Dear Reader, 

I have a number for you. Sixteen trillion.

That’s a big number. So big it’s almost meaningless. So let me put it in terms you can understand.

That’s the bill the U.S. government just handed you. It’s the interest payment on their credit card. And you are going to pay for it.

Every penny.

The Congressional Budget Office just released their latest report. It’s a horror show. 

They project that over the next 10 years, the U.S. government will spend $16 trillion just on interest payments for the national debt.

Let me be clear. That’s not paying down the debt. That’s just the interest. The juice. The vig.

It’s $16 trillion in your tax dollars that will buy you nothing. No roads. No schools. No military. Nothing. 

It’s money set on fire to pay for the promises politicians made decades ago.

My poor dad, the academic, would read a report like this and wring his hands. He’d say, “We need to elect better leaders!” He trusted the system. 

He believed in the government. He died broke.

My rich dad would laugh. He’d say, “What did you expect? The government is the biggest debtor in the world. 

And debtors always have a plan to screw their creditors.”

And who is the creditor? You are.

They call it the “national debt.” That’s a lie. It’s not the nation’s debt. It’s your debt.

It’s a bill that will be paid by you, your children, and your grandchildren. How? Through taxes and inflation.

Taxes are obvious. They will go up. They have to. But that’s not the real story. 

The real story is inflation.

Inflation is the silent tax. It’s the government’s favorite way to pay its bills. They can’t tax you enough to cover the $16 trillion. 

So they will print the money. And every time they print a new dollar, the dollars in your savings account become worth less.

It’s a slow, invisible theft of your wealth. And it’s happening right now.

The government is spending $7 trillion this year. They only take in about $5.6 trillion in taxes. 

That’s a $1.9 trillion deficit. By 2036, the deficit will be over $3 trillion. Every single year.

How do they fill that gap? They print money. They devalue your savings. They steal your future.

My rich dad taught me that there are two kinds of debt: good debt and bad debt.

Good debt is debt you use to buy an asset that puts money in your pocket. A rental property. A business. An oil well. You use other people’s money to get rich.

Bad debt is debt you use to buy liabilities. A fancy car. A vacation. A new TV. Things that take money out of your pocket.

The U.S. government is the world champion of bad debt. 

That $16 trillion in interest? It’s the interest on decades of bad debt. Decades of funding wars, welfare programs, and promises they could never afford.

It’s like paying the interest on a credit card you used for a party you threw 20 years ago. The party is over. The fun is gone. But the bill remains.

And here’s the scariest part. The CBO’s numbers are optimistic. They assume inflation will go down.

They assume interest rates will fall. What if they’re wrong? What if inflation stays high? What if interest rates go up?

Then $16 trillion will look like a fond memory. The numbers will become truly astronomical. The house of cards will collapse.

So what do you do? You can’t stop it. You can’t vote it away. 

Both parties are addicted to spending. They will never stop.

You have to save yourself. You have to build your own personal lifeboat.

How? You stop playing their game. You stop saving their fake, paper money. You stop being the government’s creditor.

You start thinking like my rich dad. You start acquiring real assets. Assets that the government can’t print. Assets that hold their value when the currency is destroyed.

Gold. Silver. Bitcoin. Real estate. Assets that are a hedge against government incompetence and corruption.

The government is bankrupt. It’s a mathematical certainty. The only question is when the final collapse will happen.

Don’t go down with the ship. The $16 trillion bill is in the mail. You can either pay it with your savings, your labor, and your future.

 Or you can get out of the system and protect yourself.

The choice is yours.

Robert Kiyosaki

Editor, Money Power and Profit

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