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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Bindare_Dundat on February 15, 2009, 01:49:39 PM
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=88851
As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in fact its $65.5 trillion in total obligations exceeds the gross domestic product of the world.
The total U.S. obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits to be paid in the future, effectively have placed the U.S. government in bankruptcy, even before new continuing social welfare obligation embedded in the massive spending plan are taken into account.
The real 2008 federal budget deficit was $5.1 trillion, not the $455 billion previously reported by the Congressional Budget Office, according to the "2008 Financial Report of the United States Government" as released by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
The difference between the $455 billion "official" budget deficit numbers and the $5.1 trillion budget deficit cited by "2008 Financial Report of the United States Government" is that the official budget deficit is calculated on a cash basis, where all tax receipts, including Social Security tax receipts, are used to pay government liabilities as they occur.
But the numbers in the 2008 report are calculated on a GAAP basis ("Generally Accepted Accounting Practices") that include year-for-year changes in the net present value of unfunded liabilities in social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Under cash accounting, the government makes no provision for future Social Security and Medicare benefits in the year in which those benefits accrue.
"As bad as 2008 was, the $455 billion budget deficit on a cash basis and the $5.1 trillion federal budget deficit on a GAAP accounting basis does not reflect any significant money [from] the financial bailout or Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which was approved after the close of the fiscal year," economist John Williams, who publishes the Internet website Shadow Government Statistics, told WND.
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"The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fiscal year 2009 budget deficit as being $1.2 trillion on a cash basis and that was before taking into consideration the full costs of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, before the cost of the Obama nearly $800 billion economic stimulus plan, or the cost of the second $350 billion in TARP funds, as well as all current bailouts being contemplated by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve," he said.
"The federal government's deficit is hemorrhaging at a pace which threatens the viability of the financial system," Williams added. "The popularly reported 2009 [deficit] will clearly exceed $2 trillion on a cash basis and that full amount has to be funded by Treasury borrowing.
"It's not likely this will happen without the Federal Reserve acting as lender of last resort for the Treasury by buying Treasury debt and monetizing the debt," he said.
"Monetizing the debt" is a term used to signify that the Federal Reserve will be required simply to print cash to meet the Treasury debt obligations, acting in this capacity only because the Treasury cannot sell the huge of amount debt elsewhere.
The Treasury has been largely dependent upon foreign buyers, principally China and Japan and other major holders of U.S. dollar foreign exchange reserves, including OPEC buyers purchasing U.S. debt through London.
"The appetite of foreign buyers to purchase continued trillions of U.S. debt has become more questionable as the world has witnessed the rapid deterioration of the U.S. fiscal condition in the current financial crisis," Williams noted.
"Truthfully," Williams pointed out, "there is no Social Security 'lock-box.' There are no funds held in reserve today for Social Security and Medicare obligations that are earned each year. It's only a matter of time until the public realizes that the government is truly bankrupt and no taxes are being held in reserve to pay in the future the Social Security and Medicare benefits taxpayers are earning today."
Calculations from the "2008 Financial Report of the United States Government" also show that the GAAP negative net worth of the federal government has increased to $59.3 trillion while the total federal obligations under GAAP accounting now total $65.5 trillion.
The $65.5 trillion total federal obligations under GAAP accounting not only now exceed four times the U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, the $65.5 trillion deficit exceeds total world GDP.
"In the seven years of GAAP reporting, we have seen an annual average deficit in excess of $4 trillion, which could not be possibly covered by any form of taxation," Williams argued.
"Shy of the government severely slashing social welfare programs, federal deficits of this magnitude are beyond any hope of containment, government or otherwise," he said.
"Put simply, there is no way the government can possibly pay for the level of social welfare benefits the federal government has promised unless the government simply prints cash and debases the currency, which the government will increasingly be doing this year," Williams said, explaining in more detail why he feels the government is now in the process of monetizing the federal debt.
"Social Security and Medicare must be shown as liabilities on the federal balance sheet in the year they accrue according to GAAP accounting," Williams argues. "To do otherwise is irresponsible, nothing more than an attempt to hide the painful truth from the American public. The public has a right to know just how bad off the federal government budget deficit situation really is, especially since the situation is rapidly spinning out of control.
"The federal government is bankrupt," Williams told WND. "In a post-Enron world, if the federal government were a corporation such as General Motors, the president and senior Treasury officers would be in federal penitentiary."
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"In a post-Enron world, if the federal government were a corporation such as General Motors, the president and senior Treasury officers would be in federal penitentiary."
BOOM! 8)
Or if in China ...
Dead.
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BOOM! 8)
Or if in China ...
Dead.
The Chinese don't fuck around.
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The Chinese don't fuck around.
The Chinese don't kill their own...nor commit the massive crimes that caucasians do.
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The Chinese don't kill their own...nor commit the massive crimes that caucasians do.
Go tell that to the dead dairy boss that is 6 feet under over the Chinese milk scandal.
Tiananmen Square, Falun Gong, Tibet, stealing organs from individuals, etc...
the list goes on.
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The Chinese don't kill their own...nor commit the massive crimes that caucasians do.
Go read about the Chinese wars you dope going back at least 3,000 years. They are ruthless killers like anyone else.
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Go read about the Chinese wars you dope going back at least 3,000 years. They are ruthless killers like anyone else.
Lets look at the MURDER HISTORY of the caucasians known as the Greeks, Romans, British, French, Spaniards, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and Italians...then focus on the Catholics (who alone murdered 600+ MILLION), the Templars and your so called white Christians who murdered hundreds of Million in the americas with the coming of Columbus(north america), Cortez(central america) and Pizzarro(south america). Then move on to the so called wars of independence, Civil wars of america, Spanish American war, World War I, World War II, the multitude of attacks upon innocent nations in the past 60 years including the Vietnamese, Koreans, Japanese, Nicaraguans, Panamanians, Guatemalans, Cubans, covert wars with Mexico, Faulklans, Hawaiians, Samoans, Polynesians, Indonesians, Malaysians, Haitians, many African nations, Middle eastern nations in so called Persian Gulf Wars, Desert Storm, Desert Fox, orchestrated violent american sponsored regime changes, the list goes on forever and the murdered in all of these caucasian led wars has been many BILLIONS OF LIVES. So before you go on pointing a finger at the Chinese look at your own murderous trail of carnage your own have left upon the world. While this time line represents a little over two thousand years, the bulk of caucasian murders occurred within the last couple hundred years. THE CHINESE AND ANY OTHER PEOPLE DON'T HOLD A CANDLE TO THE MURDEROUS RAMPAGE WHITES HAVE BEEN ON...
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Oh please, go read a damn history book and look up the carnage of some of those Chinese wars. The japs too were ruthless killers.
Also, ask for a refund from wherever you went to school because you are woefully uninformed.
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Oh please, go read a damn history book and look up the carnage of some of those Chinese wars. The japs too were ruthless killers.
Also, ask for a refund from wherever you went to school because you are woefully uninformed.
I love how the truth shuts up the biggest mouth....
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I love how the truth shuts up the biggest mouth....
I'm never going to spend another minute reading your crazy posts again. You suffer from a bi polar disorder or schizophrenia or some shit. Seek help.
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I'm never going to spend another minute reading your crazy posts again (YES YOU WILL YOU LIAR!!!). You suffer from a bi polar disorder or schizophrenia or some shit. Seek help.
Thank you BENDOVER_TAKETHAT...I appreciate your comments and will take them to heart...
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SAMSON123