Economic apocalypse: Economists Predict Cutbacks, Tax Increases That 'Aren't Even Imaginable'

There was always three choices facing the government with this catastrophic debt load. Well, four choices, really, but we know these gaggle of criminals are never going to dramatically cut back the size and scope of government. Ha! Picture that. Wait where was I? I got distracted. Ah yes...three choices: default on their loans, massively increase taxes across the board, or print up a buttload of (more) money. The Fed is already under assault from Americans across the political spectrum, who don't exactly know what the Fed is, or who really runs it (the same criminal banksters who got the Fed's stimulus), but they know that they're suffering while the banks who received the tens of trillions from the Fed are just bathing in cash. So inflation is a bit out of the question, even though it's the only long-term solution, outside of outright rebellion of course, which I favor due to the obvious fact that this debt load was accrued fraudulently in the first place. Why should we have to pay it? You know what they should get? The finger. And a multiple life term jail sentence.

So now we either default on our loans, or we tax the living crap out of everyone. Which will of course destroy most of the politicians in Congress, but they're not really representing the American people anyway, and they'll be duly compensated by the Federal Reserve cartel. So the hammer falls on you and I. You're already suffering, your job security - if you have a job - is tenuous at best, your savings and/or investments have been obliterated, and now you will be further burdened with even more criminal robbery, directly from your own government. Are you going to put up with it?

Like I said, this debt is fraudulent, illegal, and criminal. And you are not even required to pay an income tax in the first place, so do yourself and your country a favor: don't pay them. I'm with you. It's my money. I worked for it, they can't have it. Am I a slave? No. Watch Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism, and learn about the Fed, the income tax, and your rights as an American citizen.

ABC News -

American political and economic leaders have sounded the alarm for years about the red ink rising in reports on the federal government's fiscal health.

David Muir looks into how the deficit has become so large.

But now the problem of mounting national debt is worse than it ever has been before with -- potentially dire consequences for taxpayers, according to a report by the nonpartisan Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform.

"It keeps me awake at night, looking at all that red ink," said President Obama in Nashua, N.H., on Feb. 2. "Most of it is structural and we inherited it. The only way that we are going to fix it is if both parties come together and start making some tough decisions about our long-term priorities."

Obama will sign an executive order tomorrow that establishes a bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to make recommendations on how to reduce the country's debt.

Over the past year alone, the amount the U.S. government owes its lenders has grown to more than half the country's entire economic output, or gross domestic product.

Even more alarming, experts say, is that those figures will climb to an unprecedented 200 percent of GDP by 2038 without a dramatic shift in course.


"Within 12 years…the largest item in the federal budget will be interest payments on the national debt," said former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker. "[They are] payments for which we get nothing."

Economic forecasters say future generations of Americans could have a substantially lower standard of living than their predecessors' for the first time in the country's history if the debt is not brought under control.

Government debt, which fuels the risk of inflation, could make everyday Americans' savings worth less. Higher interest rates would make it harder for consumers and businesses to borrow. Wages would remain stagnant and fewer jobs would be created. The government's ability to cut taxes or provide a safety net would also be weakened, economists say.

While much attention has been focused on the government's deficit-spending surge during the recession, many economists agree short-term budget overruns -- as ominous as they may seem -- are not particularly problematic.

"What threatens the ship are large, known and growing structural deficits," said Walker, a problem that few politicians seem eager and readily able to fix.

In a recent ABC News poll, 87 percent of Americans said they are concerned about the federal budget deficit and national debt, and most strongly disapprove of how their political leaders are handling the situation.

But public dissatisfaction has not proven enough to compel members of Congress or current and previous Administrations to set aside their partisan differences to achieve a balanced budget.

Most Republicans don't want to raise taxes; most Democrats don't want to cut spending. The result is a stalemate on how to put America back in the black.

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