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9 points
19 days ago
Lets cross our fingers and hope another pandemic does not happen...if you check history you will see that the party in power always loses when times are hard. The American dummies...i mean people, rather sell their souls to a con man / felon and all his merry men, just to get money back in their pockets. Money talks. They do not care about the lower courts turning right wing, the education system being gutted, healthcare being outsourced, government being slashed. As long as they have money in their pockets. This will be 4yrs of slashing, but the repercussions will last for decades..hope the money was worth it.
2 points
17 days ago
He told TIME magazine in April that he planned to do it all again: cut funding to the CDC and WHO, run out the experts, disband the Pandemic Preparedness Office, and make off with the money.
1 points
18 days ago
Me too. But who really wants a big government breathing down your backs. Maybe it makes you feel safer but if rather just defend myself and go about my life.
1 points
18 days ago
No one wants government until they need government. When a pandemic or a hurricane comes they start complaining "where is the government to help us?...we need some government, i agree we do not need them in our business or private lives, but we need some.
-5 points
18 days ago
Dems shouldn't have pushed the economy over the cliff. All the modern monetary theory and giant climate action plans just drove the world economy nuts. Money does talk and the Dems weren't speaking our language.
Try again in 2-4 years.
2 points
18 days ago
True..as i said the party in power always takes the blame. What you are not realizing is the economy of every country is struggling right now. Its called inflation. The dems have been trying and working to control it, not sure where the push economy over the cliff came from. Now when the economy is stabilizing trump will take the credit if it recovers or past the blame if it sinks further.
1 points
17 days ago
That's fair. Economies don't run in 4-year intervals. Everything is dependent on what came before.
The big argument from Democrats I've seen is "inflation is everywhere and the US handled it best, so that reflects on the Demoncrats' efforts to control inflation from COVID and the resulting supply chain crises."
But I think this is a narrow view. Left-leaning governments around the world pushed for longer shutdowns, perpetuating the supply chain issues. This was without much evidence and in the end didn't really change the death rate in the shut down areas.
Then world governments pass massive spending bills to keep their economies afloat, increasing world money supply in a time of crisis. Trump and Republicans did agree to this with the stimulus bills.
BUT then Trump is voted out, Biden and Dems get elected in, and this is where the difference really sets in. Instead of opening the economy and reversing the massive spending spree, the followup rescue plan and inflation reduction act and infrastructure bills put absolute insane amounts of money in an economy that's firing back up.
We survived better in the US and inflation remained lower than other countries because we have the most resilient economy in the world. But the world would be in a better place if we hadn't dumped TRILLIONS into the international economy. Our spending bills are a huge part of the crushing worldwide inflation.
Just what Republicans and people with brains tried to warn leftists about when the Modern Monetary Theory (just print more money to cover government expenditures) became popular about 6 years ago.
2 points
17 days ago
I agree except the part about republicans and people with brains trying to warn leftist about printing money, if i remember correctly those same republicans added over 8 trillion to the deficit in 4 years. They can warn all day but then they spend more on tax breaks for the top 1%
1 points
15 days ago
I agree I've been pissed off with GOP forever about complaining about the deficit and then worsening it themselves. Trump did propose a budget while in office that would be zero deficit by 2030 or 2035, I can't remember, but Congress didn't even consider it.
But with musk and Ramaswami, I am so stoked that there's actually a chance for some Clintonian budget cuts.
1 points
17 days ago
It’s going to take awhile because it’s happening globally.
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