18pm

    George Bush added another $2 Trillion of government debt this year?!?!? How did he do that? I gues we must have miunderestimated him again. :-)

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  • Ironmaan
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:16pm

    This cant go on forever. At some point it ends and ends badly. Get some gold because all your greenbacks will be good for will be to put Mr. Whipple out of business. guerillatics.com

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:14pm

    Obviously Obama’s fault. That’s his success. Obama hasn’t failed is for increasing job loss and debt. Way to go! The door is open for the democrats to introduce their new party member Joe Simms

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:14pm

    Time to start learning Mandarin…

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:23pm

      Dirty little secret: China will keep lending as long as we are willing to keep buying, borrowing and printing. China has to add something like 25 Million (!) jobs a year to keep from imploding and they need our market to do that. So those Mandarin lessons are not such a bad idea because you want to be able speak some of the bosses lingo. The other problem is though, when you are stretched this tightly, it doesn’t take too much of an unforeseen tug to make the whole thing snap.

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  • TonyDarrington
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:11pm

    What are we going to do about the debt? There is no conceivable way of paying it off. Even if we stripped the Federal government down to what it is supposed to be and get rid of all of the unconstitutional federal social programs, this debt can never be paid off. Really, what course of action is there?

    http://takeitoutside.forumotion.com

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  • Xcori8r
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:10pm

    I don’t think folks (especially in DC) understand… trying to fix this will be like trying to float the Titanic. Not entirely impossible, but darn near impossible.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:09pm

    Until we can get the Communist Liberals out of office this is just going to get worse. They have no intentions of cleaning up this mess. In fact they are counting on it getting worse so that they can turn AMERICA into a Socialist State. Then rebuild it in their view.

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:33pm

      So you want them to clean up the Republican catastrophe? If those tax cuts mean more jobs, then why has and is the economy, with the tax cuts, losing the most jobs since the depression?

      If there were a stronger word for ignorance, name it Tea Party

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:52pm

      Let’s face it, this is not Democrat problem, this is a politician problem.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:05am

      @13 the only ignorant one on this site is the one who believes that they are tax cuts . it is not a tax cut, it is keeping them where they are. i take it you believe that the rich are evil and that the obama administration are only trying to save us from the evil rich people, well you deserve what you get,because i have never worked for a poor person and if i am right nor have you. you need to quit drinking that communist kool -aid , because in case you have been a sleep for the last 2 years the democrats have tried to ram a communist agenda down the american peoples throat, so wake up and read the bills and then make a common sense comment.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:25am

      13degeneration is a huffy poster-boy google his user name.

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    • kramh
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 7:19am

      Hey 13, tax cuts do work wonders for the economy if we cut spending at the same time.
      Big spending cuts!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 8:22am

      13th…get back in the corner and keep playing with your poop like a good commie…

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  • WAR PIGS CRAWLING
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:09pm

    What’s a couple trillion dollars amongst friends???

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:35pm

      Generals gathered in their masses
      Just like witches at black masses
      Evil minds that plot destruction
      Sorcerers of death’s construction
      In the fields the bodies burning
      As the war machine keeps turning
      Death and hatred to mankind
      Poisoning their brainwashed minds
      Oh lord yeah!

      Politicians hide themselves away
      They only started the war
      Why should they go out to fight?
      They leave that role to the poor

      Time will tell on their power minds
      Making war just for fun
      Treating people just like pawns in chess
      Wait ’til their judgement day comes
      Yeah!

      Now in darkness world stops turning
      Ashes where the bodies burning
      No more war pigs have the power
      Hand of God has struck the hour
      Day of judgement, God is calling
      On their knees the war pig’s crawling
      Begging mercy for their sins
      Satan laughing spreads his wings
      Oh lord yeah!

      By Ozzy Osborn

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:15pm

      America, where are you now?
      Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
      Don’t you know we need you now,
      We can’t fight alone against the monster.

      Steppenwolf — I still the the original vinyl from back in the day

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 7:40pm

      http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/thanks-to-dirty-harry-reid-overt-act-of.html

      You take a mortal man
      And put him in control
      Watch him become a god
      Watch peoples heads a ‘roll
      A ‘roll, a ‘roll

      Just like the pied piper
      Led rats through the streets
      We dance like Marionettes
      Swaying to the symphony of destruction

      Acting like a robot
      It’s metal brain corrodes
      You try to take its pulse
      Before the head explodes
      Explodes, explodes

      Just like the pied piper
      Led rats through the streets
      We dance like Marionettes
      Swaying to the symphony

      Just like the pied piper
      Led rats through the streets
      We dance like Marionettes
      Swaying to the symphony
      Swaying to the symphony of destruction

      The earth starts to rumble
      World powers fall
      A warring for the heavens
      A peaceful man stands tall
      Tall, tall

      Just like the pied piper
      Led rats through the streets
      We dance like Marionettes
      Swaying to the symphony

      Just like the pied piper
      Led rats through the streets
      We dance like Marionettes
      Swaying to the symphony
      Swaying to the symphony of destruction

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  • missmarie
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:05pm

    Merry Christmas kids and grandkids – you are now the proud owners of even more unsustainable debt! Don’t forget to send a thank you card to the progressives in Washington!

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  • John 1776
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:04pm

    Funny, I didn’t see this report on MSNBC…. People have to wake up and realize that the reason businesses use accrued accounting methods is to track when debt is actually occurring.

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  • silveracer44
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:03pm

    There is NO WAY to repay that debt! When are we going to STAND UP and DO something?!

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    • Dale
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:21pm

      If all goes well 5 January 2011.

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    • silveracer44
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:37pm

      Wow, you put a lot of faith in this new Congress…I don’t have a lot of faith in them, but hopefully you’re right.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 5:22am

      Too late…Hyperinflation is coming. Life as we know it is about to change.

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  • Midwest Blonde
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:02pm

    if the feds would quit sabotaging the FREE MARKET enterprise, this country wouldn‘t be in half the mess it’s in now! Can NOT wait till the new congress is seated!!!

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:26pm

      The corrupt “free” market and deregulation is why the economy crashed. Are that stupid or just to lazy to think?

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:32pm

      @13th–
      What deregulation, specifically?
      Even if it were true, what’s wrong with that? Read up on the forest-fires in Yosemite sometime.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:20am

      !3th Degeneration And the Libs & Acorn forcing banks to hand out home loans to people that couldn’t afford them and backing these loans with tax dollars had nothing to do with it.

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:24am

      Still waiting, 13th….

      The fallaciousness of the “it was deregulation that caused the economy to collapse!” argument would be enough to make me laugh, if it weren’t for the fact that it is so ardently believed by so many, and therefore used as an excuse for more regulation.
      The “reasoning” runs thusly: A conservative* Republican was in office. The ecomony went into recession. Conservative Republican policies caused the recession.

      Can I get a post hoc ergo propter hoc, anyone?
      —————————————————————————————————————————————————

      *George W. Bush was hardly what I would call a fiscal conservative, but I’m gerneralizing.

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:27am

      Oops! I mean *generalizing*.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 5:19am

      13th..There ya go again, showing your STUPIDITY…Where do you buy that stuff you drink that turns you into an utter MORON?

      13th, I have seen a lot of dumb people, you are the dumbest…

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 7:32am

      People spew uniformed garbage about tax cuts for the rich and these blind talking points, don’t you know there are no tax cuts? It is either taxes stay the same or they greatly increase in January! There are no tax cuts you stupid liberals!
      You want to blame tax cuts but never talk about wasteful spending, we could actually lower taxes and even pay off some of the Federal debt if congress would stop their wasteful spending and end their entitlement programs which are always doomed to fail as soon as they are signed into existence!
      Essentially what I am seeing is that legally the US government can spend as much money as they want give it to whoever they want, including foreigners, and the American taxpayer can do nothing but open his pocket and pay for it because that is the law.
      How is this legal?
      What if suddenly Obama said, lets’ give China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Cuba, Russia and Venezuela 10 trillion each for a special world peace fund and then the congress passed it. What could the US taxpayer do? Nothing! but open your pocket and pay for it!
      This is why the people must take control, they must start electing the right people to represent them in congress or else things like this can happen.
      This is exactly why we are in the trouble we are in financially because we have allowed traitors to easily walk right into positions of power because all we cared about was how much our investments were rising and letting the good times role on. Now we are suffering the consequences of not paying attention and holding those in power accountable.
      Now if more crucial than ever that we band together, spread the word and create a nationalist movement to take our country back and bring it back to the principles of the founding fathers!

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  • Blakeam
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:00pm

    Shocker!

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:11pm

      Zimbabwe here we come! http://guerillatics.com

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    • Barry Soetoro
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:38am

      Shocker?!! You mean to say you’re actually surprised? Let me be clear, you folks are tolerating a socialist progressive/communist usurper to act as president. What did you think I was going to do, honor your Constitution and protect your best financial interests. NOT!

      But hey, it’s only your freedom and a little paper fiat money. Get you wheelbarrows ready, you’ll need one to buy bread soon. Make no mistake, Michelle and I laugh ourselves to sleep every night knowing that you’re still looking for my non-existent birth certificate, rather than waking up to the fact that a “natural born citizen” is one “born in the U.S. of U.S. citizen parents” (plural) and my Kenyan British father means I don’t have TWO U.S. citizen parents!

      Actually, addition to being British by birth, I may also be a Kenyan and an Indonesian citizen but certainly not American. My mother didn’t spend enough time in the country when I was a child to confer U.S. citizenship on me. Think it can’t get any worse? Think again, 13 trillion is just the tip of the iceberg. Let me remain in office and I promise you it will get worse… much much worse. Collectively, the communists, the Islamic fascists and the Muslim monarchs are united against you and your phony flat broke fiat capitalism and I’m leading the charge. Get it, charge? Ah never mind.

      Don’t think about impeaching me either. Only a legal president can be impeached, and I am any thing but legal. Truth be told, since I never reapplied for naturalization after returning from Indonesia, not only am I not an American citizen, I’m not even a legal immigrant – I’m an illegal alien. So do I want amnesty for illegals, damn skippy I do.

      Peeved? Well do something about it, I dare you. Not one judge will grant standing too allow any citizen to present evidence against me in court. Oh, and in case you haven’t noticed, not one person in Congress will dare challenge my eligibility and despite their oaths, the military brass is loyal to me, not the Constitution!

      So you got any more bright ideas, hmmm? Haaahahaha, it’s good to be King.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 6:51am

      The dirty little secret is we now owe the Private banking cartel (Federal Reserve)
      the money they created back plus 6% interest to the member banks like
      the Bank of England ( the Rothschilds) once you understand this you will
      realize we were bamboozled by repububs not to increase the taxes on income
      over 1 million and we should have raised the div and cap gain taxes to %20
      those are the taxes the rich pay, not income,
      So now the burnen of paying this Debt back will fall on the working peoples back
      just like it always does.
      I vote to default on the Feds ponzi fiat money scam to gain control
      of USA by destroying our economy. THIS IS HIGH TREASON
      and should be handled as such.
      http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/section7.htm

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 7:54am

      INFLATION – STEALTH TAXATION:

      The tyrants (Wannabe Peers) would have you believe that taxes are only increased when the legislature increases taxes. These tyrants use the confusion over the relationship between wealth and the medium of exchange (money) to perpetuate this myth. Actually, the tax on the economy rises whenever the government s increases spending. Tax laws just determine how the liability is distributed. If the taxes fail to cover expenses, the value of the dollar decreases and anyone who owns money pays the tax in the form of loss of purchasing power. Money, (paper money) has no intrinsic value. The dollar’s value is determined by the quantity of wealth the market is willing to exchange for the dollar. The dollar’s value eventually will be determined by the nation’s wealth divided by the dollars and credit in circulation.

      Inflation is not a recent phenomenon. During the 19th Century the inflation rate in the United States was 12% for the entire Century. In 1800, $0.89 had the purchasing power of $1.00 in 1900, a change of about 12% in 100 years. From 1900 to 2007 the inflation rate was about 25 to 1, a change of 2500% in 107 years. A Google search lists over 20 pages of “inflation calculators” three of the most popular inflation calculators list the inflation rate of between 24.6 and27.71 from 1900 and 2007. In other words, $1.00 in 1900 was worth around $25.00 in 2007.

      What happened? In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s four factors emerged that caused inflation to increase. These are:
      • Creation of the “Fourth Branch of Government” the Bureaucracy
      • Enacting and enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act.
      • Creation of the Federal Reserve
      • Enacting the income tax
      • Wars

      How did these factors cause such erosion in the value of the dollar? Chapter 9 of “21st Century Common Sense” explains in simple terms how these factors produced inflation of the dollar and aided the “Wannabe Peers” in usurping our freedom. The book “Money Mischief” by Milton Friedman provides a complete history of inflation, the causes and the consequences for those who require more proof. http://commonsense21c.com/

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  • tranquilrider
    Posted on December 21, 2010 at 9:59pm

    Why no mention of the 911 responders bill on the Blaze?
    Anyone??????

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    • republitarian
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:07pm

      You just did. Now tell us why we should care.

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    • jzs
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:08pm

      I wonder that too. Blazers don’t know about that Republican obstruction to help those selfless men that responded when the chips were down and now suffer the consequences of that bravery (with little help from our friends the insurance companies).

      The the trillions of dollars debt?. Well, a trillion of that is the tax cuts for the rich so beloved by everyone here.

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    • american1st
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:38pm

      how about this ,,,, not supporting the 911 responders has NOTHING to do with rejecting this bill!!
      they are objecting to another fast-tracked and pushed through in the dark of night bill..
      - objecting to the fact that nobody knows if it is duplicating money already committed to the responders,
      - or that the proposed methods of paying for it by creating fee’s (taxes) is a bad idea compared to using spending cuts
      - or at the very least the bill should go though committee to give the people voting on it a chance to consider those issues..

      .

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    • 101
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:50pm

      .
      Quantitative Easing Explained

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k&feature=player_embedded

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    • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:09pm

      Ummmmm, IDK, but if I lived in New York, I would wonder what my tax dollars were going to if not the very first thing they threaten I will lose if I don’t pay more! Maybe the ‘first responders’ should take it up with their union. If New York has neglected THEIR firefighters and policemen (*PC alert*persons), that is not the rest of the country’s problem. I am sympathetic to those suffering, but they supposedly were already going to be taken care of if anything happened to them, right??
      ***********
      Oh, speaking of DEBT, you’ve made my point for me. I also don‘t think Boehner IS ready to make the ’tough choices’, that tax deal left me EXTREMELY disappointed.
      Ahhhhhh Blaze, it is good to be back ; }

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:19pm

      @JZS–
      Except that keeping the current tax rates isn’t an expense.

      @Tranquil’s question–
      I find it rather curious too…
      What’s up, Blaze?

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:36pm

      i agree with american1st, the obama administration has pushed so much through that no one knows what is in half the bills, it is not that we don’t care for these true american responders, the question should be why did the obama democrats wait until now to to push this bill?? why didn’t they do it earlier this year or before instead of passing bills that will lead us to communism, o yeah, thats right if they can put it off , then the really great obama health care system will take care of them for free,and the government want have to settle with them. another thing, i am all for helping any one who risk their life on that terrible and tragic day, including the families of the ones who lost their life, another question should be asked, why, when more than half of those responders are,or were union members is not the unions paying their medical bills instead of spending their union dues on turning our country into a communist country.you blame the insurance companies,and the republicans but not the unions why???? please don‘t think i don’t want these american heroes to be taken care for life, because i do . but the unions should to also.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:51pm

      I was listening to a program the other day and the host was saying something about that bill. He said that
      A) it isn’t paid for and they were trying to avoid as much deficit spending as possible and
      B) the details were very fuzzy as to how much should be paid out and to whom.
      They need to figure out how to fund it and clean it up before they pass it.

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:08am

      My bet is that if one were to look at JZS’s portfolio all one would find is
      A piggy bank scotch taped back together with $1.37 in pennys inside
      An S&H greenstamp book from the 70s
      and three coupons for half off a double cheese burger at mcdonalds

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:05am

      @JIZS The police and fire fighters have union health insurance & pensions that cover their needs. Why should the tax payer let these unions off the hook? Because that is what this is about!
      http://www.ufanyc.org/security_benefit_fund/index.php

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:06am

      If I can be there to deliver the money to those in need, GREAT. Otherwise, you leave it in the hands of the Gubberment to distribute hard earned tax dollars that they consider theirs. WRONG A lot of trust there …eh?

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    • goku17
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:17am

      Republitarian, you’re exactly right. Who cares about the men and women who sacrificed their lives to rescue their colleagues that were lost at the World Trade Center. You represent all that republicans in the Congress wish they could say: screw the people, help the aristocrats. You are truly something my idiot friend. Truly something.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:22am

      untameable-kate,

      Because the entirety of this bill was not run through the normal channels most Republicans don‘t know what’s in it. That’s reason enough to hold it up.

      It looks as if the GOP doesn’t care about 1st responders, but that is so very far from the truth that its hardly worth defending. They simply don’t want to pass this thing without time to vetting and figuring out exactly where this money is going. They know if they screw this up and let this pass without a complete understanding of the bill they could get badly bitten by the Dems and they don’t want to seem as if they got caught with their pants down… again. They know we Tea-Party folks would be all over them like flies on dog-poop.

      And in the meantime, none of the first responders on 9-11 have gone without treatment for any illnesses associated with the dust or chemicals at ground zero. This money is more for the families these guys will leave behind.

      One last item… The Dems still control the house and senate for a few more days, so once again, what’s keeping them from passing this bill?

      PatriotShops.com

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    • sabichan
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:26am

      Why no 911 first responders bill? One word- Pigford.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:13am

      “The NYC police and firefighters‘ health insurance doesn’t want pay for their health issues, they sent 9/11 police and firefighters to Worker’s Comp. **New York** state worker‘s comp won’t pay for their healthcare, they say their is no direct proof that 9/11 caused their illnesses. Remember this is a **demorat** dominated state! So now New York LIbs want the US tax payer to foot the bill. Prove me wrong.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:41am

      I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but what would people have the government do? Just give them money and hope the problem goes away? It doesn’t work like that, and we’re running out of money to throw. I do appreciate everything those men have done, and my heart really does go out to them, but giving them money for services rendered doesn’t fix the fact that they are dying.

      Believe me, I know how heartless this sounds, but we can’t keep doing this, “some poor single mom needs help with her kids” “some guy who has a family to feed and is just down on his luck needs help” “someone who was willing to sacrifice, and now suffers because of it”. None of these people deserve what they get, and we should do everything we can to help them. The fact of the matter remains the same, we don’t have the resources to continue giving everyone cash, no matter how rightly they need it. These are going to be the tough decisions we face because those pansy, suit wearing monkey’s in congress just keep passing it down the line. So, are we going to keep handing the burden further down the line, or are we going to perform some triage?

      Doing what has to be done, doesn’t make it any easier.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:58am

      @LORD_FROSTWIND
      The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
      Ayn Rand

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 5:13am

      What’s a few trillion between friends? In a couple of years after quatitative easing a trillion won’t buy you a hot cup of coffee…Don’t believe me? Zimbabwe prints trillion dollar bills and they are as worthless as toilet paper. We are headed down the same road…

      The dollar will soon be wothless too, we can soon pay off our debt with the colored paper they are printing. Woo Hoo…Hyperinflation is a good way to pay off debt, well that is if the debtors will take our paper LOL

      If you want to be wealthy in the next couple of years, borrow as much money as you can reasonably afford right NOW, buy food to barter with along with Gold and Silver. When hyperinflation hits, take the Silver Eagles you bought for around 35.00 each and pay off thousands of dollars of your debt with a couple of them. That is how you survive this lunacy.

      Oh yea…lock and load, the ride is gonna get bumpy.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 6:00am

      The Repubs are wanting to keep the 911 bill from becoming a bailout package for the entire state of New York, which is what Chuckie Schumer wants.

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    • AzCowboy
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 6:04am

      I feel for the folks on 911. Sounds like we should help them at least until 2014. ObamaCare after that.
      What a joke…
      jH…

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    • Colonial Revolutionary
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 6:29am

      DashRipRock

      I just blew coffee out of my nose. Warn me before you post something else so I can be better prepared. LOL.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 6:42am

      911 responders have waited 9 yrs I think they can wait another month.

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 7:19am

      The 9/11 health bill? Why should the American taxpayer pay for the destruction of Muslim Barbarians! What they should do is Tax every Mosque and Islamic organization in America to pay for these patriots healthcare! Why should Americans have to pay for the destruction that Muslims caused, It is all their fault and it would have never have happened if these barbarians weren’t allowed in this country!

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    • guyperram
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 7:49am

      And just what in the Constitution allows congress to fulfill this request? Actually, an action for just the 1st responders in NY is banned by the Constitution. This means that they would have to set up another unfunded, open ended, program for every 1st responder across the country. The basic problem with this is….we do not have any money!
      Unless, of course, you think like that ditz on Napitono’s show last night, that thinks you can actually get away with just printing an unlimited amount of unbacked paper currency.
      Oh yea, they are doing that.

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    • jzs
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 9:59am

      Guy – please point out the section and article of the Constitution where this is prohibited.

      To the “jam through” people, this bill was introduced back in July and has been blocked 13 times by Republicans. Remember this: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012217-503544.html

      Republicans had time to give tax breaks to the rich (and remember folks, taxes under Reagan were twice as high as not), but not enough time to help the first responders.

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    • jzs
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 10:32am

      Here’s Shep Smith of FOX news giving his opinion: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/shep-smith-calls-out-republicans-over-911-first-responders-bill/

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    • tranquilrider
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:02pm

      90% of the responses to my question disgust me to the core!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      You should be ashamed of yourselves for not giving a s#*$t about the people that truly showed us what America can and should be. Not playing partisan politics with the real heroes of our lifetime. You clame to be Patriots but are more than willing to throw your fellow countrymen in need under the bus simply to defy the current administration. The Blaze has time to cover National Enquirer type stories daily but does not have the time to discuss this travesty. You should demand more from your little news site.

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    • sonofoursigners
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:13pm

      Come on!!! Just because your AFL-CIO buddies got you all bent out of shape on the subject, doesn’t mean you have to spam around on all the people that oppose the measure.

      american1st reponse hits it right on.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:58pm

      You think I like being a cold hearted SOB tranquil? You think I enjoy the fact that knowing how to save a country will inevitably lead to people’s deaths, probably in the thousands if we’re lucky? I’d love to be just like so many people right now “oh help the poor, help this, help that…” and be all lovey dovey and wanting to give everyone the sun moon and stars. But that attitude has SCREWED us, I‘m a cold hearted SOB because there aren’t enough cold hearted SOB’s left in the world to make sure it keeps functioning. Sure, people say “well it is just one more group of people, we Have to help them out.” and then it becomes another, and another, and pretty soon everybody is in the same situation and then all hell breaks loose. But please go on, tell me how mean I am, how cruel it is to cut these people off, I steeled myself against the crying a long time ago.

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    • tranquilrider
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:03pm

      @Lord_Frostwind
      Quite clear that you didn’t lose any loved ones on 911.
      If your attitude is the majority in America, we’re in trouble.
      You’ve lost your morality.

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    • jzs
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:05pm

      Sorry Blazers, it looks like a bill supporting the 9-11 responders will pass.

      And for the good LORD FROSTY or whatever:

      First Collector: At this festive time of year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute.
      Ebenezer: Are there no prisons?
      First Collector: Plenty of prisons.
      Ebenezer: And the union workhouses – are they still in operation?
      First Collector: They are. I wish I could say they were not.
      Ebenezer: Oh, from what you said at first I was afraid that something had happened to stop them in their useful course. I’m very glad to hear it.
      First Collector: I don’t think you quite understand us, sir. A few of us are endeavoring to buy the poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth.
      Ebenezer: Why?
      First Collector: Because it is at Christmastime that want is most keenly felt, and abundance rejoices. Now what can I put you down for?
      Ebenezer: Huh! Nothing!
      Second Collector: You wish to be anonymous?
      Ebenezer: [firmly, but calmly] I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish sir, that is my answer. I help to support the establishments I have named; those who are badly off must go there.
      First Collector: Many can’t go there.
      Second Collector: And some would rather die.

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    • Republic Under God
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 3:26pm

      I think ultimately, the concern is that the 911 Respondent bill doesn’t become another slush fund. When the topic tugs at most people’s heart strings, is when it is easiest to dupe people.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 9:25pm

      For all your vaunted compassion, and high and mighty morality, what does this accomplish? Sure, you feel better, could we not have done the same thing as a community? Taken them in, helped them with their medical bills. Better yet, where there no other project in the government that they could have taken money away from to pay for this? No, apparently not. Anyone who does anything deserves government help right? Well, take comfort, know that because of all your pandering, and demanding someone else to help, these men get a big fat check of monopoly money in their stocking this year.

      You know what the scariest thing is

      Give it about five years with the same government in power we have now, and what I’ve said today will be the exact same thing they are saying. Isn’t it just tragic how cruelty and desperation often run hand in hand?

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