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re: Trillion - we thrown this number around without thought
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:57 pm to TopFlightSecurity
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:57 pm to TopFlightSecurity
I posted this in another thread and it never got much of a reaction, but it boggles my mind. From 1941-1945 we fought a two theatre world war that cost 4.1 trillion dollars adjusted for inflation, the first part of a stmulus to combat what amounts to a really bad flu is going to cost half of what ww2 cost.
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 8:03 pm
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Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:58 pm to StringedInstruments
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But many of us vote for fiscally conservative candidates and they spend the money anyway. Then we voted for new people and they spend the money anyway. Then there are peaceful movements and protests calling for fiscal conservative spending and new people get elected and they spend the money anyway.
Welcome to America of the last 50 years, where the average person no longer matters. Our political elites appease corporations and other political leaders and don't care what us average Joes want.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:03 pm to tigernnola
Money printing machine go BRRRRR
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:10 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Y'all people realize that ya boy put us 3 tril+ further down the hole before this all started right?
No one cared then.
fricking vermin are too stupid to know where spending bills are originated from.
Why don't you tell us who in Congress is leading the way on budget management?
I am tired of fricking idiots.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:13 pm to tigernnola
The GDP is a little bigger now than it was in the 1700s.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:15 pm to tigernnola
Its a million.. Million dollars
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:22 pm to tigernnola
Our government needs to go back to wearing these:
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:41 pm to tigernnola
A trillion is 1000 billion. Just imagine that.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:48 pm to Ronaldo Burgundiaz
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Osama / Bush 2 really did a number on this country. Obama kept it going, and so has Trump.
I mean, the debt was only like, 8 trillion when Bush left office.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:59 pm to tigernnola
I once killed a guy
Posted on 4/12/20 at 9:13 pm to wadewilson
quote:While true, when he took over in 2000 we had a budget surplus. Seems like such a foreign concept nowadays. He laid the groundwork for trillions in waste with the unwinnable war on terror.
I mean, the debt was only like, 8 trillion when Bush left office
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 11:20 pm to tigernnola
Trillion isn’t a lot.
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