The Deficit Has Never Been This High When the Economy Was This Strong

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Does the government grow food, build houses, what exactly does it do to enrich our lives? Hell, doesn't seem like they've even been building roads with that shite

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Politicians suck. No doubt.

Wait til the next prog wins though. The promises of free shite are going to hurt us badly.

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If Barack Hussein O would not have doubled the debt ( went from 9 to 18 trillion) in his 8 piss poor years.

Hopefully when MAGA gets the trade deal done with the CHI-COMS we will see this start to see this dive down

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You're not praying hard enough obviously. Pray harder.

Trump sucks on spending as much as the rest of them. Very disappointing. If he gets reelected and doesn't do something about spending, I'll never be convinced something can be done. Because the next handful of presidents will be career politicians, and we know those frickers won't give a shite.

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If Barack Hussein O would not have doubled the debt ( went from 9 to 18 trillion) in his 8 piss poor years.

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Of all the lies on this board against Obama, this is always the best one.

Takes the recession impact on the budget deficit that was created during W.'s presidency and places it on Obama, as if it was Obama's fault that the country fell into massive recession in 2007-2008 (when he wasn't POTUS)




They never mention that Obama drove the deficit down from 1.3 trillion with Bush's last budget (2009) and got it in the 400 billion range in multiple years.

He did that with a republican congress that would not let him move tax revenue back up on the top 2% of the wealthiest people who don't need the money.


Had Obama had a democratic congress in any of his last six years, he could have possibly gotten us back to surplus as did the democratic president before him.

The economy would have thrived even more than it did.


At least Obama got his very solid economic numbers honestly, not blowing up the deficit to over a trillion.

No one has the balls to gut entitlement spending and this country will collapse before anyone does.

In fact, a lot of complete idiots want to INCREASE entitlement spending...its never going to stop.

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We have a revenue and spending problem of which both parties are guilty of not addressing. I am a proponent of a balanced budget which is a traditional Republican philosophy in which Trump and the Congress is failing miserably on. The massive tax cuts especially for the corporate tax rates and continuation of loop holes has created a revenue shortfall that even a strong economy can’t solve with defense, social security, Medicare, and Medicaid taking up the vast majority of fixed expenditures from my view, We need to up the corporate rate to about 29% and shave significant outlays for non essential programs, and crack down on massive waste with maniacal auditing of every federal dollar appropriated. The deficit is a huge problem.

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You admitted the deficit is a huge problem, then admitted what is the biggest cause of that problem and then proposed solutions that dont address that main cause? What in the blue frick?

We have a spending problem.. The revenues to the federal government went up, as the always do, after a tax cut because of increased economic activity.

The problem is spending. It is caused by corruption and greed. And the belief that we Americans need a Big Brother.

What we Americans need is Freedom and Liberty and small government.

Pygmalion has a solid post here based on fact in which Obama actually did a credible job based on the recession hand and unfounded Iraqi war that he inherited. Also, Clinton created a surplus during his tenure. I am not a Democrat, instead a registered independent, liberal on some issues and conservative on others. My view is that we are allowing Trump to jack the deficit to unprecedented levels which is similar to how he has leveraged some of his own businesses with debt. Filing for bankruptcy and walking away from hundreds of millions of loans like Trump did with his casino and other bad business decisions is not an option for the US Government.

The China deal or no deal is not going to erase our massively growing deficit - perhaps balance of trade but not the deficit.

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My view is that we are allowing Trump to jack the deficit to unprecedented levels which is similar to how he has leveraged some of his own businesses with debt.

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What programs are responsible for the majority of the current debt?