re: The U.S. national debt hits $40 trillion

Cut govt by 75%. All of it.

Category. FY2025 spending. Mostly established before Trump?

Social Security
$1.575T
Yes

Medicare
$988B
Yes

Medicaid
$881B
Yes

Net interest
$970B
Primarily legacy debt

Defense discretionary
~$893B
Mostly prior laws/appropriations

Nondefense discretionary
~$960B
Mostly prior laws/appropriations

Other mandatory
~$773B
Mostly prior laws

Total
~$7.0T

Our annual budgets are not the fault of one president. This issue had been in the works for over 100 years.

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What free stuff have we taken away?

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We've simply redirected that money -- along with middle class government jobs that actually resonate economically in communities -- to shareholders with sweetheart contracts and tech billionaires.

George Bush of all people had the perfect plan to solve our long term debt problem and people killed it:

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In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets.

People rejected this.

We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive.

The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.

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The 10% fed workforce reduction is one of the few serious things djt has done.

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At a time when the major issue in America is the dwindling of middle class jobs, it's certainly "serious" that you cut government jobs where that money isn't going into a black hole but creating middle class jobs and those people are spending that money in their local communities.

If you say it's to cut the deficit that's a decent argument.

If you simply do it while then also increasing government spending on wars, sweetheart contracts for companies that make electric shock gloves and bigly contracts for tech billionaires it's not to save taxpayer dollars. It's to filter the tax money through shareholders of those corporations.

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Just to name a few condoms and aids prevention to other countries. Trans surgery and drag books to other countries. EBT has been cut by over 5.4 million plus many with it now have to buy food and not candy and sida

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We'll be debt free in no time.

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pure economic illiteracy.

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I'll take it into consideration. After seeing your numerous topics here, I realize you are an expert on pure economic illiteracy or better convoluted trickery.


For whatever it's worth, obviously not much to you or Trump/Vance, the MAGA/America First movement that put them in power wasn't about economic theories designed to consolidate more and more wealth in fewer hands, at least not openly. It was actually about middle class jobs and the cost of basic living expenses for working people.

That’s what Dennis miller said ….

Who do we owe?
frickem em … don’t pay em

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Cut govt by 75%. All of it.

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