Comments on: The scariest U.S. budget chart out there http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/06/22/the-scariest-u-s-budget-chart-out-there/ Politics and policy from inside Washington Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: DanFarfan http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/06/22/the-scariest-u-s-budget-chart-out-there/comment-page-1/#comment-11982 DanFarfan Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:32:24 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=7681#comment-11982 Yikes. I'm no economist but... how screwed up (software term) would the rest of the economies of the world have to be for anyone still to be buying US debt when we're anywhere near 150% of GDP much less 200% or 250% ?? In other words, wouldn't something very important necessarily have to "give" (break, collapse, implode, explode, melt) that prevents the chart from playing out that way after around 2025? Which isn't to say the chart isn't scary. It absolutely is. My frustration level over D.C. is breaching new territory. I liken this chart to Cher slapping Nick Cage, "Snap out of it!" @DanFarfan Yikes.

I’m no economist but… how screwed up (software term) would the rest of the economies of the world have to be for anyone still to be buying US debt when we’re anywhere near 150% of GDP much less 200% or 250% ??

In other words, wouldn’t something very important necessarily have to “give” (break, collapse, implode, explode, melt) that prevents the chart from playing out that way after around 2025?

Which isn’t to say the chart isn’t scary. It absolutely is. My frustration level over D.C. is breaching new territory. I liken this chart to Cher slapping Nick Cage, “Snap out of it!”

@DanFarfan

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