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AllaN01Bear

(23,748 posts) Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:17 PM Tuesday

is there any way we can throw the deficit thing back into the rs face.?

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is there any way we can throw the deficit thing back into the rs face.? (Original Post) AllaN01Bear Tuesday OP

You can try. It never works. They have absolutely ZERO shame about hypocrisy RockRaven Tuesday #1

Nov2000 this nation was on track to ZERO DEBT by 2009. Republicans voted blm Tuesday #2

i remember that. econtinued unter,,, AllaN01Bear 20 hrs ago #3

RockRaven

(16,721 posts)

1. You can try. It never works. They have absolutely ZERO shame about hypocrisy

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:20 PM

Tuesday

or contradicting themselves.

blm

(113,917 posts)

2. Nov2000 this nation was on track to ZERO DEBT by 2009. Republicans voted

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:37 PM

Tuesday

to replace Clinton’s surplus budget tax and economic policies with Bush’s deficit-increasing, economy-collapsing tax and economic policies. Then in 2016 they voted to double down on that with Trump.

Media ignored the fact that Trump’s drunken-sailor spending policies added far more to the debt, but, without ANY of Trump’s spending going to benefit the nation’s infrastructure, improve healthcare, or strengthen US manufacturing - Biden’s spending, though it was half of Trump’s, did.

Trump added twice as much to the national debt as Biden: Analysis
https://thehill.com/business/4736740-trump-biden-fiscal-policy-deficit/

AllaN01Bear

(23,748 posts)

3. i remember that. econtinued unter,,,

Reply to blm (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 29, 2025, 10:11 AM

20 hrs ago

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