Message from @franti
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@franti The author of the original saw fit to lump in VA and DHS with DOD, so I thought it was only fair to do the same
Yannow, I went to NYC once
and saw the national debt clock
That quote I have that image of is from annexation.ca
your country was going up by like 100,000 per secon
(my screen wasn't scrolling so I missed all the messages)
14,000,000,000,000 and rising constantly
the fuck is wrong with yuo guys
Nowadays we have this http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Portable debt clock!
With details
that's debt
the pink line is that year's deficit
which is added to the total debt
Basically they spent 1.645 trillion more dollars than they raked in with tax receipts
@King Canuck Here's the Canadian equivalent http://www.debtclock.ca/
@RMS_Gigantic Do you have one for the EU?
The whole EU?
No
Specific states in it
@King Canuck Also remember that a big part of why our debt is so large is social security and medicare/medcaid
Dat Estonia
The nice thing about the US is how little of our debt is owed to anyone else
Most of our debt is owed to ourselves
And as the dominant economy in the world, we're our own main debt collector
What's anyone else gonna do, fight us?
```Chinese lenders snap up so much of the U.S. debt for one basic economic reason: protecting its “dollar-pegged” yuan.
Ever since the establishment of the Bretton Woods System in 1944, the value of China’s currency, the yuan, has been connected or “pegged” to the value of the U.S. dollar. This helps China hold down the cost of its exported goods, which tends to make China, like any nation, a stronger performer in international trade.
With the U.S. dollar considered one of the safest and most stable currencies in the world, dollar-pegging helps the Chinese government maintain the stability and value of the yuan. In May 2018, one Chinese yuan was worth about $0.16 U.S. dollar. ```
Update on Slovak pooling
8% goes to Chjina
The Federal Reserve has 11.3%
the social security trust fund has 19%
That last item or two is intra-governmental debt
That poll *seems* quite different from the last one I saw