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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
all presidents want to balance the budget, Obama said the same thing. But when put in these positions they get eyes on the real number and the real problems, some that are not known and run deeper and they can't get it done all the same. This problem is bigger than any one man or women and will take decades to correct. It's like a candidate saying they want to fix the environment... well i guess they say that shit too, but it's an issue that can never be fixed by one person, one term, or even two. They need to take steps forward with those, sure, but a focus on the problems that CAN be resolved today and in their reach instead would be more important.
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I heard identical thoughts in the late 80s, when reagan ran up the debt to 4 trillion, & people said it will take decades, is complicated etc.
as soon as a GOP congress was elected in the 90s, the budget was balanced within a couple years.
sadly the GOP abandoned fiscal prudence in the name of free wheeling spending during the bush years. as a result, the tea party was born. out-of-control spending is the key tea party plank.
donald trump is the leader of this fringe & embodies everything about the tea-baggers. thats why the establishment hates him, bottom line. he threatens their systematic looting of the federal treasury by various special interests, resulting in the debt. well his rhetoric is threatening. whether he will clean up the lobbying mess is an open question, probably not.
he will balance the budget. the liberals & the media shills will whine its on the backs of the poor. the usual boilerplate they always hurl when someone wants to spend only what comes in.
