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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 188 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

NEVER let Republicans pretend to care about "fiscal responsibility" ever again.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

NEVER argue or give Republicans any benefit of the doubt ever again. If someone says they're Republican you should immediately shut them out of your life.

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[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

This is what people said in 1992. And in 2008. Guess what happened

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 123 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

he bankrupted multiple casinos, why not multiple countries?

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not the same country multiple times?

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 weeks ago

He has stated recently that the "global economy is just a big casino".

Considering his history with those, I interpreted that as a threat.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 10 points 2 weeks ago

The casinos were just to launder money. They didn't need to be profitable.

[–] homes@piefed.world 109 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 49 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I love how doge cut funding to sooooo many things and yet the debt is higher than ever. They cut USAID. they kicked people off welfare. They cut people off Medicaid etc. and yet the debt is higher than ever. Fuck you dumpy and co

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

doge was designed to remove all investigations to musk,+ allow russia to access database and security right after.

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[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Doge delayed my dad's cancer screening from being processed and he died.

He was in the emergency room in early stage four when they called him to say they finally looked at the scans. If he'd received treatment when the cancer was first detected he would have had a pretty good shot at survival.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sorry :( They have a lot of blood on their hands. the entire regime :/

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

He's bankrupting the country like he bankrupted all his other businesses.

Guys, it'll trickle down any second now.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How did Biden let this happen?

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 20 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Technically correct. We hit 100% debt/GDP ratio in 2012. This headline is intended to manipulate you into thinking something that happened over a decade ago just happened.

We actually crossed 125% under Trump in 2020.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago

If only Bill could have focused on something other than blowjobs.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

When you're borrowing money to service the debt, things can get spicy

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The debt is high as balls of course, but really there is no specific significance to reaching the level of the GDP of one year. You could just as well say it has reached 400% of the quarterly GDP or 33% of the three year GDP.

Personally I'm more worried about concrete numbers like the cost of servicing the debt yearly. That has reached 17% of your yearly budget by now.

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[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

HOW is this Possible? We ELIMINATED all of my VA Benefits, my Child's Education and School Lunch, SNAP Benefits, Healthcare and Infrastructure Funding! SURELY that gives us Enough Money for Billionaire Tax Breaks and Wars?

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[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

New Mission Objective: SURVIVE

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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Did you even say thank you?

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I still think the funniest thing about the Vance edits is that they look more normal than the real thing. Don't know how or why but the fucker lost the phenotype roulette and just looks surreal.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Billionaires took all the money. I suppose that's why they're billionaires.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its trumps debt. Every cent of it should come from his accounts

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Every cent should come from his voters and donor's accounts.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am so sick of the fiscally irresponsible Demonrats running up our national debt. If only they could follow the fiscally conservative Republisaint's example and cut all those pesky welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Imagine if we took all that wasted money and gave it to wealthy to manage. Trickledown only works if we send a tidal wave of money upwards. So much money that some invariably trickles down to the undeserving poors.

We just have to switch to a regressive national 10% sales tax (with exceptions for large ticket item purchases that only wealthy people can make of course) we could have our Demonrat debt problem solved within a couple of years.

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[–] mountainbear49@programming.dev 15 points 2 weeks ago

"The Art of the Steal" now available in all banks of the US of A.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Curious to see if it's gonna impact the USA credit ratings

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

It's simple, really. Trump has foreseen all of the economic mistakes the next democrat president will make and is already fixing them, before they even happen. Some of you should be a little more grateful.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is intentional. Crash the economy, then use that as an excuse to shutter every social program and public good. In ride the corporations on their white horse to offer us those same services, for a price. Can't afford the new prices for using the highway, fire protection, your kid's school? No problem, just sign here and your great-grandkids will still be down your debt.

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[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was going to make some joke, but instead I’m just going to talk about being heartbroken.

Because if, by some miracle, we get more anti-establishment elected officials in 2028, their policies would most assuredly destroy the country. Not because those policies are bad, but because the safety nets that would have absorbed the market shock were destroyed by this administration.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The entire notion that an entity which possesses the sole authority to issue the currency in which its budgets and accounts are denominated, can in any way be legitimately in a level of ‘debt’ it in any way could be mistaken as problematic, is fundamentally detached from reality.

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The illusion of scarcity needs to be maintained. Dollars are only worth something because the entire world believes they're worth trading for good and services. The only reason the U.S. government collects taxes and "borrows" money is to maintain the illusion.

If the US Government just conjured up trillions of dollars to pay it's debts, the world economy would collapse. So the Federal Reserve has to do it slowly via Quantitative Easing.

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Just imagine how bad it would be if the Warmonger Kamala was in power!!!1

spoiler/s, just in case

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