The U.S debt is over $15.7 trillion, (on Sept 30, 2011 it was $14,790,340,328,557.15); interest (usury) paid out for fiscal year 2011 which ended Sept. 30 2011 was $454,393,280,417.03; interest paid out over last 30 years exceeds $9.5 trillion. Try to imagine the infrastructure that could have been repaired, the space programs lost, the medical research that could have been accomplished instead of tossing the people's money away on interest.
  When you consider the debt load of Greece or Italy and the austerity measures that they are being forced to endure to borrow money, there is a serious problem approaching. Interest rates on the debt of some Euro-zone countries are now over 7%; doubling the interest rates on U.S. debt would raise our interest to 6.5%; our interest payment would go from $454 billion per year to $908 billion per year, thereby rendering the United States, financially, little more than a glorified third world country.

  How in the hell did this country get into the hole over $15,600,000,000,000 ($15.6 Trillion): How is this even possible: What kind of drugs are they taking in Washington D.C. that would ever make $454,000,000,000 ($454 Billion) paid out for INTEREST in one year defensible: Has anybody elected to work in Washington D.C. bothered to walk around that city and read the Memorials.
  I see only a few choices, none of them good; either we are suffering the effects of malfeasance due to serious incompetence, the effects of horrendous greed abetted by some seriously stupid public officials or we have all been duped / played the fool.
  I personally want to believe that the majority of our public officials are not stupid or incompetent so the only plausible explanation left, one that is difficult to fathom, some group with an agenda is driving this country to its knees, but why?

   THEY (WHO) SEEK TO ESTABLISH SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT BASED ON THE REGIMENTATION OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS BY A HANDFUL OF INDIVIDUAL RULERS… CALL THIS A NEW ORDER.
IT IS NOT NEW AND IT IS NOT ORDER.

  To many citizens of the United States appear to be clueless as to what is written in their Constitution, but the loophole that is being exploited to wreck the United States comes straight out of the Constitution; it is paragraph 2 of article 6

Article VI

  All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
  This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
  The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

ALL TREATIES SHALL BE THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND

Amendment 2 the of Constitution

  A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

[The Second Amendment is only 27 words; that’s all! It has 4 statements separated by 3 commas. This isn’t rocket science.]

  The reason for pushing the SMALL ARMS TREATY of the United Nations is because it would supersede, remove, void, our SECOND AMENDMENT.

  Most people refuse to get off their asses and check out facts, to many people have bought into the lie about Separation of Church and State being written in the FIRST AMENDMENT

Amendment 1

  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[The First Amendment is 45 words long; that’s it! Nowhere in those 45 words is there the statement Separation of Church and State.]

"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."

  This would require most of the people to turn off the T.V.; yes, they would have to turn off the football, basketball and baseball games and actually think. Nowhere in that statement does it say to play the part of a fool: the Wolves on Wall Street have destroyed pension plans, gambled as speculators and robbed your grandchild’s future through indebtedness (they have eaten your lunch-you've been taken to the cleaners).
  Wall Street only cares about money. Is one person running a hedge fund really worth $3.4 billion a year; that is more than 70,000 enlisted personnel are paid serving in the U.S. Military for a year.
  Wall Street plunders and pillages, perverting justice, using a pen, the legal system and their millions and billions actively lobbing to change the laws of the land and the Constitution, the rest of us be damned. There appears to be little regard for the number of jobless and homeless left in their wake.
  Too many people on Wall Street are acting like kids playing a game of Masters of the Universe and treat the financial system as a game of Monopoly.

Long ago Thomas Jefferson wrote
  “I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debt, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”

  The Trickle Down theory of economics does not work. The reason being, nobody bothered to account for that most basic of human nature, greed.
  Most people when left to their basic instincts are greedy and have to be taught to share, the only way to stop greed in a capitalistic society is to tax those who refuse to share. Is there anybody really worth a billion dollars a year? Is there anyone worth 100 million dollars a year? Is there anyone worth 10 million dollars a year? NO, NO, and NO.
  I found long ago everyone is expendable, everyone is replaceable; if confused, graveyards the world over are filled with irreplaceable and unexpendable individuals.
  A simple solution would be for society to cap what individuals can earn and anything above the cap (say $1 million a year net) would be taxed at 100%. (at least until our debts are paid off).
 
  From 1940 through 1963 the highest tax rate was over 80 percent going as high as 94 percent.
 
  Because nobody wants to be taxed at 100%, those people, instead of giving their money to the government would (and have in the past) use their excess wages to build factories and hire others; right now the only incentive the greedy people have is to exploit others to maximize profits. (That is what Wall Street is all about, maximizing profits!)
  Being taxed at 100% of wages after $1,000,000 gives them (the greedy people and Special Interest Groups) incentive to invest in the future of America.
  The term "common good" has now been demonized to mean socialism. How can having all people, rich and poor contributing to make a stronger society and country be wrong.
  The men and women coming back from all of our foreign skirmishes -- Iraq and Afghanistan being the latest ones -- should have a chance at a decent job and the ability to make a decent wage.
  19,980 people could have $50,000 a year jobs if just 1 person who made a billion dollars was capped at a $1 million wage package. (The greed of HMOs, Hedge Funds, Insurance and Bank Executives and Lawyers, Lobbyists just to name a few, is destroying the American dream.)

  "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out... If people only understood the rank injustice of the money and banking system, there would be a revolution by morning."
President Andrew Jackson

  The insanity of paying $454 billion interest a year is bad enough, raising the interest rates will wipe U.S. out.

Debt with year and interest payment
Debt History from President Johnson to President Obama