Why is the media not talking about the massive U.S. government debt?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our national debt is truly shocking. Just look at this “debt clock:”

https://usadebtclock.com/


This debt could get out of control and even become an existential threat. But I do not hear anyone in our national media sounding the alarm.

Why is that?

I think the government is too large, but mostly I think the military budget is too large. The GOP won't cut a penny from the military budget, which is so massively wasteful it is sickening.

Will Democrats file a lawsuit to stop DOGE from operating in DOD?

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Anonymous wrote:Our national debt is truly shocking. Just look at this “debt clock:”

https://usadebtclock.com/


This debt could get out of control and even become an existential threat. But I do not hear anyone in our national media sounding the alarm.

Why is that?

Letting the TCJA tax cuts expire would reduce the growth in national debt by trillions of dollars over the next decade.

In other words:

- raise the percentage of taxes collected every year?

Americans voted in MAGA to stop Democrat insanity.

Ha ha ha ha. It is the GOP that keeps ramping up the debt you moron, to fund their massive tax cuts for the rich. Last time things were good were under Clinton who was a DEMOCRAT.

Clinton inherited a booming Reagan economy. Nice try.

Clinton cane into a very weak economy. That's why Bush lost (in large part). That's why Carville came up with ït's the economy stupid".

Nice try though.

If anyone objectively analyzed Clinton’s record (leaving his name out of it), he would appear to have been a great Republican president, one who actually cut government.

But, he could never run for today’s Democrat Party, “Me to” would be all over him.

Clinton also built more border wall on the US/Mexico border than Trump has. Trump's lagging behind Clinton.

Clinton put up a little wooden barrier that apepars to be four feet high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our national debt is truly shocking. Just look at this “debt clock:”

https://usadebtclock.com/


This debt could get out of control and even become an existential threat. But I do not hear anyone in our national media sounding the alarm.

Why is that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot be serious OP. There have been several posts on here about the House GOP’s plans to make this situation significantly worse with further tax cuts and spending cuts that are aimed to curb economic growth.

Consistently, conservatives have avoided those threads and they quickly dropped off the first page.

Democrats do care about the debt. They want to let tax cuts a loopholes that benefit the rich and corporations expire to raise revenue. Those, combined with targeted cuts that are not aimed to hurt our poorest citizens will help the situation.

But increasing unemployment, tariffs, extending and increasing tax cuts, cutting funds that promote growth and leave our poorest citizens at risk isn’t going to do that.

By the way, neither is mass deportations, as seen by Florida’s recent moves to roll back child labor laws.

Democrats espouse Modern Monetary Theory that says higher spending and debt doesn't matter, as you just print more money.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot be serious OP. There have been several posts on here about the House GOP’s plans to make this situation significantly worse with further tax cuts and spending cuts that are aimed to curb economic growth.

Consistently, conservatives have avoided those threads and they quickly dropped off the first page.

Democrats do care about the debt. They want to let tax cuts a loopholes that benefit the rich and corporations expire to raise revenue. Those, combined with targeted cuts that are not aimed to hurt our poorest citizens will help the situation.

But increasing unemployment, tariffs, extending and increasing tax cuts, cutting funds that promote growth and leave our poorest citizens at risk isn’t going to do that.

By the way, neither is mass deportations, as seen by Florida’s recent moves to roll back child labor laws.

Democrats espouse Modern Monetary Theory that says higher spending and debt doesn't matter, as you just print more money.

Bingo.

Democrats consistently reduce or eliminate deficits only to have Republicans create huge new deficits so they basically stopped trying

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot be serious OP. There have been several posts on here about the House GOP’s plans to make this situation significantly worse with further tax cuts and spending cuts that are aimed to curb economic growth.

Consistently, conservatives have avoided those threads and they quickly dropped off the first page.

Democrats do care about the debt. They want to let tax cuts a loopholes that benefit the rich and corporations expire to raise revenue. Those, combined with targeted cuts that are not aimed to hurt our poorest citizens will help the situation.

But increasing unemployment, tariffs, extending and increasing tax cuts, cutting funds that promote growth and leave our poorest citizens at risk isn’t going to do that.

By the way, neither is mass deportations, as seen by Florida’s recent moves to roll back child labor laws.

Democrats espouse Modern Monetary Theory that says higher spending and debt doesn't matter, as you just print more money.

Bingo.

Democrats consistently reduce or eliminate deficits only to have Republicans create huge new deficits so they basically stopped trying

This 'deficit reduction' comes from spending a massive amount of money in the first year, and then taking credit for not having a smaller deficit than this massive amount in later years.
The Republicans just increase it as they go along.

[Anonymous]

An Obama advisor summed it up: "Journalists know nothing."

They can be easily led to print what the party leaders want.

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot be serious OP. There have been several posts on here about the House GOP’s plans to make this situation significantly worse with further tax cuts and spending cuts that are aimed to curb economic growth.

Consistently, conservatives have avoided those threads and they quickly dropped off the first page.

Democrats do care about the debt. They want to let tax cuts a loopholes that benefit the rich and corporations expire to raise revenue. Those, combined with targeted cuts that are not aimed to hurt our poorest citizens will help the situation.

But increasing unemployment, tariffs, extending and increasing tax cuts, cutting funds that promote growth and leave our poorest citizens at risk isn’t going to do that.

By the way, neither is mass deportations, as seen by Florida’s recent moves to roll back child labor laws.

Democrats espouse Modern Monetary Theory that says higher spending and debt doesn't matter, as you just print more money.

Bingo.

Democrats consistently reduce or eliminate deficits only to have Republicans create huge new deficits so they basically stopped trying

This 'deficit reduction' comes from spending a massive amount of money in the first year, and then taking credit for not having a smaller deficit than this massive amount in later years.
The Republicans just increase it as they go along.

Democrats always have to spend a massive amount of money in the first year to dig us out of whatever economic cataclysm that Republicans have caused.

[Anonymous]

OP would be shocked to know that Donald Trump lives off of huge debt. When you have wealth tied up in assets, you can do that. Bonus, it’s tax free. Essentially that’s what we do with the American economy—take out loans underwritten by the strength of our economic growth. It’s only a problem if the economy is mismanaged… like now for example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That debtclock website now shows $254 billion saved by DOGE.

And how much spent/ wasted?

This isn’t economic analysis, it’s misleading accounting.

[Anonymous]

Our media at work...

https://bsky.app/profile/jfallows.bsky.social/post/3llp6afgvb226

[Anonymous]

MAGAs, can we discuss Republicans plans to blow up the deficit? I noticed OP never came back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP would be shocked to know that Donald Trump lives off of huge debt. When you have wealth tied up in assets, you can do that. Bonus, it’s tax free. Essentially that’s what we do with the American economy—take out loans underwritten by the strength of our economic growth. It’s only a problem if the economy is mismanaged… like now for example.

Trump jumps from bankruptcy to bankruptcy, and USA is the next corpse he is robbing and raping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh, it is sustainable for now.

Japan has like 300% debt to GDP and it hasn't ceased to exist. It isn't good, but it isn't world ending.

Let the bond markets figure it out. The US can't keep running a deficit at an increasing velocity, or else borrowing costs will explode in the markets. The free market is OK for now for what US has borrowed.

And now they want to get 60 million tourists a year since they're broke (currently 30 million a year, up from 10 million pre covid).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MAGAs, can we discuss Republicans plans to blow up the deficit? I noticed OP never came back.

They can’t deal with facts.

Let’s revisit:

37 trillion in national debt
Rs budget will add another 14 trillion
Investors getting spooked about buying our debt because of dear leader

This is not going to end well