Monday, May 30, 2022

Trump Beat Bush and Obama

In DEFICIT Creation.  Now I know you Trump supporters, I know you want to deny how BAD was for the National Debt...  But the numbers do not lie.  And this came from a Conservative Think Tank.


7 comments:

Anonymous said...

If we aren't going to raise taxes, we have to reduce what we pay for or reduce the cost what we pay for. The two big ticket items are defense and health care. Why not refashion our military into a smaller ==Hmore mobile force which seem to better fit our national security needs. As for health care, what about price controls?

Republicans talk about leadership. Where is Republican leadership on these issues?

--Hiram

Anonymous said...

Debt is a complex issue masquerading as a single issue. It is comprised of two very different issues. It is about spending and it is about revenue, two very different things. You can't deal with debt without dealing with one or both of those issues. And a politician who talks about death, without talking about where he would increase revenue and where he would make cuts, is simply evading the issue the issue he pretends to raise.

Revenue increases are off the table, so that means we must reduce what we buy. How can we do that while retaining our character as a nation?

--Hiram

John said...

I am more interested in how people can still support or believe Trump...

The man promised to eliminate the National Debt.

And instead he added more to it than his predecessors.

And worse yet, somehow he managed to do this during a booming economy?

Anonymous said...

I don't think Trump voters care about the national debt. Let's face it, the national debt is something politicians always complain about, particularly when they aren't in power, and nothing is ever done about it, and it never seems to matter. There simply is no constituency for dealing with it in practical terms.

I think the big issue for Trump is his promise to bring manufacturing jobs back from abroad, or at least not to lose more of them. That and his promise to turn the cops loose. There will always be a base for supporting those measures.

Republicans in Minnesota are campaigning on the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Lots of videos showing buildings burning. I don't know how you talk about the riots without talking about George Floyd.

--Hiram

John said...

I realize that most of those "Balanced Budget" folks are True Hypocrites.

As for George Floyd, we have spent way too much money on and to much time talking about that drugged up counterfeiter... One would swear that he was a Saint of some sort.

Anonymous said...

I am not that interested in labelling, but the fact is, it seems to me, we are increasingly unwilling to engage with substantive problems.

The debt, as I see it, is an arithmetical artifact. It is the result of juxtaposing to different issues, spending and revenue. These are very difficult things. In terms of household economics, the activities associated with spending are different from earning. In public policy, with revenue off the table, the question we have to deal with is "Do we spend too much?" Well do we?

To answer that question, we have to take a look at things we do spend money on and on how we spend it. That's the discussion we should have, and that we avoid having.

==Hiram



Anonymous said...

Anybody know why Republicans aren't running candidates for state legislature in SD 43 this year? That's never happened before and I anticipate this will be a Republican year.

--Hiram