As empires collapse, the government employees/legislators begin to loot the treasury in preparation for the coming hard times. I believe that we are there. In support of this, I offer the increasingly blatant examples of Congress making hundreds of millions, the Bidens selling access, this morning’s story about CBP agents on the take, and someone in the Arkansas Department of Education creating a fake $66 million contract that, according to the vendor, doesn’t exist.
I have been posting on this since 2009, nearly since this blog began.
- Reagan borrowed his first trillion in 6 years
- George HW Bush borrowed his first trillion in 3 years, and he increased the National debt by 170% in four years.
- It took President Clinton 3 and a half years to borrow his first trillion dollars. All told, he borrowed $1.2 trillion in his first term, and $600 billion in his second. He increased the national debt by 140% in eight years.
- President George W Bush borrowed his first trillion dollars in two and a half years. He borrowed his second trillion a year and a half later. Another two years, another $1 trillion. All told, President Bush borrowed $5 trillion in 8 years, increasing the national debt by 187%.
- Obama borrowed his first trillion in 13 months.
- Trump borrowed his first trillion in just over 7 months. In all, he borrowed about $8 trillion in four years.
- Biden has borrowed $6 trillion in the three and a half years he has been in the Oval office. Now we are borrowing a trillion dollars every 5 and a half months.
The US treasury has borrowed $24 trillion in the past 15 years.