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| Saildrone Surveyor USV (unmanned surface vehicle) armed with Lockheed Martin JAGM (Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles) Missiles |
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| 3D Custom Figurine |
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| The US Department of the Treasury building in Washington, DC [Daniel Heuer/Reuters] |
Total debt, which includes debt owed to others and what the government owes itself, has doubled since January 2017, when Trump began his first term as president. US debt at the time was $19.95 trillion.
The US spends about $7 trillion annually, with about 60 percent of that going to Social Security Administration (SSA) payments, health insurance including Medicare and Medicaid, and veterans’ care.
Public debt borrowed from domestic and foreign investors makes up 80 percent – roughly $32 trillion – of the gross debt, according to Treasury data.
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Separately, another 20 percent of the gross national debt – about $8 trillion – is owed intra-governmentally and therefore does not affect overall finances.
There we go with 'the government owes money to itself' again.
I'm still going with ten years until we get hyperinflation and things get really bad.
But all this fussing about jobs and housing and war is just avoiding the elephant in the room - the umpteen zillion old folks on social security and Medicare. All I can see is that inflation is going to continue to increase. I suspect it might be ten years before the rate starts going up monthly. About then the rate will start going up exponentially and within months we'll be using trillion dollar bank notes to buy groceries. That's when people will start using the Chinese Yen or Crypto-bit strings.
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| Krispy Krunchy Chicken (Sophia Mick) |
Krispy Krunchy Chicken Has 35 Metro-Area Outposts. Ever Heard of It? - Matt KalinowskiYou’d likely guess that KFC is the country’s biggest fried chicken chain, with 4,100 locations. But No. 2 is less obvious. It’s not Chick-fil-A (3,100 locations), Popeyes (2,000) or Church’s (975) but Krispy Krunchy Chicken.Who?KKC flies under the radar by cleverly leveraging gas stations and convenience stores that have full kitchens and fryers. A lot of them. Founded in 1989 in Lafayette, La., the privately held company numbers 3,600 locations in 49 states. It even has the quaint origin story of being started by a single convenience store owner, Neal Onebane, a real-life Cajun with a very good fried chicken recipe.
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| Lancia D50 driven by Formula One World Champion Alberto Ascari during the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix |
The Lancia D50 featured a revolutionary 2.5-litre V8 engine utilized as a stressed structural chassis member and distinctive pannier fuel tanks mounted between the wheels. Ascari famously wore a bright blue helmet and unfortunately crashed this car into the Monaco harbor during the race. Four days later he died when he crashed while testing another race car at Monza.
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| Lancia D50 |
