It's Friday and today that means Q&A. Welcome to Radical Personal Finance The Show dedicated to providing you with knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need, a little rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

Today it's Friday, Q&A.

We're going to begin with a short discussion of politics as it relates to the fiscal reality

of the United States.

I thought it was interesting to watch the Democratic presidential debates, and a brief comment on that.

Also with a question on investing and then from there we go to the phones and see what shows up.

I hope that you are in line for an excellent weekend, a weekend, it'll be a holiday weekend

next week in the United States, I know that's a big deal for many people.

Hope you have wonderful plans in store for yourself. Each Friday whenever I can

arrange it I do a live Q and a show and sometimes that means I take live call-ins.

Well generally that's what a live-Q and a show. Sometimes though, I take questions that have been written in

and sometimes live callers and today

it's going to be a mix, a little bit of current events,

and a little bit of all of the above.

We begin today with a quick comment on the presidential debates that I watched this last week,

the Democratic candidate debates.

Don't worry, not going to get too deep into the politics. I'm simply going to mention a couple of things

as specifically as it relates to money, especially to the future of the finances of these United States.

As long time listeners know, I have been concerned for some time over the burgeoning government

debt that we see in the United States

running basically a little under a trillion dollar deficit and this is completely

unprecedented. It's not that a trillion dollar deficit is in and of itself unprecedented, but it's unprecedented to be running a trillion dollar deficit in a time of relative prosperity, where markets are generally doing well, employment is generally doing well, etc.

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