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House GOP To Run on Reducing National Debt
September 13, 2019 at 1:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/13/house-gop-to-run-on-reducing-national-debt/
"SNIP.....
House Republicans plan to run on tried-and-true issues in 2020: repealing Obamacare and reducing the national debt, even though the GOP fell short of both goals the last time the party had full control of Washington, Bloomberg reports.
Said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarth: The first thing we would do is make sure our debt is taken care of.
......SNIP"
Their point is we can't afford biden care or climate mitigation or any other democratic idea. They will repeat and repeat it. "We are too poor". Same way they decertified unions.Lies.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)How are they going to bullshit that?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Their dwindling base will suck it up, the sane Americans will know right away it's not the truth.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)All part of the world wide all powerful liberal conspiracy against real Muricans?
JHB
(37,161 posts)It's been pretty much standard operating procedure since the 90s.
The last wheezing gasp of actual concern about deficits by a Republican in power was GHWB signing a feeble reform of the unsustainable 1986 tax cuts.
The people who now completely control the Republican party are the ones who crucified him for it.
TheFarseer
(9,326 posts)And he says its OK to vastly overspend on the military because defense is a legitimate function of the government and school for illegal immigrants and free health care for drug addicts is not. Anyway, thats what he says.
unblock
(52,317 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)and they will blame Democrats for trump's debt.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)CDerekGo
(507 posts)Jeez, GOP has managed to create the ALL-TIME high National Debt with this Administration, and NOW all of a sudden, reducing it is a concern? I can see they're already preparing for a Democratic takeover of House, Senate and White House. They have their 'talking points' already lined up. Let's certainly hope that the Reporters who have the microphone (Fux Noise doesn't count) will have the cojones to ask about the reason why this Nation has the debt it currently has when the GOP starts spewing their nonsense.
Cosmocat
(14,572 posts)nm
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Cut ACA healthcare, medicare, SSI, food stamps, housing assistance, etc
But cut the war machine or raise taxes on the rich? No way!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The clarion call is now going to trumpet the need to cut everybody off of everything they can because those are useless expenditures. That is an obvious and typical cycle and the deficit becomes a ruse and a tool that they utilize after increasing it.
This time though, the situation is far more dire and at the level of a major crises brewing, so the services and programs really need to be expanded and increased just to maintain at least a semblence of societal order and functional structure since we have many 3rd-World realities emerging around us.
The cuts they are going to wield their barbaric axe at are not going to be as easy to justify or enact because of that. Add to that the relentless sucking sound of increasingly unequal distribution of wealth and, hopefully, more people will wake up to the potential of an impending Feudalism at hand.
There have been estimates that, if the wealthy and corporations continue the current trend of profit and acquisition of wealth, resources and property, they could literally own everything globally within a few decades. That should be a sobering thought and it does play into reasons for supporting the commons and well being of the population in general.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Excess military gear is being sold to PDs around the country. We aren't that far from a military fascist state.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Response to applegrove (Original post)
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KPN
(15,650 posts)set of talking points that make the truth painfully obvious. Who the hell does that for the Democratic Party?
CanonRay
(14,113 posts)How many times can they use the same old bag of tricks
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)A very funny man, quick thinker. And such a patriot.
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keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Donald campaigned/ran for Prez in 2000
Trump focused his campaign on the issues of fair trade, eliminating the national debt, and achieving universal healthcare as outlined in the campaign companion piece The America We Deserve, released in January 2000. He named media proprietor Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate and said he would instantly marry his girlfriend, Melania Knauss, to make her First Lady.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Donald recommended defaulting on the national debt.
Negotiating with the creditors to take less money.
Dont forget that much of Americas debt is owned by Americans, not just the Chinese and other foreigners .
Donald Trump's Glorious Threat To Default On The National Debt Is Just The Conventional Wisdom
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/05/07/donald-trumps-glorious-threat-to-default-on-the-national-debt-is-just-the-conventional-wisdom/#59ab980ca367
doc03
(35,364 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)wiggs
(7,817 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)Since, you know, the national debt is only a concern when a Democrat is president.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)1. they delivered a tax cut. voters like tax cuts, even if they wind up paying more. it sticks it to the gubmint, and people hate gubmint.
2. the debt is growing. this is obviously the fault of tax-and-spend libtard soshlysts, and the only solution is to cut "waste".
it's a pretty easy sell; their internal polling and focus groups must tell them it will.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)this is the United States of Amnesia. Unfortunately, they still haven't found a cure for that.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)and one that any Democratic candidate can beat them over the head for with nothing but their own votes for Trump bailouts and irresponsible tax cuts.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Some voters are gullible. They count on it.
lame54
(35,321 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Prosper
(761 posts)goods and services investing and the national debt will disappear with the resulting rises in GDP and income tax revenue . Poverty is a choice forced on the working class by big money refusing to work.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Which is how they keep getting elected.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)ooky
(8,929 posts)What else is new?
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)LOL!!! That's rich. Same shit, different year. It's sad and pathetic that they pull this same stunt every time they take power, and even more sad and pathetic that Americans keep falling for it. Every. Fucking. Time.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)When will you republicans do that fiscal responsibility thing that you only preach but refuse to practice?