Did this thread just automatically become the thread to talk about/mock his flailing administration?
Quote (stimpy6298 @ Feb 25 2017 07:07pm)
"Trump Wants credit for bring down national debt"
great news article on how trump is still a pos after losing the election apparently ....triggered .gif
I really hoped I wouldn't have to duckwalk anybody through this one, but he hasn't brought down anything. No one, anywhere, evaluates our fiscal expenditures or receipts on a monthly basis -- that's done on a yearly basis (at minimum) or sometimes over the span of a decade. This is because evaluating these things on a monthly basis would be hilariously irresponsible; our government brings in an atypical amount of money in April for example that it doesn't in July.
The fact that our receipts were so much higher in January 2017 than they were in January 2009 is a credit to Obama and the 111th Congress preventing a Great Depression and proving an economic turnaround that's been the envy of the world. It has literally nothing to do with Trump.
Quote (Thor123422 @ Feb 28 2017 09:47am)
Democrats reduced the deficit, Republicans will jack it sky high and wreck the economy with short term policies. That's just how it goes.
How it goes, and how it's gone for 100 years. All of a sudden, shock of all shocks, the GOP doesn't care about the deficit anymore. They aren't even willing to go through the motions of pretending to be fiscally responsible anymore, which had been their base position these past 20 years. Republicans only (pretend to) care about Democratic deficits.