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The budget Deficit has increased under Republicans and decreased under Democrats consistently for decades.
How you can still think Republicans save you money is beyond insane. No child left behind really did a number on the populace.
Trump R -$6.612 trillion
Obama D -$6.781 trillion
Bush R -$3.293 trillion
Clinton D +$63 billion
Bush R -$1.036 trillion
Reagan R -$1.412 trillion
Carter D -$253 billion
Ford R -$181 billion
Nixon R -$70 billion
Johnson D -$36 billion
Kennedy D -$18 billion
Eisenhower R -$15 billion
Truman D -$5 billion
Roosevelt D -$194 billion
Hoover R -$5 billion
Is like to point out that most of Obama's increase in budget was pushed through under Bush (because budgets are passed the prior year). And he brought it down from that starting point over his two terms. Trump immediately jacked it back up from what he inherited, and Biden decreased it again.
You can make excuses for every president it's always the guy before them, but the numbers don't show a decline in deficit for Democrat presidents.
Oh yeah, the party of fiscal responsibility who is now trying to pass a progressive 4,5 billions tax cut for the wealthiest part of society. Who knows when these missing funds for the government will show up in its administrative books???
You must be so wise in the way of the finances, please (not) teach us master
Try Looking at an actual graph that does more than an entire term distilled into one number... Some of those don't even look accurate. You might learn something
The numbers must be wrong since they go against your preconceived notions.
There's those reading comprehension skills again.
You claimed the numbers I provided don't look accurate and more granular numbers will prove your point but don't provide any. Seems like you're saying the numbers must be wrong but can't provide any data to back that claim. That almost sounds like you have no data and are going off your preconceived notions.
Not a single iota of common sense exists in this administration. They're all crooks and conmen. It's astonishing a noncitizen has fallen for such an obvious grift while not being the target of their propoganda. That takes an extra special kind of gullible
"the left" has no default response to any costs saving.
"Noooooooo" as a reply comes only when a destruction of the modern state is acted masking it as "cost saving".
It's like a doctor prescribing suicide to solve a patient illness. It works, the illness is gone, but the patient is not feeling well afterwards.
But this is too much of a complex reasoning for a libertarian to understand, I get that. Oh well, back to you play-doh eating contest you go
Sorry, I didn't realize that funding musicals in Ireland was core to the functioning of the American government. My bad!
/s in case you couldn't tell.
It's called soft power. Basically an investment in presenting the best part of your culture to others hoping that it will attract people to your ideals and idea of society to ease collaboration with other peoples.
But you do understand the reasoning behind such an investment with your superior intellect, I'm sure.
And I'm also sure that you do understand that where an investment is missing others will provide that investment. Promoting their culture in lieu of others.
I'm putting /s explicitly because I'm not sure you'd get my sarcasm, I don't think you could understand these subtle reasonings
And how, pray tell, does funding a Musical in Ireland accomplish that?
Developing relationships through common cultural references. You can mainly use culture as a media to expand your influence in places where you already have a hold of the situation... In other places where you still have have to build your influence, and maybe an infrastructure, you invest in building roads and airports. Which is what China is doing with the "Road and Belt initiative" in many developing nations. If you think freezing foreign aid programs will help America sustain its image around the world you don't understand how foreign policy works. Exactly like Donald Trump and his cronies.
Amazing how you can't have a thought deeper than the shallowest of puddles, have you ever thought about being observed by medical professionals?