Can you predict the future? In some ways, of course you can

Federal deficit by year:

• 2000: $236 billion
  
• 2001: $128 billion
• 2002: $158 billion 
• 2003: $378 billion 
• 2004: $413 billion 
• 2005: $318 billion 
• 2006: $248 billion 
• 2007: $161 billion 
• 2008: $459 billion 
• 2009: $1.41 trillion 
• 2010: $1.29 trillion 
• 2011: $1.30 trillion 
• 2012: $1.07 trillion 
• 2013: $680 billion 
• 2014: $485 billion 
• 2015: $442 billion 
• 2016: $585 billion 
• 2017: $665 billion 
• 2018: $779 billion 
• 2019: $984 billion 
• 2020: $3.13 trillion 
• 2021: $2.77 trillion 
• 2022: $1.38 trillion 
• 2023: $1.70 trillion 
• 2024: $1.83 trillion 

Notice anything?  

Sure: Starting with the unleashing of the Chyna virus, annual deficits went crazy--as most rational adults could have predicted.  Once Lord Fauci and Debbie Brix fastballed the "you gotta lock everyone down" bullshit by us, everything went predictably haywire.

Problem is, government spending hasn't gone back to "normal" (and won't).  Because as everyone should know by now, the attention span of the average voter is about three weeks.  So as far as most Americans are concerned, whatever happened last year is "normal"--meaning annual deficits close to two trillion dollars.  And of course every member of your moronic, corrupt congress knows that.

You have no idea what this means.  I get it, and totally understand.  It's not your area of expertise; as far as you know these numbers are total abstractions, with no real-world significance, eh?

Now stay with me a bit longer, cuz I'm about to show you the significance.

Lying sons of whores--i.e. most members of congress (and others) want you to believe that deficits and debt don't matter.  That's horseshit, but you prefer to believe the earnest assurances from congress that it's true.  And in their "defense," most of them are too stupid to know.  Their entire "logic" is "We've always had deficits, and debt, and everyt'ing's still totally fine, eh?  So why be upset, deplorable?" 

Let me try to explain: 12-year-old sez "I saw a buncha guys jump outta a plane, an' dey wuz jus' fine!  So...I gots me an umbrella whut look jus' like that thing they had on, an' I gon' jump off duh top of duh barn!"

Any predictions?

People who don't know about numbers, including compound interest, bond markets and aerodynamic drag coefficients just shrug.  "Yeh, it should work."

When adults use this level of "reasoning," it's far too late to educate 'em.

SO...I don't expect any of ya to believe me, cuz you have no idea about "exponential growth" or how to integrate the difference between two functions.  You weren't taught how to do that.  But there's a thing called the "Debt Clock" that simply takes the current trends and extrapolates 'em.  And it says that at current rates, four years from today the U.S. national debt will have grown from $37 TRILLION to $46.7 trillion--an increase of over 26% in just four years.

Just the yearly interest we have to pay on that debt is forecast to be $1.35 Trillion in that year.  Last fall the interest we had to pay was about $800 billion per year.  And since we have to borrow the money to pay the interest, things constantly get worse.

Practically speaking, there's no way out of this hole, because congress refuses to cut spending.  Trump tried, but an endless series of DECREES by liberal judges blocked all those efforts.

So where does that leave us?

On some level, you know.  Or at least the half of Americans that pay taxes and aren't part of the "I gon' loaf an' yew gon' pay me" crowd.