Remember thatjust like most americans who have credit records when they want to borrow money and find out how much debt they can take on, the Us Government also gets a credit rating. When it gets downgraded like this, the potential long term effect as it could push up the cost for the Us Government of borrowing money, and in turn that might long run push up taxes, it could mean less spending by the government and could mean fewer government and could mean fewer government programmes in the future. We are not there yet, but that is the underlying fear. If you look at what they are trying to address here in this downgrade, or one of the concerns they cite, it is a problem that exists both in the past but also in the future, and that is rising Us Government debt. At the moment Us Government debt stands at in excess of 30 trillion and it is expected to exceed the total size of the us economy at some point. With that in mind, with this problem in sight, and with the political disunity we ha
remember thatjust like most americans who have credit records when they want to borrow money and find out how much debt they can take on, the us government also gets a credit rating. when it gets downgraded like this, the potential long term effect as it could push up the cost for the us government of borrowing money, and in turn that might long run push up taxes, it could mean less spending by the government and could mean fewer government and could mean fewer government programmes in the future. we are not there yet, but that is the underlying fear. if you look at what they are trying to address here in this downgrade, or one of the concerns they cite, it is a problem that exists both in the past but also in the future, and that is rising us government debt. at the moment us government debt stands at in excess of $30 trillion and it is expected to exceed the total size of