US National Debt 2020 (so far)
US National Debt 2020 as of 8/31/2020:
| Date | Dollar Amount | Annual Inc | President | |
|-------------|---------------------|------------------------|----------|
| 09/30/2000 | $5,674,178,209,88 | | Clinton | |
| 09/30/2001 | $5,807,463,412,200 | 102.35% | Bush | |
| 09/30/2002 | $6,228,235,965,597 | 107.25% | Bush | 9-11 |
| 09/30/2003 | $6,783,231,062,744 | 108.91% | Bush | 9-11 |
| 09/30/2004 | $7,379,052,696,330 | 108.78% | Bush | 9-11 |
| 09/30/2005 | $7,932,709,661,724 | 107.50% | Bush | |
| 09/30/2006 | $8,506,973,899,215 | 107.24% | Bush | |
| 09/30/2007 | $9,007,653,372,262 | 105.89% | Bush | |
| 09/30/2008 | $10,024,724,896,913 | 111.29% | Bush | Subprime |
| 09/30/2009 | $11,909,829,003,512 | 118.80% | Obama | Subprime |
| 09/30/2010 | $13,561,623,030,892 | 113.87% | Obama | Subprime |
| 09/30/2011 | $14,790,340,328,557 | 109.06% | Obama | |
| 09/30/2012 | $16,066,241,407,386 | 108.63% | Obama | |
| 09/30/2013 | $16,738,183,526,697 | 104.18% | Obama | |
| 09/30/2014 | $17,824,071,380,734 | 106.49% | Obama | |
| 09/30/2015 | $18,150,617,666,484 | 101.83% | Obama | |
| 09/30/2016 | $19,573,444,713,937 | 107.84% | Obama | |
| 09/30/2017 | $20,244,900,016,054 | 103.43% | Trump | |
| 09/30/2018 | $21,516,058,183,180 | 106.28% | Trump | |
| 09/30/2019 | $22,719,401,753,434 | 105.59% | Trump | |
| 08/31/2020* | $26,728,836,000,000 | 117.65% | Trump | COVID-19 |- https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/2020/opds082020.prn
2019 ACA Plan Up 12.4% From Last Year
Just got the new ACA insurance quotes for 2019. 12.4% increase from last year.
4.38x more money and zero better options. There is nothing affordable about these plans.
My real monthly rates:
| 2014 | $148 | |
| 2015 | $321 | |
| 2016 | $365 | |
| 2017 | $419 | Bronze Plan |
| 2018 | $574 | Bronze Plan |
| 2019 | $645 | Bronze Plan |
Thank you former President Obama and all our representatives. Nice job.
I have ZERO medical issues, besides being slightly overweight and wearing glasses. Vision and dental are NOT included in these plans.
ZERO medications besides the very occasional Sudafed for sniffles.
Security vs Freedom
Saw this on a forum by an AC today:
I think that my freedom is more important than my security.
I prefer to live in a free but insecure world than in a perfectly safe but not free world.
When govts try for a perfectly safe world, they need to be reminded of this stance.
Also, New Zealand has a law that fines someone refusing to unlock their electronics at the border with NZD$5,000. The claim is that they must have a good reason to demand access, but that is a little late. The article also said that the device would be in “airplane mode” for the searches.
37% ACA (Obamacare) increase in 2018! 1
Update for 2018. 37% higher than in 2017!!! 387% higher than I paid in 2014 plus the deductible is much higher and the coverage is much worse.
3.87x more money and zero better options. No question to me why the democrats didn’t win the last presidential election. Their decisions on this are costing me thousands more yearly and I’m on the cheapest plan available in my state.
My real monthly rates:
| 2014 | $148 | |
| 2015 | $321 | |
| 2016 | $365 | |
| 2017 | $419 | Bronze Plan |
| 2018 | $574 | Bronze Plan |
Thank you former President Obama and all our representatives. Nice job.
I have ZERO medical issues, besides being slightly overweight and wearing glasses.
ZERO medications besides the very occasional Sudafed for sniffles.
14.8% Obama-Care Rate Increases in 2017!
Update for 2017. Just signed up for a new plan. My current provider is not offering any plans here anymore. 14.8% increase over 2016! 281% higher than I paid in 2014 plus the deductible is much higher and the coverage is much worse. Almost 3x more money and zero better options. No question to me why the democrats didn’t win the last presidential election. Their decisions on this are costing me thousands more yearly.
2016 Update: Just received the insurance paperwork for 2016 and my Hi-Deductible plan costs are increasing 13.75%!
In 2015, I was forced into a plan that raised the deductible 50% and costs 217% more than it cost in 2014.
My real monthly rates:
| 2014 | $148 |
| 2015 | $321 |
| 2016 | $365 |
| 2017 | $419 |
Thank you President Obama. Nice job.
Why You Should Care About Phone Metadata
Saw this over at Schneier’s Security site.
How your phone tracks your every move
His phone was leaving traces about 3x an hour and it wasn’t just GPS coordinates.
It is an ABC (Australian) report. They asked normal people to look at some metadata to figure out what they could know about a person. Bingo!
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
For everyone who doesn’t have an issue with this – fine. Send me all your emails, texts, tweets, G+ posts, FB posts, all contacts in every device you own, a list of everything you watch on TV, through Netflix, popcorn, all the torrents and photos from the last 6 months. After all, you don’t have anything to hide. Oh – and I don’t want just the nice, sanitized stuff. Send it all.
After all, you have nothing to hide.
Here’s what the public found in his metadata.
His final thoughts:
Having strangers poring over your data can be an unnerving experience but whether we’re aware of it or not that’s increasingly the case in the world we live in.
Feeling Tracked Online?
You should. Do some simple things to make it harder AND less profitable.
Why worry? After all, you aren’t doing anything wrong or are you?
Who Is Watching?
Resumes of people in the intelligence community and some tools for analysis and counting. Created from public information sources – like linkedIn, facebook, and google searches.
USAF C-17 Aid Flight to Nepal 1
I am a pilot that was on the first American C-17 aid flight into Nepal. This is what we brought.
Interesting cargo from Fairfax, VA.
Redit Discussion about this trip.
I have no issue as a US Taxpayer seeing our money spent in this way. Much better to be helping others, than the other things our DoD is known to be doing.
CIA Operational Security Failures
Do you like Tom Clancy novels? Here’s a real-life story where the spies failed.
Operational Security, OPSEC, is hard. Even for the CIA.
Presentation by Matthew Cole of NBC News given at the Blackhat conference in 2013.
Seems that the metadata is more important than the actual conversation for cell phones. 25 minutes watching this video will make it clear even to non-technical people why we need to end US, state and local government spying of US citizens by the use of electronic means and license plate tracking.
Metadata alone was used by Italian authorities to determine about 18 US spies with 30 phones who snatched a suspect (Italian citizen) off the street in Milan in 2003. That person showed up about 14 months later in Egypt.
Phone metadata discovered this using a tool called “Analysts Notebook.”
