We need to balance spending to our earnings and hopefully reduce debt. By 2036 that will be $2 trillion a year debt. How do you invest when you are borrowing trillions a year?

There are always $$$$ billions available to invest in prisons, the military and ICE. But when it comes to the health and well being of the people, suddenly we are broke?

We borrow money to pay our debt now. Our spending is so high we have a hard time servicing our debt. Just like a struggling household there is no money to invest. Bill Clinton balanced our budget. It needs to happen again.

Bill was not right wing.

I didn't say you were right wing.

The government is NOT "just like a struggling household," and that IS a right wing concept.

Clinton had a propensity for compromising with right wing ideas.

But you are avoiding answering my point. If the country is so broke, how come their is so much money for prisons, the military and ICE.

Prisons are in relation to the incarceration rate. Decrease one and it decreases the other. If you release without cutting the crime it the same problem. I won’t argue ice. The police could also handle immigration enforcement. The military spending needs cut absolutely.