Quote (Thor123422 @ 20 Dec 2020 21:06)
Feel free to show examples of Republican politicians making policy moves to address the deficit before 2020. "I googled articles" isn't great support. I heard about the deficit constantly for 8 years under Obama and then barely a fraction of that concern under Trump.
Goal Post: Moved.
So now it's not about republicans, it's about republican politicians. Republican journalists putting out thousands of articles isn't enough proof that "republicans" indeed DID care about the rapidly increasing deficit under Trump, now you need to know specifically about republicans who hold office?
The bottom line here is that in 2020 the deficit has been of minor concern at best because everyone, regardless of party, has been impacted by lockdowns and riots, and the majority of the working class is concerned about keeping a home when not being allowed to work. When state and city governments are preventing millions of Americans from providing for themselves and refusing any compensation, the natural bent is to ask the Federal Government for some form of relief. When asking for relief, the last thing the average person is going to do is start bitching about other ways the Federal Government is spending money. The ONLY concern becomes "can you help me?"
Which is why it's incredibly stupid first of all to bring the deficit up in a stimulus check thread, and it's an outright lie to claim Republicans don't and haven't cared about the deficit under Trump. Either walk back your statement which was clearly false, admit you were wrong, and switch to a point, or the conversation is pointless. I could bring up 50 proposed bills and budgets over the last 4 years by republicans designed to limit spending and overreach, and it clearly won't be good enough for you, you'll change the goal post again. So what's the point?