re: “We’re going to pay off...the $35 trillion in debt. We’re going to pay it off...fast too.

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Everything Trump did in his first term must be viewed as having been done in a hostile environment.

The Democrats and the Swamp conspired to destroy his Presidency before it began. How much time ane energy was wasted dealing with the lies of Russiagate?

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You think it will be less hostile this time around buddy? If he is ineffective in a hostile environment then I have bad news for you. It will be even more hostile this time.

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Everything Trump did in his first term must be viewed as having been done in a hostile environment.
The Democrats and the Swamp conspired to destroy his Presidency before it began.

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We definitely need four more years of excuses from the whiner in chief.

Roger isn't a liberal you retard

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I still 'member when he promised this in '16. How did that go?

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Guess your head being so far up Trump's azz you didn't notice the Russia hoax took up a lot of his time then phony impeachments. Then again I never heard him say he was going to pay off the national debt either.

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HOW are we going to pay off the debt, must less "fast"?

What's the plan, Stan?

At least the Dems have plans for the crap they want to push.

Trump is all talk.

How much did he reduce the debt the first time?

"Oh, it will be differnt this time". Why? How?

Before we even think about paying off debt, we have to get our spending under our tax revenue. And we are FAR away from that.

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Just print money, pay off the debt with it, then change currency treating the old like we did Confederate currency. Simple. Or pay it off with all the money owed us and collect using the military. See two easy solutions.

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Paying off debt is bad!!! Reeeeeee.

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Paying off debt is good

Lying about paying off debt is bad...


Unless you actually believe him, in which case LOL at you

How about 100% taxing all the super rich leftists like Gates, Zuckerberg?

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Why do we use GDP when calculating a debt to income ratio for the federal government? The GDP is not the government's income, it's the whole country's. If you want to do D/I for GDP, then you have to look at ALL debt, public and private. If you simply want to compare federal debt to income, you'd have to look at just federal revenues as income.

Otherwise what you're saying is that the entire GDP is available to finance the federal debt. I don't think that's right.

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I understand your line of thought but first off, GDP and federal income should be proportionally linear. So measuring federal income to debt is like looking at a shadow to determine the size of the object instead of the object itself. Tax rates can go up and down, so just knowing tax income would not be enough information to underwrite a loan.

Debt to GDP is in effect, a country's public debt to it's gross domestic product. That debt is not some castle on a hill's debt, it's your debt as a American citizen. If you were underwriting the united states and it's citizens, you want to know all the income of the public of the entire country, because you want to know what the chance of a default is. You don't want to know what income they got, you want to know what income they have possibility of getting to avoid a default.


Another way to think about it. A business goes to get a loan, the bank isn't going to just ask what their profit last year is, that doesn't really tell you anything about their risk of default. The bank wants to see your whole income statement (top and bottom line), and your balance sheet ( assets and liabilities.) They want to see what the total possible squeeze and collateral is if shite hits the fan.

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Tariffs help woke corporations and hurt the working man.

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Ok explain to me how tariffs on Chinese crawfish hurt Louisiana crawfishermen.

If you drained every bank account of every single American, you would barely dent the debt