Do voters really care about the deficit?

We all say we do, but don’t

Well voters cant really care when no candidates give a shite

Yes, so much so I told myself if Obama balanced it in his 1st term, I would vote for him.

Safe to say that never happened and my premiums went up 40%

Not really. Most of the dept is owed to ourselves.

We just shite 3 trillion, why would we care.

I’m not happy about it, but it’s not the ticking time bomb that some people make it out to be.

When you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you. When you owe the bank $30 trillion, you own the bank.

That doesn’t mitigate the harm.


Every dollar of national debt crowds out 30 cents of private investment. Doesn’t matter who it’s owed to, it still destroys private investment all the same. And private investment is the number 1 driver of long run economic growth.


But to answer the OPs question, no, the voters don’t care. It’s hard to care about something you fundamentally don’t understand. And we’ve done a shite job of teaching our population basic economics.

And when you give up 10 trillion dollars worth of private investment, China passes you up

Deficit is the shortfall between the gov takes in and what it spends. The debt is the accumulation of the deficits.

Trump seems to be unconcerned as are most politicians.

Luckily we have low interest rates.
If interest rates tick up, people are going to get a big wake up call.