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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump doesn’t want to ever print a negative jobs number…my guess is not filling open positions, having a certain amount of attrition if they mandate RTO and other accounting gimmicks may get you to a massive headline number.

Having government layoffs turn jobs negative isn’t something that will fly.

Also, how will any of this help with inflation or housing costs, etc?

Honestly, nobody cares about budget deficits because they never translate into anything that actually directly impacts anyone.[/quote]

Of course they translate. The federal government spends more of US GDP servicing debt payments than it does on defense. As the debt grows from borrowing a larger percentage of our GDP will be spent paying that debt, assuming countries even want our debt at a certain point. And more borrowing will push interest rates higher, which will make buying a house with a mortgage more expensive. [/quote]
Then cut Medicare if you’re so bothered[/quote]

Why Medicare? Why cut a program that benefits the most vulnerable populations in the United States? Fiscal discipline benefits everyone, because we all pay literally for a lack of fiscal discipline. We are paying now and will continue to pay in the future.

I would let the tax cuts expire and as it relates to federal employees, I would treat them like employees in every other sector and require RTO/hybrid and sell real estate that isn’t needed. [/quote]
Because Medicare and Social Security are the reason the US keeps going further into debt. Discretionary spending (i.e., basically everything else) has been effectively FLAT for nearly two decades. As a portion of GDP, we are spending less than ever on it.

This is not about “fiscal discipline.” The Republican party just uses that concept as window dressing for their actual goal of eliminating programs they don’t like.[/quote]

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