US government debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015

Totally unsustainable. Prepare for collapse.

– US: $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP (Chart of Day)

Doomed!

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WASHINGTON June 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to Congress.

The report that was sent to lawmakers Friday night with no fanfare said the ratio of debt to the gross domestic product would rise to 102 percent by 2015 from 93 percent this year.

“The president’s economic experts say a 1 percent increase in GDP can create almost 1 million jobs, and that 1 percent is what experts think we are losing because of the debt’s massive drag on our economy,” said Republican Representative Dave Camp, who publicized the report.

He was referring to recent testimony by University of Maryland Professor Carmen Reinhart to the bipartisan fiscal commission, which was created by President Barack Obama to recommend ways to reduce the deficit, which said debt topping 90 percent of GDP could slow economic growth.

The U.S. debt has grown rapidly with the economic downturn and government spending for the Wall Street bailout, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the economic stimulus. The rising debt is contributing to voter unrest ahead of the November congressional elections in which Republicans hope to regain control of Congress.

The total U.S. debt includes obligations to the Social Security retirement program and other government trust funds. The amount of debt held by investors, which include China and other countries as well as individuals and pension funds, will rise to an estimated $9.1 trillion this year from $7.5 trillion last year.

By 2015 the net public debt will rise to an estimated $14 trillion, with a ratio to GDP of 73 percent, the Treasury report said. (Reporting by Donna Smith; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

WASHINGTON
Tue Jun 8, 2010 6:19pm EDT

Source: Reuters

The US is totally bankrupt:

– US posts 19th straight monthly budget deficit; April deficit nearly four times higher than in 2009

– Record: National Debt Up $2 Trillion in Just 421 Days on Obama’s Watch

– US budget deficit hits record $221bn, the largest monthly deficit in history

– Obama Administration Using Accounting Gimmicks That Would Make Enron ‘Blush,’ Says Republican Lawmaker

– Obama Signs Law Raising Public Debt Limit from $12.4 Trillion to $14.3 Trillion

– Rep. Alan Grayson: ‘20 Percent Of Our Accumulated Wealth Over The Course Of 2 Centuries Gone in 18 months!’

– MSNBC Exposes President Obama’s lies: FED GAVE Banks Access to 23.7 TRILLION DOLLARS NOT $700 Billion!

– America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship! (MUST-READ!)

– Senate Proposes Increasing US Debt Limit to $14.3 Trillion: “If Congress does not enact this legislation, and soon, then the Treasury would default on its debt for the first time in history,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus

– US: Unfunded Benefits Dig States’ $3 Trillion Hole

– Illinois enters a state of insolvency: ‘We’re close to de facto bankruptcy, if not de jure bankruptcy.’

– Former Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis: Larry Summers, Robert Rubin: Will The Harvard Shadow Elite Bankrupt The University And The Country?

– Experts: Dollar Crisis Looms if US Doesn’t Curb Debt

– Marc Faber on Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis: Next Countries to Default are the US, Japan and the ‘PIIGS’

– Nobel Peace Laureate Obama seeks additional $33 billion for wars, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department

– The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis

– US slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels

– PIMCO’S Bill Gross: ‘Let’s Get Fisical’ (… or why the US will not make it.)

– Peter Schiff on Fast Money: ‘America is broke’; ‘The Fed created a currency crisis’; ‘Dollar to collapse 50-70% or more’

– US: Public Pensions Face $2 Trillion Deficit

– U.S. Avoids Technical Default By Three Days

– The US Government Is Preparing For Collapse: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied

– US losses will top $400 billion on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

– US: More Ammo For The Treasury Bazooka

– We’re Screwed! Hyperinflation like in the Weimar Republic; Great Depression worse than in the 1930s

– US Congress: Banksters Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank

– US: Trillions Of Troubles Ahead

– Chinese central banker Zhu Min: ‘The world does not have so much money to buy more US Treasuries.’

– US National Debt Tops Debt Limit

– John Williams of Shadowstats: Prepare For The Hyperinflationary Great Depression

– Obama’s Big Sellout (Rolling Stone Magazine)

– Obama administration to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion

–  Afghanistan Surge to Cost At Least $40 Billion, That Is $1.333.333 For One US Soldier Per Year

– Rep. Brad Sherman: Geithner rejects $1 trillion limit on bailout power (Section 1204 is unlimited in dollar amount!)