The United States is $222 trillion in debt

Why not? I thought this was a Christian nation?

 

So...just print more huhh? Ever heard of inflation?

 

Its Christian to force your costs on to someone else?

 

The US Dollar only has value because it's currency used for international trade. Without that, the US dollar only has value in the US. and if we began printing more money that we actually have in our economy by a wide margin, the value of each dollar for plummet. We would't go completely broke exactly, but our money would be worth far less.

 

Dont ruin his perpetual motion machine

 

Yet it still wasn't free.

You probably didn't pay for your baby food either. Still wasn't free.

 

What if the value of its currency goes broke?

 

Does it look like we will cut spending any time soon?

 

If voters actually demand it, yes.

Of course, it’s not just “cut spending”. It’s also “raise taxes.” A combination of the two is the only feasible way to balance the budget.

 

That's highly, highly unlikely. Advocating for spending cuts these days is political suicide.

 

That’s why you need a grand bargain sort of thing.

Democrats once offered $2.50 in spending cuts for every $1 in new taxes. Republicans turned them down. But that’s the way we’ll get there.

 

They never demand it.
Who you foolin?

 

As a joke

 

Nomore wars, actually Trump got elected by promising to get us out of these wars. Nomore war hawks in the whitehouse. We can't afford it anymore.

 

Good plan, as long as military spending is on the chopping block as well.

 

The democrats complained about the sequester cuts that was compromised in 2013 and cuts to defense was a part of that too if all programs across the government were cut as well.

 

No, it wasn’t a joke. Come on.

 

But he didn’t double the debt

 

Did a group of politcians propose it?

 

...................un, no

 

Uh, yes

Bet you gripe about the ultra rich as you hand them trillions of dollars for "saving" you.

 

The Top Five Contributors by Percentage
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Percentage-wise, President Roosevelt increased the debt by the largest amount. Although he only added $236 billion, this was a 1,048% increase from the $23 billion debt level left by President Herbert Hoover.


Of course, the Great Depression took an enormous bite out of revenues. The New Deal cost billions. But FDR's major contribution to the debt was World War II spending. He added $209 billion to the debt between 1942 and 1945.


Woodrow Wilson: President Wilson was the second-largest contributor to the debt, percentage-wise. He added $21 billion, which was a 727% increase over the $2.9 billion debt of his predecessor. Wilson had to pay for World War I. During his presidency, the Second Liberty Bond Act gave Congress the right to adopt the national debt ceiling.


Ronald Reagan: President Reagan increased the debt by 186%. Reaganomicsadded $1.86 trillion. Reagan's brand of supply-side economics didn't grow the economy enough to offset the lost revenue from its tax cuts. That was partly because Reagan increased the defense budget by 35%.


George W. Bush: President Bush added $5.849 trillion, the second-greatest dollar amount. It was the fourth-largest percentage increase. Bush increased the debt by 101% from where it started at $5.8 trillion on September 30, 2001. That's the end of FY 2001, which was President Clinton's last budget.


Bush launched the War on Terror in response to the 9/11 attacks. The War on Terror included two wars. The War in Afghanistan cost $1.1 trillion and the Iraq War cost $1 trillion. They increased military spending to record levels of $600 billion to $800 billion a year.


President Bush also responded to the 2001 recession by passing the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. He approved a $700 billion bailout package for banks to combat the 2008 global financial crisis. Both Presidents Bush and Obama had to contend with higher mandatory spending for Social Security and Medicare.


Barack Obama: Under President Obama, the national debt grew the most dollar-wise. He added $8.588 trillion. This 74% increase was the fifth-largest. Obama's budgets included the economic stimulus package. It added $831 billion by cutting taxes, extending unemployment benefits, and funding public works projects.
https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296

Yet still falls behind Reagan and Bush 2.
And needed debt to halt Bush's greatest recession in history.

 

What does any of that have to do with the debt today?
Going up every minute, with R's running the show. I guess they are handing out free stuff also.

 

Every rightist in here derailed and deflected.
Went OT.
Brought up obama or stuff that hasn't even happened yet.

Why can't rightists address a topic with honesty?

 

Yeah it happened once back in the later 1970's and early 1980's