re: Breakdown of to whom the US owes its $22T debt

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Republicans in 2015:
national debt is the single greatest threat to this country and will cause blood to run in the streets

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Republicans in 2019:
national debt is essentially irrelevant

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If you owe the bank $1 million then the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100 billion then you own the bank

If you also back up the above with the most powerful military machine to ever grace the planet then your national debt is essentially irrelevant

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Pretty much.

While not justifying it by any means, and agree we should work to reduce it, we owe ourselves 71.1% of that debt ($15.642 trillion) and, guess what, we aren't about to call it in on ourselves.

Also, except for China, the remaining major holders of our debt rely on our swinging dick military to protect them from Russia and China, so they're not about to frick around either.

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If you also back up the above with the most powerful military machine to ever grace the planet then your national debt is essentially irrelevant.

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You clearly don't understand how the credit/debt market works.

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If you also back up the above with the most powerful military machine to ever grace the planet then your national debt is essentially irrelevant.

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I'm with you.

I have completely 100% given up caring about the national debt. I just gotta figure out how to drop a few more ones and zeros on my ledgers. Ain't nothing but a thang.