Much attention is directed to the approaching congressional vote on raising the debt limit, which makes the following mysterious.
According to the U.S. Treasury, the $14.294 trillion limit was exceeded on April 15. See it for yourself here.
The latest figures to the penny:
Total Public Debt Outstanding
April 14: $14,270,792,119,184.89
April 15: $14,305,336,580,992.11
April 18: $14,309,159,097,877.65
April 19: $14,320,468,555,091.68
HT: Ken Sturzenacker
Tyler Durden solves the mystery.
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's government. What did we expect?
ReplyDeleteDebt is directly related to bureaucracy, where, like the dog that can never catch its tail, there is never enough bureaucracy to solve the problem that more bureaucracy created in the first place to solve the problem that more bureaucracy created in the first place to solve the problem that more bureaucracy created in the first place to solve the problem...
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