The Way Out Is Through

manicchill:

Breakdown of the holders of U.S. debt:

• Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent)
• Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1 percent)
• Taiwan: $153.4 billion (1.1 percent)
• Brazil: $211.4 billion (1.5 percent)
• Oil exporting countries: $229.8 billion (1.6 percent)
• Mutual funds: $300.5 billion (2 percent)
• Commercial banks: $301.8 billion (2.1 percent)
• State, local and federal retirement funds: $320.9 billion (2.2 percent)
• Money market mutual funds: $337.7 billion (2.4 percent)
• United Kingdom: $346.5 billion (2.4 percent)
• Private pension funds: $504.7 billion (3.5 percent)
• State and local governments: $506.1 billion (3.5 percent)
• Japan: $912.4 billion (6.4 percent)
• U.S. households: $959.4 billion (6.6 percent)
• China: $1.16 trillion (8 percent)
• The U.S. Treasury: $1.63 trillion (11.3 percent)
• Social Security trust fund: $2.67 trillion (19 percent)

The totals?

Foreign-owned debt: ~$4.5 trillion
American-owned debt: ~$9.8 trillion

Despite what many politicians/pundits would have you believe, the U.S. government owes Americans more than double what it owes the rest of the world….combined.

Suck it, Facebook.

mylifeasafeminista:

Hundreds and thousands of Iraqi & Afghan civilians have died during the American invasion which was supposedly going to “instill democracy” and “save the women.” Neither of these goals have been accomplished; this has simply proven itself to be another manifestation of U.S. imperialism and…