You think we're paying for the war in Ukraine. Maybe some money is, bur lots is just being laundered to come back to the politicians.

35 trillion is not that much in todays dollars.
Your natural resources and assets as collateral will cover that amount no problem.

I don't know alot about this kind of thing but aren't we sending Ukraine weapons? thats mot money. Someone says OK this bomb is worth $XXX so here is 1000. We are paying US bomb manufactures to build them. Sure that costs money but the manufacturing $ stay here in the US. Except of course what the mfgrs import parts
So we are actually moving that tax money around here in the US. Maybe I'm wrong but thats what I always thought.
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Just think, not to get political, but I GARANTEE if Trump were in the Whitehouse, this war never would have happened and our economy would be doing much better. We'd all have more money in our pockets.

But it wasn't always that way. Back in 1920 the federal government's spending was 3% of GDP. Today it is 36% of GDP and that GDP is a great deal bigger

I tend to simplify things so that I can wrap my head around things.
The way that I interpret fiat currency is that each unit of said currency is tantamount to a given share of the intrinsic value of the economy. Essentially a coupon.
When more coupons are printed than the intrinsic value will support, those coupons are worth less.
We call it inflation when we do it. We call it by its true name of currency devaluation when others do it.

USD is backed by 11 nuclear powered aircraft carrier strike groups