Politics National Debt Passes $22 Trillion For First Time

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  1. Chris Craig

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    $1T added in less than a year. Pretty impressive. Guess the Republicans really meant it all those years they whined about the deficit.

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    A4C82F79-0B07-4E51-B6DB-D3B9FF31366C.jpeg That’s what the national debt does, it goes up. The last 40 years worth of losers we’ve had in office haven’t done anything to change that trend. It’s almost as if we have a federal reserve monetary system that keeps us in perpetual debt by design...
     
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    All the whining and crying the Republican did about Obama running up the deficit (mostly by supporting Bush’s bailouts) and now we don’t hear a peep out of those hypocrites. Now there’s a surprise.......
     
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    $1,000,000,000,000 is less than the yearly interest on the debt Trump inherited from Obama, so in fact in his first 2 years Trump has reduced the deficit roughly $2.500,000,000,000, since taking office but the interest alone on Obama's debt is nearly $2,000,000,000,000 per year.

    This is what is known as "insurmountable debt".
     
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    The trillion in 11 months was mostly for military applications...and this didn't start with Obama...it started with Dick Cheney...complicated by Trump's cold wars with China and Europe and Canada and Latin America...under Trump Russia and China have stepped up military escalation....the full brunt of Trump's bluster is coming....Trump is paying farmers to lose their markets...see how that ends.
     
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    gotta spend money to make money
     
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    I'm selling advice if you need to spend some big bucks toward your success campaign
     
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    Your post is a gushing geyser of misinformation and outright bullshit.

    The interest on the national debt currently is less than $400B. Not a trivial sum, but only 20% of what you claimed.

    Additionally, Trump has not reduced the deficit, he has increased it.

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    So, similar to AOC's economics degree?

    Gotcha.
     
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    I rounded out the numbers but am closer than your ridiculous drivel. If the Dems don't spend any more money, which they will, and they don't obstruct Trump's economic improvements, which they will, interest alone will cost $7 trillion over the next ten years.

    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-national-debt-tops-22-trillion-for-the-first-time-2019-02-12
     
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    No, you made up numbers, which were not at all close to reality.

    Dems can't spend any money without Trump and the Republicans agreeing to it.

    Wait, I thought you said it was $2T per year?

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    #alt-trump-speak-math We build 50 miles of fence for 400mil so 100 miles should be about 27 billion...I've been doing this building thingy for a long time folks being a stable genius that I should be but never am recognized for in all my greatness by the totally sadly FAKE news believe me, I know how these things work. I own lots of steel and coal stocks...during my presidency we're going to use LOTS of steel and coal!
     
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    This is what 40 years of two party corruption gets ya.
     
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    A good try at rewording "Both sides do it." I used to tell Denny every time this came up...

    At the end of the Clinton Administration, the nation was running in the black, a surplus not a deficit, every year. All forecasts said we'd have no debt by 8 years later. Then in 2001, Republicans took power, and enacted a gigantic tax cut for the rich to take advantage of this surplus.
     
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    Republican math at it's finest. Dishonest.
     
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