Young Girl Explains the Debt to Dad - RightChange

[stealthgerm]

so raise taxes let all rich an poor share the debt.equally

[FlawlessCock]

God bless Michael Savage! 

[pauljosephp1]

so these are future promises of medicare and social securities not currently owed... Reagan is the one who really deserves to be bashed over this ridiculous credit mentality...

[TheYoungTurdz]

Obamanomics: Trickle up Poverty. It is a success!

[Dickeythorsen]

we started two major wars?

[engageamericanow]

Like it or not, the commitments we already made by both parties go well beyond our ability to pay. If you are conservative, you are alarmed that or your wealth and your children's income will be required to cover these promises. If you are liberal you should be alarmed that there will be no more money availalbe for important programs like education, energy and infrastructure. This is an issue for all Americans.

[cowgirlmoon]

Remember..... Obama inherited everything from Bush.... including a AAA Credit Rating..... but never fear, true to his word, O is fundamentally, changing that, too.

[CaptainProspect]

Yup if we don't pay higher taxes now our kids will have to when they grow up. I don't think that's right.

[copie692012]

Watch ZEITGEIST MOVING FORWARD on Youtube or Web

[Soulburner6]

@copie692012 said movie offers an interesting view on how we could build a sustainable world if we were given a chance to start over. However, it is not the world we live in. It would require a tight society in lock step understanding of what we need to do, where we need to go and how to do it. We just aren't there.

[swlit2001]

LOL. Daddy, can you regurgitate some poll-tested GOP talking points paid for by corporations and billionaires about things don't understand in the slightest but heard from a guy with no expertise on Fox News? Sure, honey, and one day you'll be voting against your own economic interests just like I am.

[luckyrenzo]

President Regan was in Office EIGHT (8 ) Years Obama is only in office NINETEEN (19 ) Month and his dolllar amount is way past Regans already. I could sit here and pick apart any past president but the matter is now the past is the past the furture is what we are all concerned about so move on .

[Tomta20012]

that pretty much sums up the problem with this our countries!

FAT FUCKING STUPID BABY BOOMERS

[randalphillips]

LOVE this ad. Too bad she didn't mention that it is HER generation that will have to deal with it if the Foggy Bottom folks don't stop the idiot finger pointing and game playing (see various blame game players on THIS list) and actually come up with viable, responsible, working solutions.

[TheFunnyAssCracker]

Bush started with 8 trillion and ended with 11 trillion, so no, i'm not tied of bashing Bush. That's the 4 trillion we are looking for now. Any questions?

[NickRauseo]

Pwned.

[tzushih]

I agree with this video. Our debt is way out of hand, thanks to the Bush tax breaks and the ballooning cost of his Afghanistan and Iraq ventures. We need to get out of those wars and let the tax breaks expire this time.

[59chadwick]

@tzushih Don't you people ever get tired of Bush bashing and face the reality that OBAMA couldn't find his way out of a paper bag!

[59chadwick]

Respond to this video... Interesting video

[59chadwick]

@tzushih Don't you get tired of Bush bashing? YOUR leader Odummer could find his way out of a paper bag!

[AgrivatedKillah]

@59chadwick You call obama odummer yet you call bush by his name?

What's the affect does making fun of someones name have to do with anything?

That's childish, grow the fuck up.

[pauljosephp1]

@59chadwick not nearly as tired as I am of ignorance...

[sullyrules1]

@tzushih wrong!!!! Bush is not only at fault for the debt! The tax cuts sky rocketed the economy and the 2 wars werent really that costly as compared to our other expenses. Obama has increased the national debt by 34% with unemployment at it highest. Yeah, bush is at some fault but i do believe the tax cuts were right. We were much better off under BUSH then obama as obama has spent the most than ANY U.S. president. Bush was a good president and didnt have time to fix the conomy and debt

[pruma]

raise taxes already

[rudyspeaks]

It's 60% of the GDP... In 1945 it was 120% and the next 30 years were the most prosperous in US history. This is right wing shit from the same morons that brought you Reaganomics, ie, the ONLY 31 year period in US history when media income failed to rise at all... in fact declined. Ignorance is only painful to the intelligent, not Tea-Baggers.

[CommonSenseJoe]

@rudyspeaks I would NOT count on that happening again. The world was a totally different place in 1945. Actually Reaganomics worked just fine. It was your Democrats in government that were the problem. You cannot continue to spend money you do not have to spend. The Tea party understands that.

[rudyspeaks]

@CommonSenseJoe" Reaganomics worked just fine" Yeah, for the parasites in the upper classes. Their incomes quadrupled while we entered the 1st 3-decade-long median wage decline in history. By what definition is that "fine"? St. Ron also claimed it would turn the deficit into a surplus and eliminate the debt. Actually the debt tripled. Then doubled again under Bush 1. WJC DID turn a surplus, but "W" ruined that w/wars based on lies, BigPhrm giveaways, and taxcuts for Billionaires. Teabag swill!

[tooltalk]

@rudyspeaks : eh? another bulletin board from the DNC's department of propaganda / misinformation:

Honey, in 1945, the US was in the WW2 - when millions were shipped to Asia and Europe to die. Economic growth didn't come until 1948 as the gov't spending was cut, war debts repaid, and budgets balanced especially during Eisenhower era.

It lasted until the liberal revolution of the 60's when the libtardo's warfare and welfare state quickly plunged the nation in to inflation / debt.

[tooltalk]

@rudyspeaks : That in turn leading to macroeconomic instability unseen since 1950's under Eisenhower. Reagan after his early recession quickly tamed the inflation and brought back the macroeconomic stabilty (Great Moderation) to the chaos that the leftist gov't created and couldn't control. It was during Carter era that the income / wealth gap start rising dramatically (falsely attributed to Reagan by the DNC's propagandists).

[hamham934]

And then I'm like, WTF?!?!

[666brainiac]

Bush Jr kicked the can down the road. He is the ultimate credit card President who maxed out the cards and handed the bill to the future generations. And the Tea Party never said a word.

If the tea party had said anything then they might have a little bit of credibility.As of now they have none, nada, zero credibility.

What the little girl in the video is really saying is our president is wrong pigmentated.

[treysparker]

@666brainiac

Its amazing how wrong you are.

The Tea party first gathered in December 2007 against George Bush and in favor of Ron Paul. Thats right, while Bush was president the tea partiers were in protest against him (and most of our government in general).

The gathering was to get the message of Ron Paul out (lower taxes, end the wars etc)

I would know, because I was there.

[Fringe111]

Social Security is solvent for the next 38 years. Don't listen to these lies

[gotitans999]

And how is congress able to spend more after tax revenue? Oh, that's right, the federal reserve is there to print more. Ron Paul is the only hope. End the FED!

[halalbackgirl]

Trying to relate the national to a households debt is utterly simplistic and asinine. A household does not have a whole team of economic advisers. A household cannot print it's own money. A household has only 2-6 roughly financial decision makers, on average. ( who knows what the average is, it's less than the Federal Government.)

[schell939]

@trashcanman333...the govt has tried a war on poverty and has made the problem worse. Ron Paul would better regulate the economy by not saving the banks from bankruptcy. I agree with Jess, Ron Paul 2012!

[OpenInsanity]

ஜ۩۩ஜ▬▬Van Jones 2012▬▬▬­­­­­­▬ஜ۩۩ஜ

[FactChecking101]

@OpenInsanity Ding ding ding! You won! Here's your "stupidest post on the internet of the day" award. Nice job!

[OpenInsanity]

@FactChecking101 You ignorant sheep. Only Van Jones can save our country from tyranny. Inform your self and join the ReVANlution.

[FactChecking101]

@OpenInsanity Van Jones IS tyranny!

[tooltalk]

@OpenInsanity : so lame.. ripping off Ron Paul's revolution campaign.

[Spunkenfly]

A lack of competitiveness in the health care sector is one of the leading causes of the debt crises. Much of the health care industry's administrative staff is grossly overpaid and inefficient.

[DarthTroller]

@Spunkenfly I'm betting that you have never worked in the healthcare industry. You seem to have no idea what you are talking about.

[Trashcanman333]

So what the girl is saying is, time to raise taxes.

[FactChecking101]

@Trashcanman333 or cut spending.

I'm voting cut spending in 2012.

[21stCenturyEconomy]

ஜ۩۩ஜ▬▬Ron Paul 2012▬▬▬­­­­­­▬ஜ۩۩ஜ

[1217jesss]

THAT IS WHY WE HAVE RON PAUL FOR 2012; YEAHH!!!

[Trashcanman333]

@1217jesss If Ron Paul got everything he wanted, the country would be destroyed. Only about 1/4 of the states would live above poverty, every southern school would open every class with a prayer, companies could do w/e they wanted without any regulations. They'd just dump all the waste in the rivers again, get rid of all employee benefits, wages would drop dramaticly. I love his foreign policy, but it's way too late to try and do half the shit he wants to do.

[1217jesss]

@Trashcanman333 o.k. Let me get this straight. Continue with the dictator wellfare, continue crony corporate welfare and bail wall street, continue a failed war on drugs and build more prisons, continue no win wars around the world and rebuild foreign countries after bombing them, continue massive spending on worthless government agencies, continue wth our monetary policy that destroys our dollar, keep borrowing from china to pay for our entitlements, end our liberties & frdom. OK IF U SAY SO!

[deadbutmoving]

@Trashcanman333

What makes you think Ron Paul would let companies dump pollution into our enviroment? You've been brainwashed by the corporate media. Right now companies are dumping tons of pollutions into the enviroment and people can't sue them because they lobby the Government to protect them. The Corporatism that we have today is worse than Ron Paul's vision because if Ron Paul had his way I would actually be able to win a lawsuit against a company if they polluted my property.

[KojachBaumherr]

@deadbutmoving if ron paul is who you think he is he would be assassinated long before winning the general election

[tooltalk]

@Trashcanman333 : eh? more crazy batshit from the DNC's dept of propaganda / misinformation:

Well, let's see: average Americans owe hundreds of thousands in credit card, auto, mortgage debts; corporations already write most of their regulation, addition to billions of subsidies and free-money from the gov't; much of average Joe's workers' wealth is wiped by the rising costs in medicine, education and food costs from the gov't inflation.

I'm not too crazy about Ron Paul's foreign policy, but

[tooltalk]

@Trashcanman333 : if we try half the shit he wants to do, we would be so much better off than what we now have.

[GrowMasterGeneral]

Why do Republicans act as if raising the debt ceiling is purely a Democratic move? Bush raised the ceiling 8 times. And why do they think the $14 trillion deficit was Obama's fault. He' only contributed $1.4 trillion. Wake up you fucking moronic Republicans/Tea partiers, the debt was caused by Bush's two wars and his tax cuts. Using the example from the video, if the debt is like your credit card, then tax cuts are like asking your boss to pay you LESS in order to pay off your bills.

[tooltalk]

@GrowMasterGeneral : eh? In 2006, Obama said:

".. raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. …"

And the fact that most democrats opposed Bush's debt limit increase a few years ago, when the increment was so much smaller than Obama's increase. Any question?

[GrowMasterGeneral]

@tooltalk Yeah, that's exactly my point. Thanks for agreeing with me. Was that your intention?

[tooltalk]

@GrowMasterGeneral : eh? Democrat's hypocrisy is your point? I agree!

[GrowMasterGeneral]

@tooltalk Don't be another retarded right-winger, don't forget to include Republican hypocrisy too. Republicans raised the debt limit 7 times under Bush, and 18 times under your party's hero, Reagan. Raising the debt limit is something both parties do.

[luckyrenzo]

@GrowMasterGeneral do your research how much was the total dollar amount for President Regan 18 times. Then compare that to Obama .I think you will be Very Very surprised.

[hellopendejos]

Jimmy Carter's administration delivered the lowest federal debt in US history. So maybe the tea party should make President Carter their champion for change?

[willyswear]

@hellopendejos How does Jimmy Carter beat Andrew Jackson who totally paid of the National debt? Why don't you liberals ever know what the hell your talking about?

[GrowMasterGeneral]

@willyswear You wanna make Andrew Jackson your role model? The guy whose mission it was to eliminate the entire race of native americans? The guy who is responsible for the trail of tears. The guy responsible for the Indian Removal Act. They use to call him "King Jackson" because of his abuse of power. But hey, he paid off the debt so he's a good guy, right?

[tooltalk]

@hellopendejos : eh? I don't think the tea party isn't too crazy about his 13% inflation, either - only liberals love inflation.

[lis9211]

that just looked weird, like the girl asks the question then starts using words she probably normally wouldn't understand

[CommonSenseJoe]

@MrJeggus You didn't pay for it and you never will pay for it. What you paid was used to pay others who were already in the program. Medicare and Social Security are nothing more than welfare programs. You need to face that fact, and that they are BROKE!

[DarthTroller]

wow, too bad she isn't smart enough to figure out that when you have unfunded commitments you raise revenue. Ofourse we do have the option to allow senior citizens to be allowed to live in poverty and starve to death after they retire, and the sick and handicapped to be denied healthcare, left to die in the streets. I guess we will hardly notice the crumbling infrastructure when the dead and dying are left piling up in the streets!!

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller You should work for the President. Let's scare people with fairy tales about old people dying in the streets starving and sick. None of which has or will ever happen. You know there are things called the "states" and "local communities" which were taking care of these concerns long before the federal government got involved and screwed it up.

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe Really? Which local communities were those? You seem to be somewhat unfamiliar with the history of the United States. It has happened and will happen again. Why would I want to work for an effete president like Obama? I'll wait for someone like Robspierre to rise up and then I will work for him.

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller I am very familiar with history, and no, it would NOT happen again. Today, it costs nearly 2/3 of every dollar to deliver the other 1/3 in welfare. Private charities and churches, on average, costs 1/3 to deliver 2/3 of every dollar to those who need help. By shifting these programs to the states and communities, the federal government can save and actually help MORE. However, then Washington can no longer buy votes with our own money.

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe If you are very familiar with history then I assume that you know who Thomas Malthus is and if you did, then you know what the future of the US truely is. Your numbers are flawed in regards to private charities. Even so, funding would have to come from somewhere.  The world is not all sunshine and waterfalls. The notion that private charities are going to help anyone with anything is kind of silly, lol.

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller No, my numbers are QUITE CORRECT! We have spend trillions of dollars on the poor, the old, and downtrodden. What do we have to show for it? More, not less! Your notion that the FEDERAL government is and can do a better job of dealing with these problems than the states and the local communities is simply NOT supported by the facts. These have a greater accountability to the people and do a better job of actually solving the problem. All Washington wants is dependency.

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe No your numbers are completely wrong. So I guess Herbert Hoover did a much better job than FDR! lol!! Your embrace of ignorance and misinformation is quite impressive and uniquely American. Have fun being a slave to the corporate hegemony, lol

[treysparker]

@DarthTroller

Wow you're bought into Keynesian history.

Thats so sad. I didnt know people still did.

Hoover was bad but FDR was worse.

if FDR let the market correct itself the depression would have been over within a year, just as it was in 1921.

The exact same scenerio repeated only this time the government (including hoover) felt the need to manipulate the market. Wow the fact you believe what you type is scary.

Propaganda really does work...jesus...

[DarthTroller]

@treysparker hahaha!! Keynian history? He wasn't a historian, lol He was an economist!! Now go take your ridilin : )

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller Just saying my numbers are wrong does not make them wrong. Regardless, it costs MORE for the government to help people than for the local communities to help people. The local communities will not just hand out money to people. They will have more innovative ways of helping the poor and elderly.

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe Just saying they are right doesn't make them right!! Making up facts as you go along doesn't make them true either. You seem to have a tight embrace on your little world of delusions. Good!! As your nation collapses back into the dark ages you can just keep telling yourself that everything is going to be alright. Silly little CommonNonsenseJoe. I bet you will be one of those that will believe that soylent green is really made from sea plankton.

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller We will survive this President. We will continue to be the great nation we are. Interesting reference considering that most predictions had us overpopulated and destroying ourselves decades ago, hence the film. I think you are confused. Are you arguing for more government?

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe The US will not survive much longer. The name may continue, but the nation is failing. The film did make predictions about over population and destroying ourselves decades ago. All of which are coming true.  The sea plankton is in fact dying and global warming is in fact happening, both predicted in this movie from 1973. The size of government is not as relevant as the purpose. Soon it will only exist to accomodate the corporations and enslave the people. This will happen!

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller It was suppose to happen decades ago. It never did, and never will. Believe all that global warming nonsense you want. You better with the program however because the name has been changed to global climate change. I guess they found out we were not getting warmer.

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe What you believe, or what you call it is irrelevent. The average global temperature is rising, as are the sea levels, and polar ice caps are melting. The fact that people suffer under the delusion that they can appeal to a great number of the worlds population by repackaging it as global climate change doesn't change anything. The world is going to suffer a Mathusian Catastrophe. The living will soon envy the dead!

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller I'm not worried. You seem worried enough for the both of us. Enjoy your life!

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe I'm not worried! I've come to enjoy the carnage! There is something perversely amusing in telling someone of their eminent doom knowing full well that they will do nothing to save themselves. Not that it would matter I suppose. Most of the human race will not survive this century even if they tried.

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller Like I said, I have heard this all before and guess what? We are still here and still surviving.

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe Are you really surviving? You should have taken the red pill.

[CommonSenseJoe]

@DarthTroller Actually, I am doing great....things could not be better for me.

[DarthTroller]

@CommonSenseJoe I'm imagining alot of sheep feel the same way, right up until the time they go to the slaughter house. There are two kinds of people in the world today, those who will be eating soylent green, and those who will be soylent green.

[Diatonic5th]

Debt is what accumulates when you start two major wars, pass a failed prescription program (Medicare D), give unsustainable tax cuts to everyone, and then leave office before paying your bill. The restaurant industry calls this "Chew and Screw".

[Huboons]

@Diatonic5th All tax cuts are sustainable. If you cut my taxes to nothing I'll be just fine. What you mean to say is that is that the unproductive like yourself can't continue to have your way through life paid for by me if the federal government doesn't continue to steal from me.

[MakesThingsGoBoom]

@Diatonic5th

And Bush was REALLY good at it.

[FactChecking101]

@Diatonic5th Clinton did all that? I thought he only crashed FM/FM and the banks with sub-prime loans. Learn something everyday I guess.

[sullyrules1]

@Diatonic5th wrong!!!! Bush is not only at fault for the debt! The tax cuts sky rocketed the economy and the 2 wars werent really that costly as compared to our other expenses. Obama has increased the national debt by 34% with unemployment at it highest. Yeah, bush is at some fault but i do believe the tax cuts were right. We were much better off under BUSH then obama as obama has spent the most than ANY U.S. president. Bush was a good president and didnt have time to fix the conomy and debt

[tooltalk]

@Diatonic5th : puahah! Debt is what accumulate when you continue two major wars (and escalate one of them) and start a new one in Libya, then pass a massive stimulus bill; bailout banks in predominantly democrat states like NY and CT; spend trillions to maintain interest-free money to prop up the failing banks and mortgage owners; then you blame the previous guy when hell breaks loose!

[summerblu]

SS $was supposed to be in an 'untouched' lock box, however, the Gov't. has been transferring it to the General Fund 4 years & replacing it with IOUs. If that $ had remained untouched & invested in Treasury notes you would have had plenty of $. Now, with all the baby boomers retiring by the millions how ya gonna replace the $. It's either 3 - 4 workers now supporting 1 SS recipient & soon it will be 2 workers. Well, maybe even 1 for 1 as wages, therefore, ss deductions have declined & no jobs.

[treysparker]

@summerblu

This post sums up the entire issue. Very well said.

[FreshPotatoMafia]

omfg.. what FUCKING PROPAGANDA!

[treysparker]

@FreshPotatoMafia

LOL how is it propaganda? Everything she said is factually accurate. I suppose you think dictionaries are propaganda too.

[FreshPotatoMafia]

@treysparker 100%, the propaganda is the twisted facts, everything she says, is twisted, or mal-formed in some way.

[SauffreJet]

what an arrogant little bitch

[Somai82]

Yeah, cut the spending on medicare and social security so poor people (read blacks and hispanics) can die now in order to save (our precious white) rich kids in the future. The 2.7 trillion $ in tax cuts for the wealthiest is off the table as is the corporate jet tax and the military budget with 2 hugely unpopular wars.

The society the Republicans have been and want to create is so obviously based on greed, racism and militarism. All from a party which professes "Christians" morals. What a joke

[Somai82]

@BrettDunbar Exactly my point, greedy racists preferring to fuck over minorities, poor and old people and bend over so the corporations can ream your ass out and laugh their asses off while you worship the superbowl commercials.

But please keep it, You tanked the dollar so much already, that here in Europe we get US shit and services for almost half the money now and it's about to plunge in another cliff while you still have 14 trillion to cough up :)

[chronDiggity]

It's pretty obvious the republicans got us into this mess more than the democrats did. If you can't see this, then you fit right in with American politics. Just look at how well the lies in this propagandist video will do. AMERICA, #1 (but we lie, so maybe we lie about being #1 but who cares, IGNORANCE RULES MAN)

[chronDiggity]

pure conservative propaganda lol

[chronDiggity]

@BrettDunbar

You should look up these "facts" and find out how they find them. Social Security has a surplus. They are trying to convince us it's all gone, but it isn't. They were never supposed to touch any of it, so how can it be gone? This is republican bullshit.

BTW, what we do about this is elect Ron Paul, and take a more libertarian approach to everything, something republicans hate.

[Silveracity]

@chronDiggity

Where is that Social Security surplus you speak of? Have you seen the "Lock Box"

[chronDiggity]

@Silveracity

The lock box? You don't understand - the lockbox can't be touched by congress. That's illegal.

Are you saying congress has spent our social security surplus? And you're FINE with saying goodbye to that? What are you like hamster of the month?

[Silveracity]

@chronDiggity

I'm saying there is no lockbox, there is no social security surplus, and social security is just a PAYGO ponzi scheme.

[Silveracity]

@chronDiggity

Your calling me an “uninformed idiot” is an example of "Argumentum ad hominem"

I feel sorry for you, because I understand, that you have heard some views that are contradictory to your own, which requires that you block or swear to me. This feeling you have, is cognitive dissonance.

[chronDiggity]

@Silveracity

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chronDiggity 11 minutes ago

Silveracity 39 seconds ago

Maybe if you didn't sit there for 11 minutes trying to come up with some snarky response butthurt response, you would have seen I removed my comment out of respect.

[dhockey63]

every boomer must be like this guy because how else could they have stupidly and selfishly sold our children down the river so they could buy frivolous items on credit cards. The worst generation. My generation will have to make grave sacrifices to reverse your mistakes!

[skeeterou]

This is absolute propaganda horseshit. Do conservatives have absolutely no limit to the lies and outright deception they are willing to put out there to further their agenda? It's absolutely disgusting.

[DillonDee1]

@skeeterou - I agree this is propaganda horseshit

Social Sec has a 2.7 TRILLION DOLLAR SURPLUS & with interest on that & a slightly improving economy it should be okay until 2040 & you could reasonably means tests so it's not "unfunded" at all

With Soc Sec you've money coming in & going out

Now where you do have unfunded liabilities is at Defense. We have soldiers so badly injured now they could each costs us millions over the next 70 yrs

BTW, that girl is a $200k unfunded liability

[chronDiggity]

@BrettDunbar

The national academy of social insurance, actually:

nasi org/research/2010/social-secur­ity-finances-findings-2010-tru­stees-report

It has an annual $77 billion surplus

[DillonDee1]

@BrettDunbar -

"Assets grew from about $47 billion at the end of December 1986 to $2.6 trillion by the end of December 2010"

-- from the SOCIAL SECURITY FEDERAL SITE

;

[treysparker]

@DillonDee1

Oh you got the information from a government website, yeah thats credible LOL

But even if you believe the surplus, its entirely irrelevant and doesnt refute the info in the video.

In 2010, SS paid out more than it took in, and in 2020 (although probably sooner) shit's really going to hit the fan. Check out the numbers yourself.

SS is an unfunded liability, based on a 75 year projection. The numbers in this video are entirely correct.

62 trillion is the latest objective estimate. 

[chronDiggity]

@treysparker

Government website isn't credible, but this commercial is? You do realize the purpose of this commercial is to get people to VOTE REPUBLICAN, RIGHT?

Willful ignorance is what has destroyed this country. Now respond back and tell me how it's really ME who's misinformed. You're not unique.

[DillonDee1]

@treysparker -- It's a red herring - it would be more reasonable to calculate the ''unfunded liability" of White House yard work over the next 75 yrs & include that.

Social Security has a $2.7 Trillion Surplus & has money coming in & out with a minor adjustment such as means testing will be find.

[dhockey63]

@skeeterou i take it you dont know how the national debt works?

[mranthonymcneil85]

The main way to fix the debt, which, oddly enough, NO politician is talking about is getting people back to work. Then again, this is a pointless discussion because if politicians were serious they would sit down and talk to each other to fix these problems. But no, people sit back and blame Obama for this crap, if people can't see that these politicians are screwing us in the ass then people are blind, they are paid by oil companies, activists, corporations and banks.

[spellingbeechamp]

of course, go right after social welfare programs that help the unemployed, elderly, and the people who can't get by on their own. Defend the rich people and make sure they don't have to pay their fair share and heap all of the load on the middle class and make them suffer while the rich and giant corporations can relax

[mypaldave]

Apparently the RINOs and Donkeys decided to do what they always do when facing fiscal reality... stay in dreamland and keep on borrowing and spending. Sad day for America!

[LWCProducts]

Don't worry honey, you have 80 years to pay the crushing taxes on the debt.

Now eat your pees. :)

[styzoom]

Spend 300b per month and receive 180b per month. Epic.

[LIKEaBOSS717]

@ManaTatsuX

I would personally pay for one way ticket for you and your family to leave this country and never come back. It's you that will never fix America, It's you that has destroyed it.

[Amiaworld]

@ManaTatsuX

If the country is so terrible, take your family and go somewhere better.

[dila813]

@Amiaworld No one said this country is terrible. Just that it is broke, we just don't know it yet. The question is, will we leave this country better than our parents or are we just going to rape and pillage while it lasts?

[beta447]

It's a good thing the target audience for this ad doesn't know what any of that shit means.

[shlomowollins]

"I don't know ... but we hit it..." (classic line)

[icimblind]

If we are going to start forcibly evicting dictators at a cost of a billion dollars a day for humanitarian reasons, then we better darn well have a plan in paying back the tax payers borrowed money, Mr. Obama. The Arab League of nations needs to pony up. If not, then Libya can start paying for their freedom with an Oil for Arms program. This multi-trillion dollar nightmare has got to end! We can't be the police force for the entire world! This is the debt that is killing the economy!

[rawrisluv]

@icimblind You know what also is killing the economy? The two wars that Bush started. Don't forget those Bush Tax cuts. Both presidents suck, but to say that Obama is the reason why we have a bad economy is wrong. Both Bush and Obama are the problems with the economy.

[icimblind]

@rawrisluv

Afghanistan was always a haven for terrorists, they just grew out of control under Bill C. If we had left Iraq alone Saddam would have been fighting his neighbors, & the world wouldn't hate us. With that said, Obama followed Bush's tax cuts and that was a good idea, but starting more wars with no one to pay for the first two, is a horrible idea. Let's face it, Obama is economically challenged. If we are going to be freedom fighters for other countries, it is time they pay us back!

[rawrisluv]

@icimblind Now due to the recent attacks in Norway, Norway is now a haven for terrorists, right? By your logic, they have now gotten out of control under their government. Wouldn't you also say that about the US, since that we were attacked by terrorists back at 9/11 and occasionally do get attacked by terrorists since then? We aren't under the term "war" with Libya, and Obama has been getting troops to leave out of Iraq. Thank Obama for getting troops out of Iraq tea-bagger.

[icimblind]

@rawrisluv

My God man, please research Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden before you bloviate your ignorance. Don't become a fanatical Obama supporter. Like a jock strap you will support this nut no matter what he does. Tea bag this, I live in Canada, you far left loon!

[FREEDOM14U]

@rawrisluv

Blame Bush, then Blame All the Democrats that also voted for both wars. They all were on board and condoned taking actions. If you want to lay blame, then mismanagement of the war in Iraq is appropriate, but Bush sure in hell didn't start a pre-existing war that had UN resolutions violated 24/7. Also, you aren't claiming that Bush planned and executed the 911 attacks, and that attacking the terrorists camps in Afghanistan was the wrong action, are you? Bush didn't start any wars.

[GalryZ]

@icimblind Police force? Try murderers.

[Yakko77]

Funny yet terrifying.

[ChanneloftheRepublic]

hey... umm... got any stock tips?