Why is our nation in debt?

Question

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071104205442AAn0Gre&r=w

Answer 1

Which nation?

Answer 2

Wrong. In the first place, illegal immigrants provide a net gain to the economy. The fact that bigots claim otherwise doesn't make it so.

In 2000 we had a surplus. And projections showed that with continued economic growth the debt would have been PAID OFF by around 2015 (source: Alan Greenspan).

Then Bush and the neocons cut taxes to the wealthy and began to spend hundreds of billions on pork barrel projects and even more on their wars.

The right-wing keeps trying to claim otherwise. But the facts--and the numbers--don't lie.

Answer 3

No matter your party....because "our" government can't learn to live within it's means as we as individuals have to. There are too many self destructive policies such as - if the department doesn't find a way to spend it, then they won't need it next year. Maybe we should give savings bonuses to department heads. And also maybe we should all support the Fair Tax which would bring in more income.

Answer 4

This movie explains it all very succinctly (including how immigration plays into this). Watch it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173&q=Freedom+Fascism+Authorized&total=5&start=0&num=100&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Answer 5

How come we are in debt if we are the ones that invented and print the dollar bills?>, I don't get it

Answer 6

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/EXTDECQEDS/0,,menuPK:1805431~pagePK:64168427~piPK:64168435~theSitePK:1805415,00.html

Still World's #1 In Debt.

http://www.rense.com/general78/eve.htm

The Eve Of Destruction
By Judith Moriarty
© Copyright 2007
9-19-7

"The eastern world it tis explodin',
violence flarin', bullets loadin'
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction"

If I were given unlimited power, money, and the unknowing assistance
of multitudes of pawns, players, shills, toadies, lap dogs, etc; to
take down a nation, how would I do it?

Common sense says, first I would want to control that nation's
monetary system with the unlimited ability to tax the population
(incurring massive debt) into servitude. I might name my monetary
system with an official-sounding title that would fool the multitudes
into thinking I was an official governmental agency - and not a
private banking cartel.

I would institute various programs of entitlement to entrap and make
the citizenry dependent on various handouts - thus killing their
incentive to work, but most of all to control dissent. One doesn't
bite the hand that feeds them.

I would give robber barons, and various corporate entities, through
lobbyists and campaign contributions to key legislators the power to
write their own meal tickets, excusing them from various taxes,
regulation, liabilities and accountability. I would set up off -shore
accounts and various trusts to protect the wealth of the favored
elite. Only the working cogs will pay strangulating taxes.

I would kill unions. Unions are not cost-effective for companies
whose sole purpose for existence is 'profits'. Unions are a hindrance
with their silliness of demanding livable wages, safe working
conditions, medical benefits, pensions, vacations, etc. I would
initiate a PR campaign to discredit and label those who had any
thoughts of organizing. I would threaten to close down local
industries and ship them overseas if workers balked at lower wages,
or resented being mere cogs in the machine. In the event of a strike,
I would call in scab workers and security guards to handle unruly
vocal workers. Maybe I'd kill the leaders - just as a lesson.

Next, for quicker servitude, I would shut down the mills, the various
plants, machine shops, manufacturing, auto companies (livable wage
jobs), and send them to foreign lands, where labor costs (no
benefits - no safety standards) are mere pennies. I would grant tax
incentives, subsidies and create consulting firms to assist companies
in making a smooth transition to less restrictive lands.

I would direct Congress to vote legislation (various visas) to import
tens and more tens of thousands of foreign workers who would be paid
one-half to one third of American wages (no benefits, no job
security) to work at resorts, hotels, restaurants, in the medical
field, engineering, teaching and in Information Technology. I would
propagandize the gullible public, telling them that Americans 'won't
do' those jobs - or that there are not enough trained Americans to
fill the positions. Congress will be instructed to reinforce this lie
in various scripted messages (media - campaign trail - speeches in
Congress).

Slowly and insidiously, I would remove most of the major decision-
making to the Executive Branch under the guise of national security.
Presidential Directives, and Executive Orders will replace the
messiness of having decisions held-up, or argued in Congress. Most
importantly, the public will remain mostly oblivious.

I would open the borders to allow millions of the dispossessed (due
to trade agreements) south of the border/others; to work on corporate
farms, as maids, laborers , construction workers, roofers, etc. I
would encourage illegal immigration; so as to keep these unsuspecting
people, in a constant state of apprehension - should they insist on a
livable wage, or complain, when unscrupulous contractors leave them
unpaid, or injured without compensation. I would organize massive
marches (making them appear as grassroots uprisings) pitting victims
(American workers) against victims (immigrants) - so as to keep the
focus off of the various trade agreements (constructing a global
plantation). The more venom, rancor, hatred and chaos, the better.
The workers of the world, must never see these issues as pertaining
to class......but rather intolerance, racism, and bigotry. Victims
blaming victims, never the elite behind the curtain.

I would limit any real choices in voting, keeping the field limited
to a two-party (monied) system - where only the wealthy (poor
candidates ignored) and chosen need apply. Again, I would encourage
animosity between the reds and the blues, never revealing that they
are playing (these political parties) good cop - bad cop (depending
on who is in power). Both parties will be given their scripted
talking points, which per usual, will promise the world...and deliver
nothing. They must not address the real issues facing Americans and
instead distract by sniping and snipping amongst themselves. I would
turn over the responsibility (to assure the outcome) of voting to
corporate entities with their easily-compromised voting machines with
no paper trails (such as even local ATM machines provide).

I would keep up the pretense of a 'representative democracy' in Foggy
Bottom with a lot of bickering, the blame game, and senseless tedious
hearings (always after the fact) of scandals, the lack of response to
disasters, sex , etc. This gives the 'appearance' of being busy and
on top of things.

I would set up a dysfunctional Department of Education, that would
dictate to the states (thus parents) various insane mandates,
regulations, and policies, for the sole purpose of dumbing down
(through tests, not teaching - whole language etc) the future
generation. A dumb population is an easily-controlled population.
These various edicts, will have the dual purpose of putting more and
more costs on work-a-day property owners who are unable to absorb the
demands for higher and higher taxes (to meet these demands). Thus,
everyone will be made to work two or three jobs to keep up with the
newest tax bills, and so on. All of this will result (as planned) in
turning out functionally illiterate students, fit for the local
Wigget factory, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, garbage man, prison guard or
cannon fodder for war. None of these vocations demand calculus, or
being educated in literature, or world affairs.

The teachers of old will be replaced with 'change agents' who will
focus on group think, hive mentality behavior modification, and
social engineering - not teaching. Pre-school will become mandatory.
The younger the child, the easier it is to mold them into non-
thinking dolts conforming to authority. Parents (unread - easily
intimidated) will be convinced that little Johnnie or Jane
is 'learning disabled, or hyper active', and thus needs to be drugged
into compliance. Mental illness centers will become a major part of
education - with soon nearly everyone being found at risk.

"There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction they are going!
There's no knowing where they're rowing,
Or which way the river's flowing!
Not a speck of light is showing,
So the danger must be growing,
For the rowers keep on rowing,
And they're certainly not showing any signs that
they are slowing........."


--Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Answer 7

Too much spending....