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Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent nails it "economic security is national security"
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:03 am
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:03 am
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If tweet fails to load, click here. TLDR: Americans took the easy way out empowering and building up China at the expense of weakening the US just to save a few bucks.
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Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:05 am to The Pirate King
He sounds kind of like Ross Perot back in 1991.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:09 am to The Pirate King
Rubio/Bessent 2028
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:09 am to uggabugga
$40 trillion in national debt.
20% of our annual budget now spent on debt interest.
$2 trillion structural annual debt.
Trump and Bessent and digging our national grave deeper and deeper.
Another cycle of Republican fiscal frauds.
20% of our annual budget now spent on debt interest.
$2 trillion structural annual debt.
Trump and Bessent and digging our national grave deeper and deeper.
Another cycle of Republican fiscal frauds.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:27 am to The Pirate King
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TLDR: Americans took the easy way out empowering and building up China at the expense of weakening the US just to save a few bucks.
Modern capitalism in a nutshell
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:34 am to The Pirate King
Sad thing is to some of us this is just common sense, and pro-American.
Sadly for way to many it's not. This is the msg our dept of education needs to make sure is taught early in schools.
We need this kind of of hard messaging and action when it comes to immigration too. We full and overflowing. Need to clean it up and send back.
Sadly for way to many it's not. This is the msg our dept of education needs to make sure is taught early in schools.
We need this kind of of hard messaging and action when it comes to immigration too. We full and overflowing. Need to clean it up and send back.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:35 am to HagaDaga
I would love for him to be nominated as vice president the liberals wouldn’t know what to do with a gay man running for that office as a republican
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:40 am to NashvilleTider
I personally wouldn't go that far. He is good in this financial role as it has absolutely nothing to do with the social fabric of our society. But once it gets into that realm. I'd have an issue with his lifestyle.
Our society doesn't need to promote that lifestyle as a positive.
Our society doesn't need to promote that lifestyle as a positive.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:41 am to The Pirate King
"consumption as a measure of prosperity"
Thank you Mr. Secretary.
Many will remember how bad it was when 'W' had to tell the country (after 9/11 attacks) to continue their lives of consumption. I was saddened by what we had become.
Thank you Mr. Secretary.
Many will remember how bad it was when 'W' had to tell the country (after 9/11 attacks) to continue their lives of consumption. I was saddened by what we had become.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:46 am to The Pirate King
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Americans took the easy way out empowering and building up China at the expense of weakening the US just to save a few bucks.
That is true but it sounds like he is blaming citizens for what our government did.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 9:52 am to Pikes Peak Tiger
Well everyone was all on board for taxing the living shat out of American companies and siding with unions every chance they got......so capital flowed out of the US just like water, the least path of resistance.
Now the same people are screaming about tariffs to keep it so.
Now the same people are screaming about tariffs to keep it so.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 9:54 am to The Pirate King
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Americans took the easy way out empowering and building up China at the expense of weakening the US
Thanks, Bill Clinton.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 9:55 am to tankyank13
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Rubio/Bessent 2028
Would be the first Hispanic/gay ticket.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 9:57 am to TrueTiger
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Would be the first Hispanic/gay ticket.
We can celebrate it like the Democrats do for their "firsts". It will piss them off that they weren't able to.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 10:05 am to ned nederlander
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$40 trillion in national debt. 20% of our annual budget now spent on debt interest. $2 trillion structural annual debt.
These numbers are this country’s biggest threat. Not China, the “Jews” or whatever else we think it might be.
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Trump and Bessent and digging our national grave deeper and deeper.
And, by the end of his second term and assuming there is not a drastic change of course, Trump will be responsible for 30-40% of it.
This post was edited on 5/30/26 at 10:34 am
Posted on 5/30/26 at 10:07 am to tankyank13
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Rubio/Bessent 2028
Having the first gay VP be a republican would be fabulous!
Posted on 5/30/26 at 10:09 am to Tigergreg
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We can celebrate it like the Democrats do for their "firsts". It will piss them off that they weren't able to.
It would be a good troll.
But they would still never understand that we don’t really give a shite about the labels. We just want people who can get the job done..
Posted on 5/30/26 at 10:47 am to The Pirate King
I think most MAGA/America first types have understood for +20 years the economic vulnerabilities facing the US due to the off shoring of America's industrial/manufacturing to China and other nations around the world.
Covid-19 really gave the US an opportunity to see how vulnerable the US is to logistic/supply chains disruptions from overseas suppliers. If the US didn't learn a valuable economic lesson from the Covid-19 fiasco then we get what we deserve.
Covid-19 really gave the US an opportunity to see how vulnerable the US is to logistic/supply chains disruptions from overseas suppliers. If the US didn't learn a valuable economic lesson from the Covid-19 fiasco then we get what we deserve.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 10:53 am to The Pirate King
Rand gets a lot of flack on here. This was part of his 2016 platform:
Washington Examiner
This was also the opinion of Thomas Jefferson:
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By David Sherfinski
The Washington Times
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Sen. Rand Paul says that the number one threat to U.S. national security is the country’s debt, but that a balance can be struck between cutting spending and adequately funding the military. “There are people on our side, and I think they’re absolutely wrong — there are conservatives who are, ’I’ll spend anything and I don’t care if it bankrupts the world, I’ll spend trillions of dollars, we’ve got to have it’ — that’s wrong,” the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday at the annual Wall Street Journal CEO Council gathering. “Because you will be a weaker country and you will be more vulnerable and I truly believe that the number one threat to our national security is our debt.”
Washington Examiner
This was also the opinion of Thomas Jefferson:
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"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, July 21, 1816
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