Michael Snyder shows how large the US Government has become and why reeling it in would mean collapse

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Important Takeaways:

  • The United States Has The Biggest Government In The History Of The World By A Very Wide Margin
  • How does it feel to have the largest government that the planet has ever seen? When I was growing up, I was taught that we had a capitalist system and that we had a limited federal government.  Of course, neither of those things has been true for a very long time.  Today, the United States has the biggest government in the history of the world, and it gets even bigger with each passing year.  Running that gigantic government requires more money than we actually have, and so we are going into staggering amounts of debt.  But there is no way that our politicians will ever agree to reduce the size of the federal government to an appropriate size.  So we are stuck with this system until the day when it finally collapses.
  • Approximately 3 million people work directly for the federal government.
  • The federal government spent 6.13 trillion dollars in 2023. That figure is larger than the GDP of every nation on the entire planet except for the U.S. and China.
  • -More than 70 million Americans are on Social Security.
  • -More than 65 million Americans are on Medicare.
  • -More than 81 million Americans are on Medicaid.
  • -More than 41 million Americans are on food stamps.
  • Of course there are many more programs that hand out money to the population on a regular basis.
  • We have reached a stage where most U.S. households are at least partially dependent on the federal government.
  • We very much prefer not to call ourselves “socialists”, but that is precisely what we are. Sadly, if we attempted to go back to the way things were 100 years ago, most Americans would not know how to survive.
  • Since 1980, the size of the U.S. national debt has gone from 1 trillion dollars to 34 trillion dollars.
  • In fact, the size of the federal deficit in December was 52 percent larger than for the same month a year earlier…
    • The U.S. federal government posted a December deficit of $129 billion, up $44 billion or 52% from a year earlier as outlays rose while receipts fell from December 2022 levels that were swelled by pandemic-deferred tax payments, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday.
    • The Treasury said that outlays for December rose 3% to $559 billion, a December record, partly as a result of higher Social Security outlays and interest on the public debt. Receipts for the month fell 6% to $429 billion.
  • But for the moment, the talking heads on television continue to tell everyone that our leaders know exactly what they are doing, and millions of people actually believe that nonsense.

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UFO Disclosure: Just a distraction? US prepares to announce its extraterrestrial findings

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Important Takeaways:

  • Is the US government preparing to announce aliens? This is the Senate’s proposed UFO ‘controlled disclosure plan’ and how it would work
  • The Senate passed an Act that would require disclosure of UFO evidence
  • Step One: The President forms the Review Board
    • Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, has teamed up with Senator Mike Rounds, a Republican, in leading an effort to force the disclosure of information relating to what the government officially calls ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena.’
    • Their proposal is modeled after a 1992 US law spelling out the handling of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy.
    • The document continues to explain that the president can postpone disclosure of certain records if they are identified as harm ‘to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations.’
  • Step 2: Governments must handover UAP records
    • The Act states government offices have 300 days after the date of enactment to hand over records to the Review Board.
    • These offices include the president, the Department of Defense, all military branches, the Department of Energy, the Director of National Intelligence, the Library of Congress and more.
    • The head of each office is required to print a copy of each physical record and create a digital copy that will be sent to the Review Board.
    • The Act establishes that the federal government would have ’eminent domain’ over any recovered technologies of unknown origin and that private individuals or entities may control any biological evidence of ‘non-human intelligence.’
  • Step 3: Review Board investigates the evidence
    • The nine-person board will have 180 days to review each case about UAPs.
    • This group must have at least one national security officer, foreign service official, scientist or engineer, economist, professional historian and sociologist.
    • The Review Board’s goals are to determine if a recorder constitutes as an unidentified anomalous phenomena record and whether an unidentified anomalous phenomena record or particular information in a record qualifies for postponement of disclosure.
    • These individuals also have the power to subpoena citizens for their testimony, records and other information relevant to the case.
  • Step 4: Review Board publishes its findings
    • Senator Rounds said: ‘Our goal is to assure credibility with regard to any investigation or record keeping of materials associated with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).
    • David Grusch – a former high-ranking intelligence official – was one of three military whistleblowers who testified under oath that they had firsthand encounters or knowledge about secret government programs involving technology that is ‘non-human.’
    • He claimed that the US has been in possession of UFOs since ‘the 1930s’ and has been secretly back-engineering them and carrying out a public disinformation campaign to prevent the details from leaking publicly.
    • Grusch was sworn in on July 26, along with Ryan Graves, an esteemed former pilot, and Navy veteran fighter pilot Commander David Fravor, who witnessed the 2004 ‘Tic Tac’ UFO
    • The men stated that the US had run a top-secret UFO retrieval program for decades and claimed the ‘Vatican was involved’ in the first-ever UFO crash.
    • Grusch said last month that the first recovery of a UFO was in Magenta, Italy, in 1933, and Mussolini’s Italian government held it until 1944 through 1945 when Pope Pius XII tipped America off about it.

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