This article made me laugh and cry at the same time

The following article, by something (or someone) called “Project Nightfall,” is so wrong in so many ways, that I had to admire the author for possibly breaking a record in finding and using scare-words, some of which I have bolded for your amusement:

America’s debt crisis: $39 trillion and rising—a ticking time bomb!
Look at this number. Stare at it. Let it sink in. $39,000,000,000,000. Thirty-nine trillion dollars. That is the staggering, incomprehensible sum the United States now owes.

In March 2026, a line was crossed. The total US national debt officially surpassed the $39 trillion mark for the very first time in recorded history.

Almost every year since the beginning of the United States, we have set a new record in the official “debt” (that isn’t actually debt). It’s what happens when an economy grows.

This wasn’t just another milestone. It was a warning sign flashing in neon. A critical threshold breached, silently, but with immense implications.

Nah, it’s not critical and it’s not a threshold. It just means Gross Domestic Product has grown — a good thing.

And the speed? That is what truly shocks you to your core.

Just five short months ago, this colossal debt stood at $38 trillion. A terrifying figure in itself, but one that already feels like a distant memory.

Two months before that, it was $37 trillion. Do you see the pattern emerging? A relentless, accelerating surge that defies all conventional understanding.

The sheer velocity of this growth is what forces everyone to pause. It makes the most hardened financial expert, and the everyday citizen alike stop and question everything.

Yes, the economy is growing fast. When the so called, misnamed “debt” doesn’t grow fast enough, we have recessions or depressions.

Because this is not merely a big number. It is not just an abstract concept whispered in economic halls. It is a living, breathing, and terrifyingly growing entity.

Wow! All that breathless prose to describe the effects of this equation: Gross Domestic Product = Federal & Non-federal Spending + Net Exports. Yes, the result of that terrifyingly growing entity is a growing GDP.

Today, this monumental debt has already eclipsed the size of the entire US economy. Think about that for a moment. The nation’s liabilities now outweigh its total annual output.

Which means absolutely nothing. The two numbers are not comparable.

What does it mean lance.

Nope. It just means that people are happy to invest in Treasury securities.

And the warnings are dire. Analysts across the globe are sounding the alarm, projecting a future that chills you to the bone.

Only the analysts who have been wrong for 86 years are sounding that alarm.

They warn this debt could skyrocket to approximately 120% of the Gross Domestic Product within the next decade. This is not a certainty, but a terrifying trajectory if nothing changes.

The Debt/GDP ratio tells nothing about the health of a government or the economy — nothing at all.

But here is the most insidious part. The hidden cost that many people never truly see, never truly grasp. The silent drain on the nation’s future. When the debt you owe is larger than everything you produce in a year, it signals a profound shift, a dangerous imbance.

The so-called “debt” is really just the total amount of dollars in T-security accounts. The government settles it simply by returning the dollars to their owners. If it wanted to, it could pay off the entire $39 trillion without collecting a single cent in taxes.

The United States is now spending an astronomical sum every single year just to service this debt. A mind-boggling $900,000,000,000.

Nine hundred billion dollars. Vanishing into thin air, purely as interest payments. This isn’t going towards schools, or infrastructure, or innovation. It’s just the cost of borrowing.

Imagine the impact of that lost capital. What could nearly a trillion dollars annually achieve if it wasn’t swallowed by interest?

There’s no such thing as “lost capital.” Those dollars flow into the economy and contribute to the Gross Domestic Product. Nothing just disappears. If you hold T-bills, T-notes, or T-bonds, you’ve likely received some of those so-called “lost” dollars, which you may have used to pay off debts.

And the pressure is only mounting. New global challenges, new emergencies, new demands on the national purse.

There is no national purse. The federal government created dollars as it needs them.

Consider the soaring defense spending, directly tied to ongoing international conflicts. These urgent pressures mean that colossal interest payment figure could climb even faster.

The more interest the federal government pays, the more growth dollars enter the economy.

This did not erupt overnight. This was not the work of a single policy or a single leader. This has been a slow, methodical build-up.

It has been accumulating across decades. It has been a consequence of decisions made by different administrations, through different political ideologies.

Yes, and for 86+ years, those who don’t understand the differences between federal finance and personal finance have been predicting a disaster that never happens: The government running short of money.

But now, we have arrived at a critical juncture. The accumulation has reached an undeniable tipping point.

And exactly what is that “tipping point”? The author never says, perhaps because it doesn’t exist.

The question is no longer whether this debt truly matters. That debate is over. The evidence is too overwhelming.

The non-existent evidence?

The real question, the urgent question, is when will its full, devastating impact be felt by every single one of us?

Because the leap from $39 trillion to a horrifying $40 trillion is not a distant threat. It may materialize faster than anyone can possibly expect.

At what point does a number, so vast, so seemingly abstract, stop being just a figure on a screen?

At what point does it start to feel terrifyingly, undeniably real?

The number is real, always has been real, and always will be real — but not terrifying to those  who understand the facts of Monetary Sovereignty. 

Those unaware of the facts will keep being scared by people spreading nonsense, aiming to trick others into not demanding things like improved Social Security, better Medicare, the removal of FICA and other pointless taxes, and efforts to close the income, wealth, and power gap between the rich and everyone else.

What the article basically says is: “You’re being taken advantage of for a supposed good reason, so stay quiet while the wealthy keep getting richer and everyone else swallows the lies. Ignore the fact that we’ve been making the same claim for 86 years and have been wrong the entire time. Just trust us.”.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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