$5.4b

[BoyNextDoor]

That is how much the federal government borrowed today.

America’s deficit will be $800bn in 2018 and $980bn in 2019, or 57% above forecasts made before Trump’s election.

 

[Rightguide]

Funding the Democrat agenda is expensive.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Funding the Democrat agenda is expensive.

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[BoyNextDoor]

So with the WH, Senate, House, 36 governors, GOP veto-proof majority in 17 of them, a GOP takeover of the judiciary and a Dem loss of over a thousand legislative seats in the states, how can you possibly make an assertion about "Funding the Democrat agenda is expensive." ?

What is being funded are asinine tax expenditures. For example - $137M in tax payments to Amazon. Or like last year, 15 profitable corporations, including AFLAC, Eli Lilly, Metlife, Prudential Financial, and Molson Coors also paid nothing in federal income taxes after posting a combined $24.5 billion in profits. And that was before the most recent changes in tax law law slashing corporate taxes.

What is being funded is corporate welfare and wealth transfer to the 0.01%.

Your tired assertions are what got us here and are a demonstrable lie.

 

[Hypoxia]

So with the WH, Senate, House, 36 governors, GOP veto-proof majority in 17 of them, a GOP takeover of the judiciary and a Dem loss of over a thousand legislative seats in the states, how can you possibly make an assertion about "Funding the Democrat agenda is expensive." ?

Fucktards and liars have trouble with reality. Sad.

I blame hormones in their McFood, Ramen, and frozen pizzas. They'll differ and claim that fluoridated water is the culprit so they drink only the distilled stuff and have horrible dental work because fluoride prevents cavities. That toothless skag you see is a crack head or a Gup. Or both.

 

[WoundedKnee]

You make a simplistic argument.
One might point out that Democrats are doing everything they can in the House to make sure that no budget can pass so that they can continue to force continuing spending resolutions in which lots of goodies are handed out just to get votes. It's very cynical, it's very dysfunctional and, yes, it is something that is a true threat to the future of this nation, but nobody in office now will be around for the day of reckoning; they have no skin in the game.
As for governorships and all the other groups you mention, when it comes to the national budget, that is meaningless, purely emotional rhetoric and is only a measure of the distaste people have come to have for the Progressive wing of the Democrat Party which is not only radical but calls the shots and pulls the party ever leftwards. Now, for a true measure of how much better the Democrats are than the Republicans when it comes to managing large budgets and providing services to its citizens, one need only look to those metropolitan areas and states which they have turned into bastions of one-party rule.

Now, as far as blaming President Trump for all of this (and I understand we are, to be patriotic Americans duty bound in loathing the man for his crudeness, tweeting and talking about grabbing pussy just as much as when President Obama was in office, we were to love and adore his grace, charm and superior intellect), then would it be fair to say that blame should be laid at Obama's feet for his adding record amounts of debt? or maybe he was just some sort of helpless bystander, hands tied, gun to head and forced to spend hand over fist by the Congress...

 

[WoundedKnee]

$515 billion - $218 billion = $190 billion


According to the CBO, what does this represent?

 

[Admiral_Ackbar]

$515 billion - $218 billion = $190 billion


According to the CBO, what does this represent?

I'm sure you'll be more than happy to tell us

 

[JohnnySavage]

You make a simplistic argument.
One might point out that Democrats are doing everything they can in the House to make sure that no budget can pass so that they can continue to force continuing spending resolutions in which lots of goodies are handed out just to get votes. It's very cynical, it's very dysfunctional and, yes, it is something that is a true threat to the future of this nation, but nobody in office now will be around for the day of reckoning; they have no skin in the game.
As for governorships and all the other groups you mention, when it comes to the national budget, that is meaningless, purely emotional rhetoric and is only a measure of the distaste people have come to have for the Progressive wing of the Democrat Party which is not only radical but calls the shots and pulls the party ever leftwards. Now, for a true measure of how much better the Democrats are than the Republicans when it comes to managing large budgets and providing services to its citizens, one need only look to those metropolitan areas and states which they have turned into bastions of one-party rule.

Now, as far as blaming President Trump for all of this (and I understand we are, to be patriotic Americans duty bound in loathing the man for his crudeness, tweeting and talking about grabbing pussy just as much as when President Obama was in office, we were to love and adore his grace, charm and superior intellect), then would it be fair to say that blame should be laid at Obama's feet for his adding record amounts of debt? or maybe he was just some sort of helpless bystander, hands tied, gun to head and forced to spend hand over fist by the Congress...

All spending is done by appropriation. A budget just lays out a spending outline but doesn't actually authorize any spending. That's why Clinton had a "balanced budget" but still had a deficit.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

So with the WH, Senate, House, 36 governors, GOP veto-proof majority in 17 of them, a GOP takeover of the judiciary and a Dem loss of over a thousand legislative seats in the states, how can you possibly make an assertion about "Funding the Democrat agenda is expensive." ?

What is being funded are asinine tax expenditures. For example - $137M in tax payments to Amazon. Or like last year, 15 profitable corporations, including AFLAC, Eli Lilly, Metlife, Prudential Financial, and Molson Coors also paid nothing in federal income taxes after posting a combined $24.5 billion in profits. And that was before the most recent changes in tax law law slashing corporate taxes.

What is being funded is corporate welfare and wealth transfer to the 0.01%.

Your tired assertions are what got us here and are a demonstrable lie.

Why are you so concerned with that now? After we've been raising this glass 'budget' ceiling over and over and over for how many administrations?

This current administration absorbed an earth shattering Trillions of dollars in debt no small thanks to Odumba and his little sheep.

Why should the US gov't have to borrow money in the 1st damned place?

 

[adrina]

So it's not Trump's fault, but it is Obama's fault but it's not Bush's fault.

There is a definitive pattern here.

 

[WoundedKnee]

The pattern is that you don't read with comprehension.

 

[Rightguide]

So with the WH, Senate, House, 36 governors, GOP veto-proof majority in 17 of them, a GOP takeover of the judiciary and a Dem loss of over a thousand legislative seats in the states, how can you possibly make an assertion about "Funding the Democrat agenda is expensive." ?

What is being funded are asinine tax expenditures. For example - $137M in tax payments to Amazon. Or like last year, 15 profitable corporations, including AFLAC, Eli Lilly, Metlife, Prudential Financial, and Molson Coors also paid nothing in federal income taxes after posting a combined $24.5 billion in profits. And that was before the most recent changes in tax law law slashing corporate taxes.

What is being funded is corporate welfare and wealth transfer to the 0.01%.

Your tired assertions are what got us here and are a demonstrable lie.

Your tired ignorance and partisan hate is your problem.

When you see 60 Republican votes in the Senate you can say the Republicans control the Congress. Under present senate rules 9 Senate Democrats can frustrate the efforts of the entire House of Representatives, the majority party in the Senate, and the President.

The federal government is collecting historic record revenues but still expected to run 985 billion in deficits for next year. When Democrats lose they still win.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

So it's not Trump's fault, but it is Obama's fault but it's not Bush's fault.

There is a definitive pattern here.

It became blurred some time after/during Bush Sr.. Obama put a Democrat party spin on it.

 

[trysail]

"If something can't go on forever, it won't."

-Herbert Stein
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[adrina]

The pattern is that you don't read with comprehension.

Of course that is the problem.

It became blurred some time after/during Bush Sr.. Obama put a Democrat party spin on it.

Obama was far more moderate than he really ever gets "credit" for.

I think you really should look back to Reagan for the spend but don't tax policy beginnings.

 

[richard_daily]

Your tired ignorance and partisan hate is your problem.

When you see 60 Republican votes in the Senate you can say the Republicans control the Congress. Under present senate rules 9 Senate Democrats can frustrate the efforts of the entire House of Representatives, the majority party in the Senate, and the President.

The federal government is collecting historic record revenues but still expected to run 985 billion in deficits for next year. When Democrats lose they still win.

So much for that "personal accountability" BS that wingnuts always push on other people.