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May 27 2021 07:24am
Spend more as a % than ever before even when we were fighting the biggest war ever.
Spend about the same as we did in 2020 when literally they were giving everyone free checks and trillions were being given left and right to do something about Covid.

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Biden to Propose $6 Trillion Budget to Boost Middle Class and Infrastructure

The president’s plans to invest in infrastructure, education, health care and more would push federal spending to its highest sustained levels since World War II.

WASHINGTON — President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget on Friday that would take the United States to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II, while running deficits above $1.3 trillion throughout the next decade.

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that Mr. Biden’s first budget request as president calls for the federal government to spend $6 trillion in the 2022 fiscal year, and for total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031. The growth is driven by Mr. Biden’s two-part agenda to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure and substantially expand the social safety net, contained in his American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, along with other planned increases in discretionary spending.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/business/biden-plan.html

I've seen more responsible money management by 19 year old rich girls that got their first credit card from daddy.
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May 27 2021 07:34am
i'd personally prefer a dozen new stealth bombers
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May 27 2021 07:35am
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May 27 2021 07:43am
awful economic data the during the current administration (hardly reported, hardly discussed here, hardly surprising), zero plans to get people back to work, consumer confidence is non-existent, mixed messaging about safety and reopening.

solution? spend $6T on vague initiatives and special interests. 25,000 page spending bill im sure.
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May 27 2021 07:51am
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awful economic data the during the current administration (hardly reported, hardly discussed here, hardly surprising), zero plans to get people back to work, consumer confidence is non-existent, mixed messaging about safety and reopening.

solution? spend $6T on vague initiatives and special interests. 25,000 page spending bill im sure.


its almost as if every crackpot failed policy of the previous admin is coming into fruition.

stop acting like this is the current administration's fault. he has a sweeping mess to clean up that trump and the repubs left once again.

trump's short term smoke and mirror policies were doomed to fail from the start. their only purpose was to make him look better but they all sucked because it was to benefit him and him only.

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May 27 2021 07:52am
Regardless of party it always seems like the current parties policies are based on them keeping control for the next few terms at minimum. Obviously when running a country you need a long term view but the view of we will borrow it all now and by 203X our increases to corporate and personal tax will cover it assumes the other platform will keep those tax policies. Voters also have goldfish brains so if it does not pan out and the current party loses control and everything crashes because the new party taking control didn't follow through with the old parties policies the old party can just blame the new one saying they're crashing the economy when in fact it was due to the previous parties decision.

Politics in a nutshell really.
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May 27 2021 07:57am
Quote (SBD @ May 27 2021 09:52am)
Regardless of party it always seems like the current parties policies are based on them keeping control for the next few terms at minimum. Obviously when running a country you need a long term view but the view of we will borrow it all now and by 203X our increases to corporate and personal tax will cover it assumes the other platform will keep those tax policies. Voters also have goldfish brains so if it does not pan out and the current party loses control and everything crashes because the new party taking control didn't follow through with the old parties policies the old party can just blame the new one saying they're crashing the economy when in fact it was due to the previous parties decision.

Politics in a nutshell really.


yeah and the majority of the extremist loons in this forum (I.e users posting above) are just political shills who only care about "owning the other side" instead of coming up with comprehensive solutions.
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May 27 2021 08:03am
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its almost as if every crackpot failed policy of the previous admin is coming into fruition.

stop acting like this is the current administration's fault. he has a sweeping mess to clean up that trump and the repubs left once again.

trump's short term smoke and mirror policies were doomed to fail from the start. their only purpose was to make him look better but they all sucked because it was to benefit him and him only.


the terrible infrastructure of america isn't trump's fault really. nor is the failure of the healthcare system. its a team effort of both republican and democratic legislatures and executing branches going back decades.

regime after regime failed to rein in on a federal, state, and local level contracting and bidding issues that lead to a sluggish infrastructure meta in America. we over spent on foreign wars and international trade and security plans and now we have a country of potholes, failing power and water systems, and a shitty apparatus to fix it.

the cost to fill a pothole in america is 10x the materials and labor used to fix the pothole. thats a big reason this bill is so expensive.
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May 27 2021 08:04am
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its almost as if every crackpot failed policy of the previous admin is coming into fruition.

stop acting like this is the current administration's fault. he has a sweeping mess to clean up that trump and the repubs left once again.

trump's short term smoke and mirror policies were doomed to fail from the start. their only purpose was to make him look better but they all sucked because it was to benefit him and him only.

your “kenw” account gonna take a break now that your main is sub 20%?

and what? so the vaccine rollout playbook gets attributed to the current administration (even though Bloomberg reported it’s the Trump administration’s exact playbook https://www.bloombergquint.com/amp/politics/biden-covid-team-derides-trump-plan-while-borrowing-its-playbook) but anything bad economy-wise, foreign relations-wise, and border-wise isn’t the fault of the current admin.

heads i win, tails you lose :zzz:
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May 27 2021 08:04am
The irresponsible spending isn't in this budget. It's that we didn't do this across the last 50 years and instead invaded Iraq and generally wasted our money on right wing interventionism and tax cuts.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on May 27 2021 08:06am
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