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

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Neither Republicans or democrats

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I really wish people would start to realize that the US government has evolved to the point these parties really don't mean anything and that the power is in the hand of the lobbyist and that there is only one country in the world allowed to lobby the US government and that is Israel.

The only thing elections do is determine which party gets to benefit the most because power is valuable (possibly more valuable than money?) and that if people really wanted to make a difference, they will stop voting. Why stop voting? Because then that makes things unpredictable and there is nothing those running elections hate more than anything is the unknown so if people stop voting then both parties will do things to appeal to the voters again because everyone want to get this base that has stopped participating in elections, but in any given election the people can decide to start voting in droves again. So creating less predictable elections will get parties to try to appeal to the people again.

But evidently people who don't vote is the problem, yet voting has gotten this country in debt $40 trillion

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So, you're saying our problem before Trump took office for his second term was too many good middle class jobs?

I'm sorry but your economic arguments read like those syndicated editorials in small town newspapers where a rich old guy explains to the dumb workers why companies cutting their benefits to pay out more to their shareholders is ultimately better for them.

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Yes, I am flat out saying it’s bad for the economy if work that could be done by one person is done by 2 people. I am flat out saying that featherbedding is bad.

The economic goal of any nation, as of any individual, is to get the greatest results with the least effort. The whole economic progress of mankind has consisted in getting more production with the same labor.

Trump is essentially a 1980s Democrat

Trump is doing such a good job bringing the deficit down and keeping us out of war.

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What free stuff have we taken away?


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 spent more than all that stuff cost for years on the war already.

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If sleepy Joe were still president those numbers would be even worse. Just imagine the debt with all the free crap democrats want and don't forget about all the u said fraud

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See this is the fricking problem. We don’t have to pretend to know how we got here. There is proof - look at the numbers. I swear to god future Americans will look back at this time and wonder what the hell was wrong with 1/3 of the voters how could we have been so stupid.

You could cut all govt spending by 75% and still do the necessary things govt is meant to do.

Both parties are to blame.

2008 to 2016 it went in to hyper-drive; from $10 Trillion in 2008 to $20 Trillion by 2016. I hope no one will be able to double it again...but they keep trying.

During that time (2010-ish) republicans got their $2 Trillion Bush-era tax cut extension, but they had to trade Obama for gays in the military (ending DADT). The negotiation and agreement actually took place in the same week, but history does not exactly point that trade out...LOL. There is a whole list of deals like that.

and...no other country has ever take care of the world like we do!

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It’s only going to get worse as social security and Medicare grow more insolvent

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Get rid of Dim fraud and neither would be insolvent