Hello Oneuli,
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Oneuli
I hadn't seen that. Thanks!
It reminds me of another video I saw where they asked people what they thought about the budget. For example, they'd ask if they thought we spent too little or too much of our budget on something like foreign humanitarian aid or support for the arts. Then they'd ask people what they thought would be an appropriate portion of the discretionary budget to spend on it. The amusing thing was that people had a tendency to provide radically inconsistent answers to the two linked questions. For example, they'd insist we spend too much on support for the arts in this country, and then say we should only be spending 5% of our discretionary budget on it, when in fact 5% would be VASTLY more than we actually spend. Or they'd say we spend too little on our military and that we should be spending a quarter of our discretionary budget on it, even when that's far less than we actually spend.
The thing that always gets me is how Republicans think the reason the government is always short is because it spends too much. But then when confronted with what they feel should be cut back, they can't precisely name a program or how much of it should be cut, and how they expect that to make the budget balance.
And after complaining about the debt during the entire skillfully guided recovery from the Great Recession, (which happened to be during Obama's years so they naturally blamed the debt on him,) they go out and slash revenue with a big give-away tax cut for the rich which nearly doubles the deficit! And this after Trump campaigned by saying he would pay the debt completely off within 8 years. What a pile of stink! Now, not only will the debt NOT be paid off in 8 years, it will be vastly increased.
And here's the kicker. I have repeatedly asked Republicans how they expect to pay the debt down during a recession if we can't pay it down during an expanding economy. (NOW) Not one has ever even tried to answer that one.
What? Do they expect the economy to get any better?
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