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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

Jan 28

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/

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is there any way we can throw the deficit thing back into the rs face.? [View all] AllaN01Bear Jan 28 OP

You can try. It never works. They have absolutely ZERO shame about hypocrisy RockRaven Jan 28 #1

Nov2000 this nation was on track to ZERO DEBT by 2009. Republicans voted blm Jan 28 #2

i remember that. econtinued unter,,, AllaN01Bear Jan 29 #3