One-quarter of the national debt is from his retarded fucking wars.
Trump will probably amount for over 40% of it by the end of his term. Bush is nothing.
>>541593259this. idk how much exactly but the tariffs are stupidly expensive. the war against Iran is also already expensive (effect of fuel prices might be bigger than the direct military expenditures).it's really hard to imagine any of this will pay out in even some way
>>541592689Yes but think of how much money China made building all the military equipment components
Unfunded tax cuts, and unsustainable spending on boomer social security, Medicare, Medicaid are the main drivers of the deficit. The solutions are actually very simple to figure out and our politicians know this but cutting bennies and raising taxes are political suicide so this is why we have a huge deficit that won't get fixed until the very last second which is gonna get real ugly for people who fail at saving for retirement or medical expenses.
>>541592689and he signed the Patriot Act which paved the way to flock surveilling you 24/7 and visa/mc being allowed to decide who does and does not get to make transactions.
>>541592689Debt is meaningless. They'll just keep increasing it. Nothing will happen. It's just a number on a screen.
>>541593259>>541593492It's okay we'll just do what we've been trying to do for decades now and outgrow the debt.
>>541593970Medicare and Social Security will NEVER be cut because boomers vote at 6 times the rate that working Americans do.
>>541592689Israel’s wars
>>541594158I hope so but obviously shredding the population's wealth for many years to do this is not much fun though.
i remember saying this in 2003turns out i was right
Republicans voted for this
>>541596565Everyone knew it was a terrible idea. The largest world wide protests in history were against the Iraq & Afghanistan wars but he still did it anyway.