They’re only talking about the budget deficit there. They aren’t including the unfunded liabilities of $75tn – $100tn over the next 75 years, which is entirely medicare and SS (i.e. not discretional) spending. To cover the costs of these programmes requires improving the current budget by $1.5tn p.a. either by added revenue or reduced spending. That means that in addition to the ~$2tn deficit for this year the government needs to find another $1.5tn just to stand still.

To put this in perspective, your revenues are $5tn, and your expenses are $7tn. You need to increase revenues by 70%, or decrease expenses by 50%, or a combo of the two. None of which are possible. There is no way out. Except:

Print baby, print. And hence the need for the $4tn increase in the debt ceiling.

Why it needs Moody’s to alert the bond market to that I don’t know.

• Have Davos elites been defeated? Is he asking us? Be nice if he could stay on track, not go on a long history lesson of the last million years. Like bait and switch. Turned into Ukraine, feud, WW11 all past tense said before  and other stuff dragging on not getting a answer.  Yes or no and why but guess using comparisons for cues and not sure. Why I’m posting it? Maybe there’s a clue I missed when I fell asleep waiting for him to come back to Davos. Kidding but not missing a cue. Seems more than a diversion.

Maya I don’t know if you’ll need this since you can walk so well and could move to jogging but it’s good exercise without having to have a big bike and In away a light leg press. A old saying, let your weaknesses become your strengths. Easier said then done sometimes.

It’s on Amazon for 30.00 There’s a bunch of different kinds so read the reviews below them.

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Shouldn’t hurt the gold market. Then again, it didn’t help us the last time we were downgraded in 2011 and Fitch did it in 2023. Although it is a bit different gold market these days. Might be why gold popped back above $3200 AH and the shares didn’t get smacked yesterday too much.

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Yeah some parents can do that. The best they can do if they see their interests encourage them if realistic and safe. But even so sometimes kids can do it themselves. Wanna be like Mike who’s what 6 foot 10 or something, and their out there playing basketball everyday but only reach 5 foot ten and their dreams are crushed. Parents should have them focus on education too during that time plus any other interests. Focus on what they can do, kids are resilient just helps them if someone cares.

Still disappointments and failure can build character and can recover and learn from it. What they’re doing to them they can never recover.

It’s not just that going on either. Whites are this and that blacks are victims, both are emotionally abusive. Like where did they get their play book from Charles Manson?

Oh the worst ones are not the well meaning or alter ego it’s the can’t do ones are the worst. Say the kid loves soccer and the parents hates it. It’s not just winning that counts, they just love to play.  Self centered type parent. Their A holes.

Try to warm up first and do stretch ones first. If there’s music you like put it on. Split them up in sets like sets of 5 each till you can do 10 each. You can take protein with exercise. I hope he gave you light weight bearing not too heavy at first. Reason is it helps strengthen the bones too. They have these pedal machines I found on Amazon. Portable without a bike and can exercise while sitting down in front of the computer. I got one for one of my grandsons because the doctors were going to rush and do surgery on his legs but after tests they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. I told my daughter in law I think I know what was wrong. He has independent study. He gets his work done fast then does interactive video games. Now he’s learning the stock market. Too much hours sitting . They can get clots that way too. Now he uses it when on the computer, problem solved. It has different resistance levels. There’s ones as low as in 30 dollars. Hope she passed that to the doctor as more and more are pulling kids out of public schools especially since Covid.

You don’t have to do them every day you can do them 3/4 days a week but maybe try to do stretching exercises when you get up. Muscles can start to atrophy pretty fast so if not active passive range of motion. Your walking well now and have years to go, you don’t have to turn into muscle man all at once. Lol

It’s the parents, telling their children from an early age that they can be anything they want to be. Whilst the parents might only mean they can be a rock star, olympic champion, fighter pilot, astronaut or whatever, which is patently complete rubbish and just setting the kids up to experience failure and confusion, it’s not a big step to “I can be a boy” especially when she’s surrounded by all the weirdos you mention.

You don’t build resilient kids with affirmative action and false hopes. Sure, let them dream, but keep them based in realism.

Began the exercise sets my Physical Terrorist assigned me.  Various leg lifts and stretches.  I’m walking OK, but ye gads… some of these muscles I’m trying to move just don’t work yet!  Old ‘hippies’ telling me to ‘be sure you do your PT!’   Yep… no pain, no gain.  But it is amazingly exhausting.  He sure knows how to target the weak points.  (sigh!)

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