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The Total Animated, Annotated US Debt
With debt ceilings being summarily dismissed and billions and trillions of dollars being thrown around like confetti, we have become almost entirely de-sensitized to the colossal size of the numbers involved (and to be frank de minimus impact from any 'compromise'. In order to comprehend the size of the US Debt load, Demonocracy created this video visualized in physical $100 bills. And you thought a Jumbo-Jet full of cash was a lot...
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Those guys are visual ninjas
Recycling has helped save trees. So....... this is Bullish!
Debt doesn't matter when interest rates are near zero.
That is why they will stay near zero for a very long time.
It is all normal until it isn’t.
37 rows down 17 over that’s my pallet
Fuck you Ben
The amount of debt in the Federal Reserve system is around $53T, worldwide system is $200T.
So? It's a debt based system, such being there has been no way to pay for it as the only way you can for it is to create more of it, which the system is having a hard time doing as you are getting into the Laws of large numbers.
It's called game over, reboot, collapse, fat lady sings, etc.
Statue of Liberty is imprisoned by the mountainous bars of debt based Currency. How symbolic.
just for giggles, try this one at your next holiday family get-together : ask anyone "if i gave you a $1 bill every single second of the day, 24/7 .... how long until you have $1T ?".
(answer = 3170 YEARS) . Then , explain the total size of our national debt , unfunded entitlements, etc etc ..... then DUCK as the family member tries punching you in the face for ruining his/her holiday !
I think you missed a zero....believe it is 31,700.
effin-A man, you are right .... thanx ! My bad: it sure is 31700 years .....
in that case, i guess you should also be covering your marble-sack too ,while you're ducking !
with my math skills i just might be very very qualified to work as a guv accountant ! how about that !
I'm so fucking depressed I simply must go shopping...perhaps something in Yellow
When doing the right thing is doing the wrong thing.
Max-out your CC, top up your mortgage, take as many holidays as you can, but make sure you can still stack Au+Ag (dig a hole, I mean, buy a boat). Use the system for what it's there for, leverage up. That way you get to live the lifestyle you want and you're protected after the collpase.
Leverage gets transfered and spread-out after a collapse anyway...they're gonna evict 100 million people? No, everyone will have to pay just like war reparations. Gov's will take on debt (private to public), you'll stay in your homes, and it's print-city.
You can't beat them at this game, you can only join them...so fuck-it, join them, but hedge along the way.
Enjoy the debt, enjoy the collpase, and really enjoy the recovery.
And sleep well knowing stackers represent less than 1/10th or 1% of the general public...and that's all that counts
there's enough yellow in usa...try something in mossy oak
I did just that on Thanksgiving... to everyone there.
I just love crop dusting ppl in stores. I shit myself and walk away and listen to the fallout an aisle over. Shopping can be fun. It's what you make of it, right?
That's even assuming it's there, and not rehypothecated endlessly around the globe.
I am in agreement with you - however; Whether it is 16T or 53T does not matter, as there have been no consequences by "we the governed" or by international markets. As such its only a number that seems to have little negative rellevance to the average person on the street. The number might as well be 100T or higher vs. whatever the current or future number is.
The most shocking part is that not only is our debt no longer backed by gold; it's no longer even backed by paper...
If you confiscated every single US federal reserve note and US minted coin from all over the world, you'd only have a little over $1 trillion; enough to pay off only about 8% of our "official" $16.4 trillion national debt. We don't even have enough paper to pay our debts!
Amazing...
I've come full circle. At first I didn't care as a stupid piece of sheep. Then I cared and realized how insane everything is. Then I didn't care anymore because all I see are stacks of paper in that video. I think I'm completely desensitized. Anyone else feel like that?
dare to not care!
dare to care...
Those stacks of paper are going to vanish in no time once the Treasury starts printing One Trillion Dollar notes in true and tested Zimbabwian style.
http://www.methodshop.com/picts/trillion/trillion-bill.jpg
Yes, but we do have paper mortgages which are leveraged to the hilt for all that debt aquired. This explains the influx of rich Asian foriegners.
Rich asian foreigners don't give a flyin' fuck about all that fucking financial paper, they're after real physical land you can fuckin' walk on ...and fuck on I suppose.
The paper debt world is a fantasy. A game, like monopoly. Banks create "dollars" out of thin air, just numbers on a ledger, the first fantasy. They loan those fantasy "dollars" to people to buy real stuff. The debt paper becomes a fantasy, a joke, when the "dollars" aren't paid back, and remains on bank books at full original value, also a fantasy, a joke, a game. Then it's pledged multiple times over for other paper "assets", a double fantasy, joke, game.
I don't know the actual numbers, but I would speculate there's a thousand dollars of fantasy financial paper for every dollar of real stuff booked as collateral. That's a huge fucking fantasy.
The whole fucking financial system is a huge fucking fantasy now, a huge fucking joke, a huge fucking game. Hundreds of trillions of fantasy "dollars" of fucking fantasy financial paper tied to frightfully little real stuff by comparison.
All those fucking bankers acting like all their fucking fantasy financial paper is legit. That's pure fucking madness, insanity.
Nope, those rich asian folks don't give a flyin' fuck about all that fucking paper bullshit, they're after real physical stuff they can fuckin' see, touch, put in their fuckin' pocket, walk the fuck on, what the fuck ever.
Those fucking bankers and all their fucking fantasy bullshit financial paper can go take flying fucking leap.
You'll know we are in REAL trouble when those paper bills in the video are replaced by equally huge mountains of Compact Disks?
Maybe by Bronco's third term?
Or a giant ass USB drive ..HAha
Nah - will just be on some server somewhere out in "the cloud". No one will ever see it, or ever be in physical touch with it ever again. Then cue up the South Park banker "and it's gone".
"Sorry - this line is for customers who actually have money in this bank. Please step aside."
Here is your EBT card.....
Oh I don't know - is there really anything magical about a coloured piece of paper with arbitrary writing and denomination?
This video is much more scary than Tyler's because the problem is actually much, much worse. If the first one gave you indigestion, this one will make you crap a brick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFP-2_iDYMU
That's sure want you to believe it's normal, but that's about to change. The big scam is with Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, along with other treasuries of course. Here's a chart that shows how over valued they've become since 2008 http://stockscooter.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/the-diagonal-triangle-from-...
These are only supposed to rise with CPI. The chart shows how overvalued they are. The sheeple think they are making safe returns and that all this appreciation is guaranteed CPI Adjustment from the government. Can't you imagine all the bond traders selling this crap to unsuspecting people, because they can't sell real bonds. They are telling people that the bonds are guaranteed and so are the returns. There's plenty of those types out there that are unscrupulous in their dealings. This post may just be words to those that need to hear the truth.
How overvalued?
The entire bond market is massively overvalued. That's all that happened in 2008 - the bubble dislocated from the housing market to sovereign bond markets.
It's also what should scare the living shit out of everyone, because once that pops, what's left to blow up?
exactly...NOTHING ! >>>> RESET TIME ! ( and/or WAR).
Merry Christmas !!
banks
Sure it doesnt matter, until inflation, real inflation - is really understood by the voters; or until the intention crashing of the dollar to help exports turns the currency war into a fighting war, or until the velocity of money picks up speed - at the request of the those in congress; inflating another bubble.... or until....
Yep, they'll stay near zero...like in Europe
This zero% is for 1%ers. not for me not for you.
When the interest rates rise, not sure how they ever will. OMG! its over. If they don't rise we burn slowly until OMG!
MillionDollarBogus_,
As long as the bank loaning, continues to buy 90%+ thereof.
Game over.
"We the People" have lost.
Of course it matters. It may not matter to you and I tonight, but it does matter. And when our trading partners finally have had enough of our absurd spending, when they reduce purchases in volume of our electronic T bills, interest rates will endure a rapid rise and it will be the 4th coming of the black knight. Game, Set, Match.
Debt does not matter. Cannot believe you are on this board and said that.
"Debt doesn't matter...."
Until it does.
This is why the LTP is for digital money -- and I use the term 'money' with great purpose...
The ultimate plan is to move us into 'credits' -- again all digital and even more fiat than, well, fiat. Demonocracy won't be able to vizualize credits (cartoon or otherwise) because there was never a physical credit instrument such as a $100 bill.
Very clever these World Bank/UN/BIS asshats are... very clever indeed.
Agreed - that is one powerful video.
Academy Award Winning
Speechless
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Thats why no audio/words neccessary.
When you contemplate how truly sad this is, it brings tears to your eyes.
Nice read today brought to us by the guy who got eaten alive by Schiff.
http://www.businessinsider.com/alan-simpson-is-wrong-about-debt-2012-12
So - under this retard''s theory....why have any taxes at all???? I mean - why even bother taxing? While we are at it....double spending! WTF....who cares? Right??
Is this guy Schiff related to Krugman ,or is he just one of his bum boys ?
The guy is a Chief Economist...
Holy shit Mike Norman!
He like writes from an alternate dimension.
So if we are to believe the article, we can forget all of our concerns and, sell our pm's and no longer worry about this whole thing crashing. Whew, I feel a lot better now. Guess I'll go back to TV and not check with ZH anymore, NOT
Fuck this shit!!! I'm maxing out all my CC's and calling it even. Let's finish it and Bankrupt the system which is already dead.
"I'm maxing out all my CC's and calling it even."
Problem is they'll throw us average folk in jail, at end of a bunch of guns, with trillions of bullets in store. They've proven very well that they won't do that for those tweaker bankstas and politicos that have caused and are causing massive national debt.
I miss the gold ol' days where if you wanted more money, you either dug it out of the fucking ground or shot some asshole for it. Oh well, I can't wait to start trading in bottles of water and bullets...
Add to your list, smokes, wine, whiskey and coffee. Staples in almost every home
Plenty more trees left ...
Trees, we don't need no stink'n trees!
We can create zeros on solar power now. It's the true Greenback.
Funny thing is, in about 5 seconds you can create more electronic dollars than have ever been created in all the history of the world. You don't have to press the zero button very many times to do that.
Lumberjacks got families to feed too.
Its a good thing zeros are small
No doubt, zeros are small but definitely bigger than asshole. hurting a lot.
And the only thing keeping the ponzi scheme going is the fact that the USD is still the world reserve currency thanks to the military backed petrodollar...
If only the sheeple knew...
The sheeple don't care. They just want more Honey Boo-Boo.
..and free shit, and abortions
I don't understand how one can be against government interference and for government interference at the same time. Where's CognitiveDissonance when you need him?
It is more of a reflection of the narcissism that permeates society today...
The complete and utter lack of empathy...
Wtf does abortions got to do with anything ..lol
Only that you're going to be paying for them before you know it, that's all.
nothing, there are plenty of folks who scream liberty talking the talk but not willing to walk the walk
Nice legacy, Washington D.C. So tell us again how our debt situation first requires higher taxes, and second requires the abolition of the debt ceiling.
This debt issue highlights the illegitimacy of our Federal Government. No other evidence is required.
This debt issue highlights the illigitimacy of our Federal Government. No other evidence is required.
+1Trillion
Few wiser words were ever written.
no problem we will just bring back the 10k bill and the 100k bill..lol
I nominate portraits of Obama and Wilson.
Ironic visual - liberty imprisoned in a wall of debt...
More like "iconic". Every American should have that sight burned into their mind, so painfully that they actually take the time to change how they live and what they teach their children. Eventually, more will get it. Not if... when.
So tell me, when Rome sacked the temple in Jerusalem, were they after the gold?
How'd that work out for them?
Wealth doesn't mean a thing without a corresponding trustworthy and free society to go along with it.
Saddam's pallets of Benjamins sat and rotted in his "kingdom".
Compelling video, but don't worry that guy Cramer was just on the TeeVee telling people that AAPL was undervalued.
And let's not forget AAPL = $513B = IBM ($214B) + GE($223B) + UTX($73B)
Can you do one of those in nickles?
Was I the only one that heard Krugman in the background screaming "MOAR!!!!"?
And in one way I'm really impressed. Think of the amazing con job the oligarchs in the US have pulled, they have mined that much out of the planet on basically empty promises. Money for nothing and chicks for free.
Thought you had credit card caps? Total world debt/gdp was over the edge long ago. Discussions over the amount of debt are useless. It's like you forgot to close the tap of the bathtub 18 months ago and still discussing why your feet are wet. Next!
"Next!"
To extend your metaphor, now the question is when will this floor underneath the bathtub (and my feet) collapse, and oh yeah, we are on the second floor, and so what then???
Never mind the debt. It´s nothing compared to all paper denominated in dollars. It´s been a good ride folks but the people of America will soon realise just how much they have consumed compared to their production. There is no such thing as a free lunch.... in the long run.
What's important though, as I understand it, is not that there's this huge, apparently unresolvable debt, but that the FED will now be buying up the entire supply of long bonds. Do you understand what that means!? Thanks to the FED, there'll be no supply left for the rest of the market! Bond prices are going to the fucking moon, I tell you! The fucking moon!
Amazing that it took those geniuses at the FED to figure this out, I would have thought somebody else would have stumbled across blatant, outright debt monetization at some point in the history of human civilization.
Separating issuer of currency from the funder of government was freaking genius, maniacal or both.
not going to moon - who's going to want them? - I have a $100Trillion Zim bill, mint condition, hanging on my office wall that I'm selling for only $10Billion US - takers?
Supply and demand my friend, supply and demand. With their safe-haven status USTs are the world's favorite risk-off parking place for money, and now they won't be available to the broader market! Bernanke's a fucking genius! Long rates to 0!
safe-haven yes, until they're not
Lets not forget that the Arab Spring was about food inflation,
not democrasy.
If we carry on exporting inflation via money printing there going to
be a very pissed off world out there with nothing left to lose.
Just how many wars can we fight at once ?
We are about to find that out.
My part of hell is burning much more slowly than yours. WINNING!
Dear Federal Reserve, Please ship one half pallet of Ben Franklins to my home address. (which I'm sure you have) I am willing to pay freight, and I have a forklift for unloading. Thanks in advance.
Dear A Lunatic,
One (1) half pallet is on its way. A word of advice, if I may, spend it fast my friend. That half pallet will only get you a loaf of bread soon. Boy, I'm sure glad I keep loading up on gold, ha!
Shalom,
Bennie B
I'll spent it faster than a TSA employee on payday in Amsterdam..........
I'll spend it faster than a TSA employee can steal an Ipad.
Hah! a TSA agent has no need of Amsterdam, they get all their thrills at work... paid to grope no less... why would they go to Amsterdam and pay to grope?
You clearly have never been to Amsterdam....
Okay, bad analogy I admit. No fucking way any self respecting Amsterdamsel would be seen with TSA scum.
Fat-assed ho's take magic carpet rides???
forklifts are the new wheel-barrows!
On second thought Ben, forget the half-pallet, just send over one of the trailer trucks....I want it lasting to at least the end of the year!!
The money in the video has already been spent.
There's the kicker.
Is that G-Pap's mom sitting on that sofa?
That's a whole fucking lot of political fuck up and corruption..
"That's a whole fucking lot of capital mis-allocation..." - FIXED.
Roger that.
I wish they would do the same thing for Japan's debt. Now that would be a video.
Godzilla would smoke those stacks of bills and free Liberty, and then return to the sea in his eternally lonesome resignation.
Here's a dumb question.
Can we possibly grow our way out of this?
No kidding.
Is that type of growth possible?
Of course....your Debt Burden will grow Exponentially
Good one !
Those stacks of cash are chump change. They didn't include the unfunded liabilities.
just imagine if those were $20 bills
Jeez, I thought $16$ was a lot of money until I viewed this!
Starbucks, burger joints, cars, houses, factorys, electricity, etc etc. in economic sales and production make this look miniscule.
Just cut out the phony wars, tax welfare for the rich, and end NAFTA and don't sign the TPP and we can pay off the $16T in no time.
Can they do one for the value of derivatives held by the tbtfs. I've got twenty minutes to kill.
anybody got a match?
Impressive visualization of the debt insanity!
2 important points are the BASIC SYSTEM IS
privatized money made out of nothing as debts;
no more debts means there is no more money!
The BASIC SYSTEM makes it absolutely impossible to resolve the problems of runaway debt slavery automatically becoming debt insanity. The deeper problems are practically impossible to resolve, because money is the most taboo topic, far more suppressed than sex! The reasons are straightforward. In biology there is a necessary connection between sex and death. In economics there is a necessary connection between money and murder.
Totaly completely insane world.
anything goes - rule of law be damned - if you are in the right club
Did you mean 'Fight Club"?
Fight Club is for those who are not in the 'right club'.
What else is the world's largest ponzi scheme supposed to look like?
Nice job today Kevin. Extra cookie for you... after dinner, of course.
Genius...
...and then it gave little Ben an idea...
(Actually, this could possibly be the first viral black swan video to kill the US dollar)....probably not, but who knows?..if enough sheeple see it...
The sheeple would probably just say 'Ooo look! An airplane! There's a truck! What's that big statue?'
lol
Does is come with the Burger meal?
Can you supersize that?
no, no supersize for you. You no liki me soup, no soup for you .... go away.
And soon with Bernanke, the fed and Obama it will be multiple times that!
Bernanke and the feds infinite printing.
Obama's infinite deficit.
See where this is going?
Spend and print until a complete loss in faith by the rest of the world in the ability of the US to pay it back. Bernanke knows the end game. His own son has over $400,000 in school debt. Bernanke intends to print the debt away through an ever devaluing US dollar.
Oh man I feel bad for his son. His daddy is unofficial supreme leader of planet earth, with the capacity to bring down history's greatest super power by access to the cash printer.
The $400k are merely symbolic. It means nothing to them. Haha
Repudiate the debt, take the punch tht comes with it, create a new country from the ruins.
Now ain't that some shit? How long til this slow-mo trainwreck goes to warp speed?
HOLY DOG SHIT! That's a lot of cash. There is no coming back from that.
Translation: Blue horseshoe loves Acme pallet
http://www.acmepallet.com/html/picbot.html
I wonder what the Japanese version would look like...
I think they were $100 short in that last frame.
APRES NOUS LE DELUGE
A deluge of an unprecedented magnitude is both inevitable and imminent. The consequences of the economic and political mismanagement will have a devastating impact on the world for a very long time. And the consequences will touch most corners of the world in so many different areas; economic, financial, social, political and geopolitical.
http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/english-news/7423-apres-nous-le-deluge
Simple way to cut that pile back down to size, just add one zero to each bill.
You're welcome.
Very moving video. Should be shared with the masses asap.
Remember the commercial about littering and at the end the Indian (Iron eyes Cody) had a single tear running down his cheek...That is me after watching this. Watching this is just sad...sad that we allowed these insane fucks in office to do this.
Sweet, found the commercial...
http://youtu.be/j7OHG7tHrNM
And unfortunately that Indian was about a legitimate as the USD is -- he kept it secret until the end of his life that he wasn't native american, but italian.
A better metaphor for the US would be the end of 2010 with a minor rewrite: "My god, it's full of fraud!"
At my old-school job women were dissallowed by law to apply till years after I started employment.
Later the employer was ruled by Federal Judge under Consent Decree, with special conditions granted to minorities to increase minority employment.
Some of the old-school boys who loudly proclaimed, glorified, and sometimes made fun of their Italian heritage suddenly had monetary reason (for promotion) to change their identity to Latin, which many did indeed change their identity for this exact reason.
One of the above ex-Italian changed to-Latin persons received one or two promotions, then was busted for lying and forced to early retirement.
It was quite a spectacle.
everyday I feel like that
Yipes.
And today was going to be optimistic day.
Not anymore.
"Can we fix it?"
"No...It's fucked."
What about a video for total debt including future unfunded liabilities? 86.8 Trillion - over 5 times what we see here....as of 12/31/11 according to WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732335320457812737403908763...
From the article:
The actual liabilities of the federal government—including Social Security, Medicare, and federal employees' future retirement benefits—already exceed $86.8 trillion, or 550% of GDP. For the year ending Dec. 31, 2011, the annual accrued expense of Medicare and Social Security was $7 trillion. Nothing like that figure is used in calculating the deficit. In reality, the reported budget deficit is less than one-fifth of the more accurate figure.
Heart breaking.
Those stacks wouldn't look as big if she was holding the torch upright.
What I'd like to know is why wasn't there an ADULT in the room after the first Trillion, or even the second one???
Oh ok....Re-Election!!!!
oh, how may 9/11s do we need to demolisth all those "towers"? .... just saying.