Discussion: Milestone: National Debt Tops $22 Trillion For The First Time In History

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Time for more corporate and wealthy folks tax cuts.
Always great for the poor and middle class.

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Now this is a real national emergency. Taxes on the very, very, very Rich must be reduced immediately and Social Security and Medicare totally eliminated.

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Republicans break the economy.
Dems have to fix it.
Rinse, lather, repeat.

When the shit finally hits the fan and governance hopefully resumes, the Rethug mantra will be “you didn’t give it enough time.”

Laffer curves, Sam Brownback, trickle down, I’m so over it.

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Congrats to this administration for the new record. I’ll bet tRump is proud of this accomplishment but why isn’t he out there talking about it non-stop? It’s such a big win. :frowning:

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Trump: “Let’s go for 25. That’s gotta be better, right?”

Someone needs to explain to them that debt is more like golf than football … low score wins.

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The King of OPM (Other People’s Money) is busy shovelling that debt into private hands like the stoker on a fast steam train.

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Trump is a walking bankruptcy machine…everything he touches goes belly up! His tax returns will show that Trump is not even worth $ 100 M…he blew the fortune he inherited from his father. It is all gone and relies n Russia and the Saudi Royal family for loans to stay afloat. Once he’s impeached…he and his 2 grease ball sons and Ivanka will be bankrupt once again.

But Republicans respond this is Good debt:

  1. Huge UNFUNDED tax cuts for Billionaire crooks like Steve Mnuchin who made his fortune foreclosing on homes during the Bush 2007 financial collapse.
  2. Huge tax cuts for corporations AND they still get to write off those tickets and cocktail parties at the Super Bowl as marketing expense…something individuals and families can not do. You can thank corporations for the high ticket prices at sporting events…and you are also funding those “corporate boxes”.
  3. Huge spending that is unfunded on Trump’s mid evil broken ICE secret police and authoritarianism keeping Americans locked in the US…American citizens are now being shot by ICE as they leave the country!

Trump and Melani have spent over $100 M just on Air Force One and Security at Mar-a-Lago alone…over $ 100 M dollars over the budget for the Secret Service.

Trump is a walking bankruptcy machine!

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Well, he should be happy – he’s hit a milestone that no other president could reach: the BIGGEST(!!!) deficit in American history!

Now, someone just needs to explain to his base why this is not a good thing.

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The Trump Crime Syndicate is bankrupting our country!

Make red states pay for it. For a change.

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What does the budget deal Rump is rumored to plan on signing have to say about the debt ceiling? Nothing, right? That’s a disgrace. Another can to kick, to another arbitrary sum at another arbitrary date. Then the Grand Old Politburo can manufacture another crisis.

Could’ve sworn the current occupant campaigned on the crime that Obama worsened the deficit and only HE could fix it.

Great job, there, Donnie.

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And not a peep from Republicans who spent all of Obama’s presidency bitching and moaning about the deficit, when he saved us from depression, got more people health insurance and still reduced the percentage of the debt. Goddamn how can anyone with half a brain vote for republicans?

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Another Trump milestone! WINNING!!!

(And Steve Mnuchin gets uglier by the second. Yeah, I made fun of his looks. Ya gonna make me stop? Huh, Punk?!)

Oh, becca, you’ve got it all wrong!

Obama did worsen it – he made it smaller (and remember those re-payments from the auto companies that got helped out during the aftermath of Bushbaby’s mess? Just shrunk it even more.)

So, Donnie fixed it by making it bigger and more massive than any other president before him! A thing to behold!!

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Shut up good looking poor man! He’s got money, that’s all his wife cares about. Works for Donald too. (note don’t take offence, this is meant to be in fun, even if it’s sadly true!)

Don’t worry folks. Trump will just default on the debt.

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Hey! Maybe we can get Franky Graham Cracker and the Trump Pulpit Pimps to PRAY THE DEBT AWAY!

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Nothing to see here, move along. We must all be patient and wait for the tax cuts to magically pay for themselves. Now, if you all clap your hands, really hard…

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I look forward to hearing from Republicans about how this is a giant pressing emergency. On January, 2021.

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