Griechenland 2015 - Heldenepos oder Tragödie?
30.06.2015 um 15:35Mrd wahrscheinlich nur ein Übersetzungsfehler ^^
Fedaykin schrieb:die 50 bio für Obama Care sind aber witzig.Das kann ich auch kaum glauben, scheint mir viel zu viel. Es ist ja nicht so, dass die Versicherten nichts zahlen müssen.
It's those medium- and long-term debt problems that also worry economics professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff, who served as a senior economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He says the national debt, which the U.S. Treasury has accounted at about $14 trillion, is just the tip of the iceberg.Aber keine Ahnung was die Quelle taugt.
"We have all these unofficial debts that are massive compared to the official debt," Kotlikoff tells David Greene, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered. "We're focused just on the official debt, so we're trying to balance the wrong books."
Kotlikoff explains that America's "unofficial" payment obligations — like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits — jack up the debt figure substantially.
"If you add up all the promises that have been made for spending obligations, including defense expenditures, and you subtract all the taxes that we expect to collect, the difference is $211 trillion. That's the fiscal gap," he says. "That's our true indebtedness."
schmitz schrieb:Als totale Staatsverschuldung 220 Milliarden Dollar eine ungeheure Summe zu nennen, wirkt heute zutage und gerade in Bezug auf die USA aber eher lächerlich. Könnten es nicht auch echte Billionen sein?KLar, 4x die ganze Welt. Klingt Glaubwürdig.