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Yes, America is on suicide watch, and you don’t have to ask the reason why. It’s apparent to anyone living in the nightmare of Bidenomics. By 2010, America had become addicted to borrowing heavily from foreign debt dealers and gambled the money on questionable social programs. As of 2010, America’s indebtedness stood at just over $10 trillion.

By July 20, 2020, America’s debt addiction had swollen to $20.57 trillion. Like all addictions, given an excuse to consume more, America’s public debt ballooned to $31.41 trillion as of May 21, 2023.

Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic fueled America’s excuse to borrow more. This wicked Chinese affliction offered the Federal government myriad reasons for unprecedented destructive behaviors. Perhaps one of the worst of these excessive and occasionally ruthless actions was feeding the government’s addiction to gambling with the national economy by borrowing an additional $10 trillion. Thus, within three short years, the federal government’s grossly excessive and often hysterical borrowing addiction grew National indebtedness to a historical high and stifling $31.41 trillion or 130% of gross domestic product (GDP).

But here’s the rub. By law, the government can borrow no more than $30 trillion unless Congress votes to increase the “Debt Ceiling.” America owes $31.41 trillion, so at the very least, to avoid a catastrophic default on these loans, Congress must raise the Debt Ceiling by at least an additional $1.5 trillion. Moreover, as the Federal Reserve increases interest rates to curb Biden’s ruinous inflation, so do the interest rates paid on the Federal debt. This increase in interest payments on the debt makes it all the more likely Congress will have to elevate the Debt Ceiling again and soon.

Raising the Debt Ceiling is a game of “chicken” every few years. To overly simplify the arguments, when Congress must act to increase the Debt Ceiling, Democrats insist on additional social spending. At the same time, Republicans want less social spending and more spent on national defense. The current political and incredibly hysterical drama is true to its prior form but with two exceptions.

Heretofore, Democrats have clung to a Progressive Ideology geared toward the domestic needs of less well-to-do Americans. However, today’s Democrats are avowed Socialists committed to wealth redistribution or “Equity” across economic classes of Americans.

This means they want to increase taxes on the wealthy and borrow more to distribute to selected racial groups who they believe are victims of systemic racism and to advance cultural Wokeism. To this end, the Democrat President and Senate have put forth a Federal Fiscal Year Budget for 2024 that exceeds the current ceiling by several trillions of dollars.

By contrast, Conservative Republicans are aghast at the seemingly runaway debt. Therefore they demand a firm, not be crossed red-ceiling line and a commitment from Democrats to decelerate the rate of growth in Federal spending. Moreover, Conservatives want more on national defense and less on discretionary expenses they view as nonessential.

Unfortunately, the fact that the nation is swamped with federal debt doesn’t seem to bother many citizens. Perhaps once you start talking about trillions of dollars, it all sounds like monopoly money. The regular citizen hasn’t the time nor interest in getting their head around trillions of abstract dollars of someone else’s debt, especially since they don’t believe they borrowed the money in the first place nor experienced the benefits of this borrowed money. So instead, citizens view the Washington DC politicians, bureaucrats, and an ever-expanding, creeping, slithering snake of lobbyists as the culprits for all the spendthrift spending and ballooning national debt.

But as the political and public rhetoric over this Congressional battle to raise the Debt Ceiling and where to hold the line on additional spending heats up, every citizen, especially tax-paying citizens, owe it to their progeny to at the very least take the time to understand the issues and choices.

America is on suicide watch because of her self-inflicted debt crisis. It is an urgent crisis that we must not ignore or lightly dismiss. It’s a crisis of faith that America, like an advanced addict, needs an even bigger debt fix to see the light of day tomorrow. But anyone familiar with addiction understands that feeding the addiction never solves the underlying problem.

In this Frankly Daniel Show, you will gain a fuller understanding of the issues, mainly as seen through the eyes and propaganda of Democrat Progressives. To this end, I explore and debunk the radical Left’s arguments against the House Republicans’ attempts to rein in additional Federal spending and hammer out new road rules as Republicans seek to establish a plan for a balanced Federal budget.


The Frankly Daniel Show with Daniel Baranowski on America Out Loud Talk Radio can be heard Saturday and Sunday at 9 am ET. Listen on iHeart Radio, our world-class media player, or our free apps on AppleAndroid, or Alexa. Listen to other episodes of The Frankly Daniel Show, available on podcast.

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