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More political games.Preparing to ‘play chicken’ with default: Understanding Republicans’ ‘debt limit terror’
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More political games.Preparing to ‘play chicken’ with default: Understanding Republicans’ ‘debt limit terror’
Tune in tomorrow when Biden claims credit for clocks striking noon, high tide, and the McRib sandwich return.Biden didn't "add" shit. The jobs were already there and people came back to them after the pandemic receded.
Coherent English, please.It's just politics of the way Republican have their way.
Democrat marxism is financial cannibalism.even Nostradamus sezs it'll end badly......
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STFU and worry about your own shithole country.The whole "debt ceiling authorization" is just political theatre: Full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. It's just an excuse to make reasonable sounding speeches about the national debt and play politics but the real discussions about cutting spending never ever happen.
Budget talks come around and the Republicans ALWAYS want to increase spending, especially pork barrel for big corporatins, and for the military. Republicans never want to make any meaningful cuts, except for social spending, or ANYTHING which puts money in the pockets of low income Americans.
It's time to end pointless bullshit like the debt ceiling votes, and start looking at meaningful change to government finances, and that includes raising taxes to pay as you go instead of spending your great grandchildren's money, and giving tax cuts to billionaires.
One way to reduce the deficit is to increase revenues. Your tax codes need balancing. Reaganomics is destroying the middle class, more of whom are falling into poverty than are rising to wealth. 80% of the nation's wealth cannot continue to flow to the top, if your nation is to survive.
The USA continues to operate under the same tax, labour and social spending polices that turned all of South American into a continent of second and third world nations.
What did Trump do to lose jobs, what did Biden do to create jobs? That is as stupid for saying Trump was responsible for low gas prices and Biden is responsible for the highest gas prices ever. P
As a small biz owner my opinion isWhat did Trump do to lose jobs???? The list is truly endless, but let's start with his failed covid response:
1. Trump glad handed all sorts of money to big corporations under the Payroll Protection Act, but NOTHING to people who didn't work for large corporations. If not for Nancy Pelosi refusing to give corporations any more money until American workers received assistance, people who work for small companies, got nothing.
2. When all of the business districts closed their office buildings and people started working from home, all of the small support services lost business. Coffee shops, courier services, dry cleaners, retail stores. The big chains had PPP. The independents had no assistance.
A cafe owner friend asked her landlord for a break on her rent since business was off by 70%, and he told her he had bills and a mortgage to pay too.
2. Without income, the 71% of American workers who had no PPP wages or enhanced unemployment benefits stopped spending money on non-essentials, and small mom and pop businesses closed, because they had no customers. Big corporations got themselves named "essential services" to stay open. Small businesses tried to hold on, but many closed and the jobs they provided were lost.
As a result, millions of Americans fell into poverty.
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Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death | Robert Reich
No other advanced nation denies healthcare and work protections, or loosens lockdown while fatalities mountwww.theguardian.com
THAT'S how Trump killed jobs.
3. Biden put money in the hands of families with the American Rescue Plan, and lifted millions out of poverty, and the pent up demand in travel, leisure, live, in person shopping and events. When people returned to buying products and services because they were no longer in poverty and debt, it created jobs.
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Supplemental Poverty Measure That Accounts For Additional Government Benefits Lowest on Record at 7.8%
The 2021 U.S. official poverty rate of 11.6% was not statistically different from 2020 but the Supplemental Poverty Measure at 7.8% was lowest on record.www.census.gov
4. Then there are all the construction jobs rebuilding roads, bridges, and crumbling municipal infrastructure. All the things Trump promised to do but never ever started.
The freebies like free rent, unemployment for graffiti artists and street mimes, food stamps etc were just a GIFT FROM THE DEEP STATE thanking all of their Corporate controlled leftists for handing all 3 branches of power to them. The NETWORK ( Deep State) can now proceed with their Great Reset in earnest now that Trump is out of their way. Dont believe they exist,,,,Read Tragedy and Hope by Quigley.The $4 plus trillion was pushed into the economy by both sides, not just Biden, add to that millions of renters not having to pay rent, unemployment for all, factories closing to kill the supply, it all contributed to inflation.
The brief span Trump was in gave people the ability to get a FACTORY JOB WITHOUT HAVING TO KNOW SOMEBODY ! You did not have to have a friend or family to get you an application to get in .. The last time you could walk into a plant and get hired was before Vietnam war ended. But no problem as most young people today are too important to waste their lives as a "WAGE SLAVE".What did Trump do to lose jobs???? The list is truly endless, but let's start with his failed covid response:
1. Trump glad handed all sorts of money to big corporations under the Payroll Protection Act, but NOTHING to people who didn't work for large corporations. If not for Nancy Pelosi refusing to give corporations any more money until American workers received assistance, people who work for small companies, got nothing.
2. When all of the business districts closed their office buildings and people started working from home, all of the small support services lost business. Coffee shops, courier services, dry cleaners, retail stores. The big chains had PPP. The independents had no assistance.
A cafe owner friend asked her landlord for a break on her rent since business was off by 70%, and he told her he had bills and a mortgage to pay too.
2. Without income, the 71% of American workers who had no PPP wages or enhanced unemployment benefits stopped spending money on non-essentials, and small mom and pop businesses closed, because they had no customers. Big corporations got themselves named "essential services" to stay open. Small businesses tried to hold on, but many closed and the jobs they provided were lost.
As a result, millions of Americans fell into poverty.
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Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death | Robert Reich
No other advanced nation denies healthcare and work protections, or loosens lockdown while fatalities mountwww.theguardian.com
THAT'S how Trump killed jobs.
3. Biden put money in the hands of families with the American Rescue Plan, and lifted millions out of poverty, and the pent up demand in travel, leisure, live, in person shopping and events. When people returned to buying products and services because they were no longer in poverty and debt, it created jobs.
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Supplemental Poverty Measure That Accounts For Additional Government Benefits Lowest on Record at 7.8%
The 2021 U.S. official poverty rate of 11.6% was not statistically different from 2020 but the Supplemental Poverty Measure at 7.8% was lowest on record.www.census.gov
4. Then there are all the construction jobs rebuilding roads, bridges, and crumbling municipal infrastructure. All the things Trump promised to do but never ever started.
^ assumes a “fact”‘which isn’t true.Why are Republicans only concerned with the debt limit when Democrats are President?
Democrat marxism is financial cannibalism.
^ assumes a “fact”‘which isn’t true.
Assumes a fact that is most definitely true. Where were all of these "concerned Republicans" when Trump was cutting taxes for billionaires, and putting it on the national credit card?
NO taxes should ever be cut when the nation is booming, unless the budget is balanced. The Republican Party since Ronald Reagan has been the most fiscally irrespnsible political party in world history, crashing the American economy 3 times. All of the tax cuts were paid for with ever increasing federal deficits, and every one of them ended with an economic crash.
Yet to hear Republicans talk, they're the party of fiscal responsibility. And fools like you parrot that lie.
Balance the budget....Problem solved.Preparing to ‘play chicken’ with default: Understanding Republicans’ ‘debt limit terror’
The United States is the only major industrial nation with a debt ceiling. America’s debt ceiling, moreover, applies only to budgetary appropriations that have already been made; it has no impact on future spending or borrowing. Indeed, as one legal scholar has argued, since legislation passed by Congress and signed by the president implicitly authorizes the U.S. Treasury to spend the money necessary to implement it, a separate requirement to increase the accrued debt creates the possibility of default, and may therefore be unconstitutional.
In any event, although debates about the national debt have become increasingly partisan, Congress and the president have agreed to increase the debt ceiling over 100 times since World War II. The debt limit has also been “suspended” — a distinction, made for political reasons, without a substantive difference — seven times. The debt ceiling was raised three times while Donald Trump was President. In 2019, when Congress suspended the debt ceiling until July 2021, Trump exulted that the agreement was “phenomenal.” The ceiling has been raised twice with Joe Biden in the White House.
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Preparing to ‘play chicken’ with default: Understanding Republicans’ ‘debt limit terror’
Moody’s has estimated default could result in a 4 percent drop in GDP, 9 percent unemployment and a $15 trillion loss in household wealth.thehill.com
We can't worry about the debt, Biden has one more time to raise the debt. If if's good for tramp why not make it good for Biden.
Assumes a fact that is most definitely true.
He wasn’t cutting taxes for billionaire. Your trite claims aren’t persuasive when based on your lies. And it was Congress that authorized spending and more debt. Not Trump.Where were all of these "concerned Republicans" when Trump was cutting taxes for billionaires, and putting it on the national credit card?
No taxes should exist at all except as necessary for the limited purposes of our Constitutional republic. Refer to the enumerated powers found in our Constitution.NO taxes should ever be cut when the nation is booming, unless the budget is balanced.
The Republican Party since Ronald Reagan has been the most fiscally irrespnsible political party in world history, crashing the American economy 3 times.
Your confusion is not buttressed by repeating yourself.All of the tax cuts were paid for with ever increasing federal deficits, and every one of them ended with an economic crash.
Yet to hear Republicans talk, they're the party of fiscal responsibility. And fools like you parrot that lie.
I like your succinct reply.No, taxes should always be cut. It’s our worthless govt that needs to do without. Screw them.
Weren't you moonbats supposed to be different?Why was raising the debt limit BEFORE Covid necessary?
Why was Trump running trillion dollar deficits BEFORE COVID?
The problem is not the debt limit. The problem is members of McCarthy's toddler caucus who don't understand it, don't know what it's for or the repurcussions of what will happen if it's not raised. This is what happens when a bunch of jerkoffs are elected to Congress & a Speaker who grabbed his ankles for a slew of halfwits.We are working towards the fiscal madness of Japan... whose debt/GDP is more than double ours.
Japan almost exclusively depends on China for investment profits, otherwise no one in Japan would have any money.
The problem is not the debt limit. The problem is members of McCarthy's toddler caucus who don't understand it, don't know what it's for or the repurcussions of what will happen if it's not raised. This is what happens when a bunch of jerkoffs are elected to Congress & a Speaker who grabbed his ankles for a slew of halfwits.