A trillion here and a trillion there...

[Jolly]

[jon-nyc]

With the election over we can safely blame the fed again for inflationary monetary policy.

Nature is healing.

[Jolly]

I'm willing to admit -with 20/20 hindsight - that Trump started the ball rolling, but Biden gave it a mighty and unneeded kick.

[Horace]

This debt thing sure does seem like a looming tidal wave that we have no plan for.

[jon-nyc]

The house has a plan to increase it by 10% in just two years.

[kluurs]

I remember a Bush guy who wanted to "defund the government" and implemented a number of tax cuts just before committing to a 3 trillion dollar war. That ball has been rolling for a while now. Heck, Reagan talked a good talk and still did a good job of making a generous contribution.

[Doctor Phibes]

@kluurs said in A trillion here and a trillion there...:

I remember a Bush guy who wanted to "defund the government" and implemented a number of tax cuts just before committing to a 3 trillion dollar war. That ball has been rolling for a while now. Heck, Reagan talked a good talk and still did a good job of making a generous contribution.

Deficits don't matter.

Of course, that was said when Dick Cheney was considered a rabid right-winger. Now, he's looked on as some kind of RINO.

[Renauda]

@Doctor-Phibes

Worse than that, Cheney is now a neo-con and globalist. Very, very bad indeed.

[89th]

@Horace said in A trillion here and a trillion there...:

This debt thing sure does seem like a looming tidal wave that we have no plan for.

Musk has been pretty blunt about it, more than most politicians. It will bankrupt us in the not-so-distant future. And who knows more about bankruptcies than...