John:
You asked, what is the size of the total consolidated national debt?
The President of the Dallas Fed says $99.2 trillion. I would add $20-50 trillion for bailouts and collateral, securities and derivative fraud. This is the sum total of the cost of:
1. Suppressed technology
2. Having your currency issued by a private bank
3. Letting Wall Street and the private bank run your government and “manage” financial marketsÂ
4. Having no place based financial reporting
5. Having public education which excludes basic education regarding economics and money
6. Depending on a war economy for income
7. Having covert operations to stop anyone who tries to change 1-6
These are simply tactics for stealing an entire continent of natural resources using finance rather than an invasion. Another way of saying it is that $100 trillion + is the outstanding corruption tax we “owe.” Part of our challenge is that the obligation (the debt) has now been sold to a lot of other innocent men and women and institutions.
The unanswered question in all of this is “where is the money, and how do we get it back?” A good place to start is to stop allowing more to be stolen.
Best,
Catherine
watching the collapse of the empire from “down under” I am optimistic that a future US in which the basic principles of your “Founding fathers” will be upheld will inevitably rise to dominate the psyche of the nation. This, of course, needs to come from the “grass roots” level where the ordinary citizen becomes educated and proactive in purging the country of those elements which have exploited the people for a long time. I see a groundswell developing and no doubt there will be “blood spilled”. When your people in unison say and act upon the words ” I am mad as hell and I wont put up with this anymore”…..only then will the American people rise to a life that is worth living.
I think most people do not realize how hugh the U.S. is. I have driven across it many times and it is mind-boggling how much there is here–there is so much to steal.
Also, it is scary how far down the bottom really is. I found this out when I spent a couple weeks off the beaten track down in central Mexico. Reading about it and being surrounded by grinding poverty are very different experiences.