In 2023, the federal government collected 4.47 trillion dollars from us, the American taxpayer. In 2023, the federal government spent 6.2 trillion dollars in fiscal year 2023. That's a deficit of $1.78 trillion dollars. Where did the 1.78 trillion dollars come from? We borrowed it. And it added to the national debt which has grown in 2024 to a whopping $35 trillion dollars. How much is a trillion you say? Well if you started counting one number per second without stopping it would take approximately 31,688 years to count to one trillion. I’ll let you do the math on 35 trillion.
The U.S. has carried a debt ever since its founding in 1776. The country borrowed 75 million dollars from foreign investors to fund the war effort during the Revolutionary War. By 1930, it had grown to 16 billion dollars. Still a manageable number. It crossed the 1 trillion mark in 1981 and here we sit 43 years later at 35 trillion dollars.
Who’s at fault? Well it’s a bipartisan problem. It started with George Washington and continued to grow through Joe Biden. Some presidents did better than others. Andrew Jackson is the President who decreased the debt the most, nearly eradicating it completely between 1829 - 1837 by reducing the total by 99.42%. Abraham Lincoln’s years in the Oval Office saw the largest percentage increase in National Debt under any President, increasing 2859% overall. There are circumstances, however, with each President. Lincoln had a war between the states. Donald Trump's first term saw one of the worst pandemics in history.
But the facts still remain. This country can not survive in the fiscal situation we are in today and that is spending more than we take in. China gets stronger every day and we get weaker. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to see our future generations speaking chinese and playing with stuffed Pandas. We need to do something. Now!
The Trump administration is trying to do something about it. It has created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Despite its name, DOGE is not a Cabinet-level department but rather a temporary contracted organization under the direction of the President of the United States. Its purpose is to carry out Trump's agenda of federal spending cuts and deregulation, and, according to the order that established it, to "modernize federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity. DOGE is scheduled to end on July 4, 2026. Its creation and subsequent actions have been the subject of significant controversy, including protests and ongoing lawsuits.
So what kind of lunatics do we have in this country that would protest in favor of waste and fraud in government spending? And how can some little piss-ant judge in Podunk New Hampshire put a halt to what we the people, in a landslide election, voted for in November. If we followed the Constitution, our forefathers set up, these judges would be a fart in a windstorm.
Stop wasting our money!
Written by Walt Ryba February 18, 2025
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