I really enjoy the sleep studies as I find it all so fascinating! I am an early to bed, early to rise person. I love the early mornings the best. I know people who like to stay up late - some because that's their sleep cycle, others because of 'sleep revenge.'
I'll do a bit of a repeat post from yesterday, & I'll also repeat that I point fingers at both sides (unlike many commenters on this site, as well as much of what Murphy also does w/ his bias).
Our country cannot continue building debt, increasing our interest payments on that debt. That affects the future of our country. I want this shutdown to continue, I want Trump to follow-thru on eliminating many non-essential positions. Some of those, ie, parks, can be taken up by philanthropists. Many "lost" jobs can then be filled by the private sector, unless, of course the cycle continues as described below, interest rates are forced to be raised again, private investment is damaged, etc., etc.. just keep reading, & study it yourself. Maybe apply similar figures to a charge card debt of your own. How responsible would you consider it to be if you kept charging, charging, charging, then could only pay a bit of the interest on the debt??? Would you teach your kids to do that?
I'll summarize the following here, but please pay attention for future generations, not just you: If interest payments on the national debt continue to grow, the U.S. government will face a constrained budget, forcing it to spend more on interest instead of other priorities like INFRASTRUCTURE, EDUCATION, OR DEFENSE. We don't need our federal taxpayer $ going to many of the redundant areas that are now being suppored. This will also reduce the money available for private investment, slowing economic growth and potentially increasing interest rates further, creating a cycle of higher debt and interest costs that can undermine economic stability and public confidence.
Total Gross Debt: ~$37.43 trillion
Debt Held by the Public: ~$30.12 trillion
Intragovernmental Debt: ~$7.31 trillion
The interest paid by the U.S. government on its national debt is a large and rapidly growing expense, projected to reach $952 billion in fiscal year 2025 and $1.8 trillion in 2035. This significant cost is driven by a combination of high levels of national debt and increased interest rates, making interest payments the fastest-growing portion of the federal budget. In fiscal year 2024, these net interest costs totaled $882 billion, more than spending on Medicare or national defense, and were the second-largest federal expenditure after Social Security
Impact of Interest Costs
Budget Squeeze: As interest costs grow, they take a larger share of federal revenues and overall spending, potentially limiting resources for other programs.
Growing Expense: Interest on the debt has become the second-largest expenditure category in the federal budget, exceeding spending on Medicare and national defense in 2024.
Future Projections: Projections show this trend continuing, with net interest costs expected to total $13.8 trillion over the next decade (FY 2026-2035).
FY 2024: Net interest costs were $882 billion.
FY 2025: Net interest costs are projected to be $952 billion.
FY 2035: Projected net interest costs are expected to be nearly $1.8 trillion.
In the “big beautiful bill” the 10 year savings of $1 trillion are offset by the $5 trillion in tax cuts. That is a pretty simple problem to address many of the issues you noted in your copy & paste.
Our TV is off by 9:30 pm. We then listen to ambient music and read until the lights automatically begin a 5 minute dimming cycle. As the lights dim I put in my iPods, place an eye pillow over my eyes and relax for a song or two of ambient music.
This will be an interesting shutdown, especially for the millions of people that cannot afford a 75% increase in their medical coverage. I suspect many are contract workers with no access to coverage through work. What happened to compassion and representation of all Americans in our congress?
funding bill for the federal government is Democrats' insistence that the legislation include extensions for Obamacare subsidies to address a problem that, as Paige Winfield Cunningham noted for The Washington Post, "even supporters of the Affordable Care Act fight admit is a flaw in the original law: It wasn't generous enough to make plans affordable." Having built much of their eroding reputation on the cobbled-together public-private health care coverage scheme, Democrats need to prop it up with more taxpayer money to keep it functioning.
That Affordable Care Act bill that was passed under Nancy Pelosi, that was something like 1500 pages long, that even those who signed/passed it admitted they had no time to read it, had no idea what it involved....
The ACA is part of our health care system and cannot be removed without a reasonnable replacement, something that has been promised but never delivered. According to your note, the ACA should be made even more robust, not less. The alternative is less Americans having access to affordable healthcare.
I really enjoy the sleep studies as I find it all so fascinating! I am an early to bed, early to rise person. I love the early mornings the best. I know people who like to stay up late - some because that's their sleep cycle, others because of 'sleep revenge.'
I'm like you. Word-for-word, could repeat what you wrote.
I'll do a bit of a repeat post from yesterday, & I'll also repeat that I point fingers at both sides (unlike many commenters on this site, as well as much of what Murphy also does w/ his bias).
Our country cannot continue building debt, increasing our interest payments on that debt. That affects the future of our country. I want this shutdown to continue, I want Trump to follow-thru on eliminating many non-essential positions. Some of those, ie, parks, can be taken up by philanthropists. Many "lost" jobs can then be filled by the private sector, unless, of course the cycle continues as described below, interest rates are forced to be raised again, private investment is damaged, etc., etc.. just keep reading, & study it yourself. Maybe apply similar figures to a charge card debt of your own. How responsible would you consider it to be if you kept charging, charging, charging, then could only pay a bit of the interest on the debt??? Would you teach your kids to do that?
I'll summarize the following here, but please pay attention for future generations, not just you: If interest payments on the national debt continue to grow, the U.S. government will face a constrained budget, forcing it to spend more on interest instead of other priorities like INFRASTRUCTURE, EDUCATION, OR DEFENSE. We don't need our federal taxpayer $ going to many of the redundant areas that are now being suppored. This will also reduce the money available for private investment, slowing economic growth and potentially increasing interest rates further, creating a cycle of higher debt and interest costs that can undermine economic stability and public confidence.
Total Gross Debt: ~$37.43 trillion
Debt Held by the Public: ~$30.12 trillion
Intragovernmental Debt: ~$7.31 trillion
The interest paid by the U.S. government on its national debt is a large and rapidly growing expense, projected to reach $952 billion in fiscal year 2025 and $1.8 trillion in 2035. This significant cost is driven by a combination of high levels of national debt and increased interest rates, making interest payments the fastest-growing portion of the federal budget. In fiscal year 2024, these net interest costs totaled $882 billion, more than spending on Medicare or national defense, and were the second-largest federal expenditure after Social Security
Impact of Interest Costs
Budget Squeeze: As interest costs grow, they take a larger share of federal revenues and overall spending, potentially limiting resources for other programs.
Growing Expense: Interest on the debt has become the second-largest expenditure category in the federal budget, exceeding spending on Medicare and national defense in 2024.
Future Projections: Projections show this trend continuing, with net interest costs expected to total $13.8 trillion over the next decade (FY 2026-2035).
FY 2024: Net interest costs were $882 billion.
FY 2025: Net interest costs are projected to be $952 billion.
FY 2035: Projected net interest costs are expected to be nearly $1.8 trillion.
In the “big beautiful bill” the 10 year savings of $1 trillion are offset by the $5 trillion in tax cuts. That is a pretty simple problem to address many of the issues you noted in your copy & paste.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/upshot/senate-republican-megabill.html
Our TV is off by 9:30 pm. We then listen to ambient music and read until the lights automatically begin a 5 minute dimming cycle. As the lights dim I put in my iPods, place an eye pillow over my eyes and relax for a song or two of ambient music.
This will be an interesting shutdown, especially for the millions of people that cannot afford a 75% increase in their medical coverage. I suspect many are contract workers with no access to coverage through work. What happened to compassion and representation of all Americans in our congress?
you mean increased costs due to this:
funding bill for the federal government is Democrats' insistence that the legislation include extensions for Obamacare subsidies to address a problem that, as Paige Winfield Cunningham noted for The Washington Post, "even supporters of the Affordable Care Act fight admit is a flaw in the original law: It wasn't generous enough to make plans affordable." Having built much of their eroding reputation on the cobbled-together public-private health care coverage scheme, Democrats need to prop it up with more taxpayer money to keep it functioning.
That Affordable Care Act bill that was passed under Nancy Pelosi, that was something like 1500 pages long, that even those who signed/passed it admitted they had no time to read it, had no idea what it involved....
The ACA is part of our health care system and cannot be removed without a reasonnable replacement, something that has been promised but never delivered. According to your note, the ACA should be made even more robust, not less. The alternative is less Americans having access to affordable healthcare.