![]() And you’re too much of a coward to admit it. |
You faily to grasp that the majority of the debt incurred in the modern era was done under the Bushs and Trump. That isn't to say there wasn't debt under Clinton, Obama and now Biden, but the majority of it came from GOP presidents. GOP presidents have all left recession and shrinking GDP and job losses. Dem presidents including Biden have seen growing GDPs, growing economies, expanded job opportunities, etc. the Dems make the forecasts based on the economies when they are in office, Yet three times now, the GOP has taken the White House, screwed up the economy, blown up deficit spending and thus debt, incurred job losses and then leave it to the Dems to clean it up. Maybe at some point, the public will wake up to the idea that maybe the GOP isn't really better for "the economy" because the facts over the last 30 years speak for themselves. |
Now flip that on its head and do it by Congress, not by President. |
The GOP is happy to spend and roll in that pork when they get credit for it. They only become fiscal hawks when a Democrat is in the White House. |
You realize the problem is not government- it’s that at one point one of the parties decided they were going to say no to everything, even when they were offered what they wanted. Stop voting for obstructionists and start voting for public servants. You keep voting to give overgrown toddlers with zero understanding of government $180,000 paychecks. So it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
I have a 20 year mortgage. I work one job. We can fix the deficit by having people pay their taxes. They should also do away with the mortgage deduction for 10 years to pay down the deficit. |
Wow. This thread went transgenders v. MAGA super quickly. I’m rooting for a double KO of the two worst cults in America. |
Bothsides |
Our federal democratic republic form of government has been and still can be a beautiful and effective form of government in the free world. With our two party political system, we need two highly functioning parties in order for there to be the sustained quality in leadership that is needed to maintain a healthy government. Our political parties haven't functioned at an acceptable level for the past few decades and we're now seeing that reflected in a government that appears to be less effective and less efficient than it once was. We simply need our best and brightest running the show and we haven't had that for while. |
+1. This “all or nothing” attitude has got to stop. Immigration reform was on the table years ago but we got nothing and look where we are now. |
Plus with the crazies in Congress and SCOTUS, electing a Republican is downright dangerous now. Imagine the damage they would do. |
NP. Here is what the GOP stands for: Overturning Roe? Plan large cuts to social security? Plan large cut to Medicare? Taking food benefits from low income kids? Restrictions on birth control? More hatred of gay and trans people? Reducing heating subsidies to low income families and elderly Americans? Reduced spending on public education but increasing vouchers so people can put their kids in religion schools? More denial of climate change? Less funding for Ukraine to appease Putin? |
So you are both-siding "the parties"? What have the democrats done to undermine the republic? |
Obama was president. There was a GOP House and GOP Senate. The Senate passed a bi-partisan bill. Obama Said he would sign it. GOP Speaker Paul Ryan refused to bring it to a House floor vote. This isn't a "both sides" thing. The GOP knew if immigration was addressed, they couldn't use it as a wedge issue, so deny legislation, let the border deteriorate, show pictures on Fox, blame democrats and voila, angry rubes. |
To be fair, with climate change, the bolded won't be necessary. |