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[–] 196 points 4 months ago (8 children)

NEVER let Republicans pretend to care about "fiscal responsibility" ever again.

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  • [–] 127 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    he bankrupted multiple casinos, why not multiple countries?

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  • [–] 114 points 4 months ago (6 children)
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    [–] 50 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I love how doge cut funding to sooooo many things and yet the debt is higher than ever. They cut USAID. they kicked people off welfare. They cut people off Medicaid etc. and yet the debt is higher than ever. Fuck you dumpy and co

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Doge delayed my dad's cancer screening from being processed and he died.

    He was in the emergency room in early stage four when they called him to say they finally looked at the scans. If he'd received treatment when the cancer was first detected he would have had a pretty good shot at survival.

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    He's bankrupting the country like he bankrupted all his other businesses.

    Guys, it'll trickle down any second now.

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    [–] 28 points 4 months ago

    When you're borrowing money to service the debt, things can get spicy

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (16 children)

    How did Biden let this happen?

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    HOW is this Possible? We ELIMINATED all of my VA Benefits, my Child's Education and School Lunch, SNAP Benefits, Healthcare and Infrastructure Funding! SURELY that gives us Enough Money for Billionaire Tax Breaks and Wars?

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    [–] 26 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    The debt is high as balls of course, but really there is no specific significance to reaching the level of the GDP of one year. You could just as well say it has reached 400% of the quarterly GDP or 33% of the three year GDP.

    Personally I'm more worried about concrete numbers like the cost of servicing the debt yearly. That has reached 17% of your yearly budget by now.

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    [–] 20 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    New Mission Objective: SURVIVE

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    [–] 19 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Its trumps debt. Every cent of it should come from his accounts

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Did you even say thank you?

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    [+] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I am so sick of the fiscally irresponsible Demonrats running up our national debt. If only they could follow the fiscally conservative Republisaint's example and cut all those pesky welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare.

    Imagine if we took all that wasted money and gave it to wealthy to manage. Trickledown only works if we send a tidal wave of money upwards. So much money that some invariably trickles down to the undeserving poors.

    We just have to switch to a regressive national 10% sales tax (with exceptions for large ticket item purchases that only wealthy people can make of course) we could have our Demonrat debt problem solved within a couple of years.

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    [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    "The Art of the Steal" now available in all banks of the US of A.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    Curious to see if it's gonna impact the USA credit ratings

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    It's simple, really. Trump has foreseen all of the economic mistakes the next democrat president will make and is already fixing them, before they even happen. Some of you should be a little more grateful.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    This is intentional. Crash the economy, then use that as an excuse to shutter every social program and public good. In ride the corporations on their white horse to offer us those same services, for a price. Can't afford the new prices for using the highway, fire protection, your kid's school? No problem, just sign here and your great-grandkids will still be down your debt.

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    [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I was going to make some joke, but instead I’m just going to talk about being heartbroken.

    Because if, by some miracle, we get more anti-establishment elected officials in 2028, their policies would most assuredly destroy the country. Not because those policies are bad, but because the safety nets that would have absorbed the market shock were destroyed by this administration.

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    [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The entire notion that an entity which possesses the sole authority to issue the currency in which its budgets and accounts are denominated, can in any way be legitimately in a level of ‘debt’ it in any way could be mistaken as problematic, is fundamentally detached from reality.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The illusion of scarcity needs to be maintained. Dollars are only worth something because the entire world believes they're worth trading for good and services. The only reason the U.S. government collects taxes and "borrows" money is to maintain the illusion.

    If the US Government just conjured up trillions of dollars to pay it's debts, the world economy would collapse. So the Federal Reserve has to do it slowly via Quantitative Easing.

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago
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