United States the "wealthiest nation on earth"

[Tyler66]

Yeah I know, but there has to be a limit to this right? What if we ever hit the quadrillions? The people we're in debt with can't just sit idly by forever

Nope. The Government has a card that'll never run out.

We just need to wait for one president to know what the forget he is doing and break this endless string of incredibly stupid presidents.

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[Jairo]

I'm not saying that it will be civil war, I don't really even want to suggest a bloody war, more or less a mass, country wide protest by most of the people of the country.

yes, of course

because everyone stopping their jobs that generate money for the government will surely reverse the debt

[Swat 3]

Nope. The Government has a card that'll never run out.

We just need to wait for one president to know what the forget he is doing and break this endless string of incredibly stupid presidents.

But..

Really only Democratic and Republican people actually get voted into office. All the people who know what they are doing are independent and aren't given any money.

[Treynolds416]

Lock this, take an economics class, then create a new post utilizing the knowledge you've learned.

Can't shake the feeling that you're lub

Didn't he use that avatar before?

[Mysteroo]

We just need to wait for one president to know what the forget he is doing and break this endless string of incredibly stupid presidents.

I'm beginning to question if that's ever going to happen

You give someone a suit and a cameraman to follow him around, and anybody will believe anything he says. This was something some people did on a TV show, they even said "we got news this morning that Texas succeeded from the Union" and the guy believed him 100%. My English class knows more about the government shutdown than the average adult does. It's no wonder we keep voting in people that don't know what they're doing

[Wispfire]

I'm beginning to question if that's ever going to happen

You give someone a suit and a cameraman to follow him around, and anybody will believe anything he says. This was something some people did on a TV show, they even said "we got news this morning that Texas succeeded from the Union" and the guy believed him 100%. My English class knows more about the government shutdown than the average adult does. It's no wonder we keep voting in people that don't know what they're doing

The problem is that the 30% of people that are morons vote because they believe only one candidate. The 40% either don't care/like only the republicans/democrats, and the rest just don't vote because they know the country is forgeted either way.

[Tyler66]

I'm beginning to question if that's ever going to happen

It will. It has to.
Otherwise the United States won't be able to get any more deeper in the stuff they're already in.

There has to be at least one person out there that can hold the responsibility of being the president and to focus on America's real issues instead of looking at the issues of other countries.
Like, President Obama was only voted because he had the potential to be America's first black president. Now a good portion of people who voted for him are kicking themselves because they know they gave power to a man that would not help the nation at all. Hell, we've already been considering impeachment because of how useless he is.

[Planr]

The ones responsible for this are those of us who have voted into office the people who catalyze this. I will not name names but I think most know who i'm talking about.

[Jairo]

considering obama spent his entire first election trying to fix what bush forgeted up, he's doing very well for himself

you know, assassinating bin laden

keeping good ties with russia/china

not being a bumbling idiot

something bush couldn't do

[DiceyGrammar]

very happy i'm not a yank

[Planr]

From my point of view, Osama Bin Laden's death is little compared to a 17 trillion dollar debt limit
If I could choose between having dead the most wanted terrorist on the planet or completely eliminating the debt entirely, i would choose the debt to destroy.

[Nal]

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

[Epicduke]

what a country

[Lucius]

or alternatively explain it to us right now

Lol what are you talking about?

this

I'm not going to explain it to you because I barely understand it myself. Topics such as Economics, where money comes from and what it actually is, wealth and the whole works can get confusing and that's just not something that I spend my time on. Though of what little I know, you can't think of a nation's "wealth" as a bank account in the negative with debt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth
http://www.frbsf.org/education/publications/doctor-econ/2000/october/national-wealth
http://blog.firstaffirmative.com/2010/04/09/does-gdp-measure-national-wealth/

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+is+national+wealth+measured

considering obama spent his entire first election trying to fix what bush forgeted up, he's doing very well for himself

you know, assassinating bin laden

keeping good ties with russia/china

not being a bumbling idiot

something bush couldn't do

HA!

You're right. The NDAA, stuff like this

http://www.france24.com/en/20131016-us-asks-top-court-not-take-case-nsa-cyber-snooping

The increased drone program, lying about civilian spying, Syria, etc, etc. Yeah Bush was stuff but you really think that Obama is all that great? Every president in the 2000s has been an utter forget up. I suppose that Obama wasn't as bad as Bush but it's embarrassing.



inb4 racism obama is god u white supremacist monday h8tr

[[Na Pulse]]

God Dammnit, I hate this nation So much. I practically hate ALL nations right now, All of them are stuff, All of them are terrible, Humanity should just do a Global revolution, Or Just go back to the dark ages.  I know there is good, But it is Being chocked By all the Cynical, Money grubbing bastards on earth, And the worst part is, If you, Me, WE had all this money, the  same money the rich Do? we would be exactly LIKE the Rich.