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January 20, 2023 10:18 PM UTC
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Crazy quote from that guy.
[after quickly checking the news to make certain there isn't something breaking … ]
Kissinger is 99 years old. He, like all humans, will ultimately die. I'm sure the quote and the physical reality must have a logical syllogism in there somewhere.
“Kissinger is 99 years old”
Only the good die young.
Who is going to break it to Bimbo that our debt:GDP ratio after WWII was far north of 100% and we went on to build the greatest engine of economic growth and prosperity ever known to man: the American middle class.
Lauren "Bim" Boebert apparently has a simplistic, absolute view of government finance. Not to mention an incomplete view of how we developed the debt, blaming "liberals." I was amused to read earlier this year that
Two of those years were a Republican trifecta, two of those years the Republicans controlled Senate and Presidency.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,House ……….Senate…………President
115th (2017–2019) Republicans Republicans Republican (Trump) Unified
116th (2019–2021) Democrats Republicans Republican (Trump) Divided
and as a reminder … debt ceilings were raised in actual votes on 4 occasions during the Trump Sad!-ministration.
Date,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Debt Ceiling($B)……Change ($B)…Statute
Mar 15, 2017…19,847 (de facto) +1,734 [n 1]
Sept 30, 2017 …Suspended……………………………….. Pub. L. 115–56 &Pub. L. 115–123
Mar 1, 2019…..22,030 (de facto)…..+2,183
Aug 2, 2019…..Suspended………………………………….Pub. L. 116–37
[and then it was reestablished for the Biden Administration]
Jul 31, 2021……28,500 (de facto)….+6,470
I seriously doubt that Boebert cares about your analysis.
You aren't her constituent, and you aren't her target marketing opportunity, so I'm pretty sure she doesn't care about you at all.
In other words, Boebert isn't the problem, the Republican Party and all of its enablers from Fox News to Pillow-boy are the problem.
Coming out of a world war, very reasonable that the debt ratio was over 100%.
But when the economy is doing very well and unemployment is at historic lows, that is when we should be paying the debt down like crazy.
Boebert is an idiot and the right wing crazies probably don't know enough about finance to balance their own checkbook. But like a stopped clock, they're occasionally right. We do need to reduce the debt.
When Democrats are in power, the yearly deficit declines. When Republicans take over, deficits skyrocket.
It's almost like Republicans are lying that they care about deficits.
One problem I have with your debt concern. WHO buys the debt? (Answer; WE buy the debt for our retirement portfolio because we know it is safe and stable.). If it were such a bad thing, then the buyers would stop buying.
Let's say that dad loans mom $100k to go to college, and them mom gets a job and doubles her income. The household has $0 net debt, but mom has doubled her contribution to the family income.
Let's say that dad loans mom $100k to go to college, and them mom gets a job and doubles her income and Mom decides to run off with her personal trainer. The Dad has $100K debt and no income but mom has doubled her pleasure with the new boy toy.
Another Republican voter fraud case. A for real “ballot mule”. Don’t look for GOP leadership to be talking about this…
At this point, it's just comical.
GED Barbie talking about ESG is funnier than GED talking about DHS, NIH, NIMH, PPP, NATO & IRS.
It has to hurt to be this ignorant.
Each of the words represented in that acronym (Environmental, Social, Governance) taken separately, are terrifying to the feeble-minded evangelist-in-training. One can only imagine, taken together, they elicit peak pique in our little red-necked brain trust.
It is important to remember these pronouncements are by no means the product of thoughts by Reppy le PewPew, just regurgitation of the conservative swill she gladly consumes.
Mind boggling, it is.
Siberian independence -> European peace. Kamil Galeev on twitter.
The Debt Ceiling is Unconstitutional under the 14th Ammendment, Josh Marshall at TPM.
Yes but…
The executive is stronger than it has historically been. Congress is weaker than it historically has been. The country is split 50:50 politically.
Emasculating the Congress further, deciding this by Executive fiat, and telling half the country to go pound sand and ignore who they elected to office – that's not a good thing to do.
Yes playing chicken with the debt is a really dumb idea. Yes if they take it too far it can cause a giant recession. But we live in a Democracy and doing a "clever" end run around it for something that is a central argument is a really bad idea. Harmful to our Democracy.
Less harmful than actually disobeying the Constitution directly and defaulting.
The right solution is that Congress should suspend the debt ceiling and recognize that they already authorize both expenditures and revenue streams.
All the hubbub is about what happens if Republicans in Congress don't choose to do the right thing. Platinum coinage and other solutions are responsible people reacting to irresponsible hostage-takers.