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Yea everywhere is glossing over this... What would the GDP be without government spending? How much longer can the government float the economy?


Not much longer when interest rate payments are well on their way to $1T per year ($659 billion as of October), the bulk of the budget (66%) is non-discretionary and unfunded liabilities are $211T.




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