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

Like France UK Germany

This, allegedly https://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficits-comparison-of-the-eu-member-states.html

@Reaps

@King Canuck Also remember that a big part of why our debt is so large is social security and medicare/medcaid

https://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficit-of-estonia.html

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?

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-much-debt-does-china-own-3321769

```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. ```

http://www.feelguide.com/2011/07/30/check-out-the-full-breakdown-of-the-top-18-who-own-americas-debt/

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

debt that the US owes itself

But I could be forgetting the names of the parties again

https://www.feelguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WashingtonPostDebt.jpg

The extremist have overtaken the nationalists @Reaps

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/319545391332720640/459713776472555530/unknown.png

you're lucky I bothered to open that instead of going "that image is fucked" 🤣

@RMS_Gigantic Didn’t you say the one in the oval office was refurbished in the 50’s?

I'd love to owe debt to myself <:think_woke:378717098681171988>

Aye, but I found an even more interesting case

Here's how the House chamber looked from at least the 1890's, if not earlier, through WWII: http://historycms.house.gov/assets/15032390670.jpeg

oh

well then congress

The room was decorated in a Victorian style

notice the different style of fasces