re: If we have a recession- who will you blame?

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The past four years the past four years the past four years dude try the last 100.

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True. I'm 46 and in my life watching our government function has been akin to watching actual retards have an absurdly competitive water balloon fight, where everyone wildly misses, before going out for ice cream together afterwards.

IAnything to avoid blaming Trump’s recklessness and hubris, right? This chaos was completely unnecessary…

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Deficit by year 2008-Covid

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2008: $1.6 trillion
2009: $1.8 trillion
2010: $1.3 trillion
2011: $1.5 trillion
2012: $1.4 trillion
2013: $1.6 trillion
2014: $1.7 trillion
2015: $1.8 trillion
2016: $1.9 trillion
2017: $1.9 trillion
2018: $1.9 trillion
2019: $1.9 trillion
2020: $3.1 trillion
2021: $2.8 trillion

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If we 2 trillion dollar deficits for 15 years straight, we can do 2 trillion dollar surpluses for that long

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50+ years of corrupt politics, and specifically the modern left for creating this most recent disaster of an economy.

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It started with Kissinger’s secret trip in 1971 and Nixon’s trip to China 1972. Those trips are what started us opening up trade with China. Then in 2001 Bush signing the Permanent Normal Trade Relations making them a full trade partner with low tariffs. Then later in 2001 we allowed China to join WHO. Congress should not have passed a permanent status act.

After China and the Soviet Union had disagreements about ideology and politics their trade slowed. Nixon probably thought it would hurt the Soviet Union if we became China’s #1 trading partner.

I keep seeing stories about democrat-controlled state and local governments having SEVERE budget crises (MD, WA, CA, CT, etc, just off the top of my head).

How about saving some blame for all those idiots who bankrupted their governments to pay for illegals just so they'd have more names for ballots to stuff?

The central bank and both parties.

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Let’s define a recession in simplified terms-
2 consecutive quarters with negative growth.

Coming into the election, the economy was a central topic. Some said we were in a recession already.

Trump was adamant that he would bring us a great economy. I watch a lot of CNBC who have guests on mentioning recession.

If we run into a recession (defined above), who gets the blame?

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Congress.

If we are in a recession, or enter one in future it is a direct result (with several contributing factors that can be blamed on consecutive Presidents) of deficit spending snowballing through inflation. I say it is a direct result because we are now a 70% based consumer (vs. mfg) economy.

Biden and the Democrats.

They flooded the economy with ridiculous amounts of printed money to create the inflationary environment while they lied that it was "transitory". Then upon losing, they were "throwing gold bars off the Titanic" as they said. Just doing anything they could to bankrupt the country.
This was blatant corruption and lies.

It was over June 2022