re: Will we see any balanced budgets/surpluses under Trump's next admin?

he will for sure eas our debt.

How much? Not sure.

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Dig a hole. Stake your position. Defend a quarter of the battlefield. Get blown up from behind on simple policy facts.

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Literally none of that occurred ITT

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Continue to argue like hell while getting ran over by a tank of facts.

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Which facts "ran me over" ITT

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Neither he nor Vance mentioned the national debt once, I believe. They don't care. And neither does the base. Let the millennial and zoomer generations deal with the impending servitude.

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Boomers already took out the 16th mortgage on the country to pay for their excess and bail themselves out. It will fall apart eventually, Trump couldnt stop if even if he wanted to. Congress would slap down any attempt to be fiscally responsible

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When will it not be the boomers doing all these bad things to you/the country? I mean, they're not even the largest generation and make up about a 30% of the adult population. How long before you are done whining about them?

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The results speak for themselves. You are right though, no sense whining about it. Whats done is done. Once boomers finally die and relinquish their power, we will clean up their mess as best as we can

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The results speak for themselves. You are right though, no sense whining about it. Whats done is done. Once boomers finally die and relinquish their power, we will clean up their mess as best as we can

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You're missing the point. But I'll go with your statement here - are boomers omnipotent? How stupid and weak is your generation and the rest of the generations behind the boomers? Boomers have to die to "relinquish" their power in a country where they account for 30% of the adult population.

There will be about 500 excuses in this thread but Trump will continue deficit spending and the debt will easily go past $45T by the time he's done, if he's elected. A bolstered economy will never offset the spending that DC desires, which Trump will gladly sign up for, because he thinks that spending money fixes all problems.

When he says things like 'rebuild the military', I'm not sure how anyone thinks existing spending won't be increased dramatically. He is clueless about things like the military and the fact that we have about 1000 too many flag officers, each one with a staff of at least 25 people. That's about 25,000 people in uniform that do nothing for our warfighting capability, and each one costs us a minimum of $250k / yr. That's over $6B/yr that we are wasting.

Every military in history that has seen similar bloat in top ranks has gone on to get routed in combat. Every single one.

This does not address the roughly 10,000 SES employees at the Pentagon, many of them are duplicate positions for flag officers. Each of them with a staff.

We can easily cut $10B in DoD just by purging bloat at the top. People have no idea how much these flag officers and SES personnel cost and how much they are pampered.

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Orange was spending like crazy and inflation didnt run wild

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Inflation was less than 1% before Trump got started in 2016, then it rose to over 2% in the years prior to COVID. That's not severe but it's a jump. Personal income rose above the jump in inflation but that was a marginal thing, influenced by the richest getting a lot richer. The real issue is wealth inequality. The rich got richer at a fast pace and large absolute amounts while the remainder of the nation got poorer, in a relative sense, or just stayed even.

It's not a Trump-specific issue. It's a byprodcut of the nexus between Big Gov and Big Money, it's been put into overdrive with Biden, and Democrats will continue that trajectory. The problem is that Trump will do the same. He wants to cite the top line statistics but not drill down to what is affecting families and their wealth generation. He would be better than Biden, for sure, but he won't reverse the course. An improvement is still an improvement and I don't want to pretend like Trump fails to improve things, but we must reverse this course. If we don't, it will spell the end of our country.

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I can name 20 that post here every day

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And 20 more will create a new alter every week and post for 3-4 days under it.

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Im missing no point. Im ridiculing yours.

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By making a retarded point? It doesn't work that way. You're not a victim. Neither is your generation.

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They may only be 30% of the population, but that is a huge number of people. They have had a stranglehold on politics since the 80s

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You're arguing that you/your generation is weak and stupid. Why? Why are you blaming boomers for who you vote for?

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Artificially low interest rates for years were for Boomers to recklessly acquire assets and investments
TARP was to protect their retirements once their recklessness caused what should have been collapse
Covid lockdowns were to protect their lives at the expense of younger generations
Covid bailouts again bailed out their retirements at the expense of later generations

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You have been convinced of utter nonsense by people who are advantaged by that. I don't know what you're politics are like, but for your sanity's sake I hope you're a liberal.

The only practical thing is that the budget deficit decreases as a percentage of gdp every year then in 1000 years we'll have a reasonable fiscal situation.