America Needs a Constitutional Government, Not an “Efficient” One
At the time of this writing, the national debt of the United States had hit an incomprehensible $36,300,597,047,646. By the time you read these words, it’ll be higher. Much higher. The government has been adding billions of dollars of debt every day.
The debt is rising at a stupidly fast and dangerous pace. On December 4, 2024, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that the country is on an “unsustainable” fiscal path and called for a course correction, just days after the debt topped $36 trillion for the first time.
The Treasury Department includes on its website a graph that illustrates how much the debt has risen over the past 100 years (see graphic below). In 1924, the national debt hit $394 billion. Spending rose significantly around the World War II era, and began plateauing around 1950. In 1982, spending again began rising significantly, pausing for just a moment around the 2011 mark, before it rose and rose until the concerning uphill trend turned into the unscalable cliff we are facing today.
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