Originally <a href='https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=27324621'>posted</a> on 11/02/2017:

It's also crazy how the debt will grow but it always will.

Those that want to eliminate the national debt should realize that at this point every dollar out there was created when it was borrowed.

To eliminate the debt would mean to take the money out of the system.

Obviously controlling those interest payments is a thing for the here and now, but in the end the bankers will win. Elections have been bought and people have died to keep the bankers winning.

The debt will go up, more money will be lent to pay for it, thus increasing the debt and dollars out there. Blame entitlements, blame what expense you will, but debate about raising the debt ceiling when it comes up always comes down to one answer, raise it or shut the government down.

So they raise it.

It's our way of life and we couldn't live it any other way. It's true for all countries with a central bank and every other central bank before the Fed on the US continent went bankrupt, usually with rampant inflation.

The Federal Reserve has a stated goal to inflate the dollar, and keep that inflation at a certain percent.

It's our way of life.