(11-17-2024, 10:37 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-17-2024, 10:14 AM)copycat Wrote: How much new spending has been added?  Often with the stroke of a pen, and I am not just talking about the Biden administration.  I am referring to all of them.  It is ridiculous that the US finances the world with money we don’t have.

We are confining this conversation to Trump's first year vs Trump's second year.  Trump did not introduce any significant new spending in his first year.  It went up automatically, again, due to the age of the population.

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(11-17-2024, 10:06 AM)Jag149 Wrote: I guess you liberals like it when the poverty rate goes up.

Actually I am a fan of Warren Buffet's suggestion.

"Warren Buffett quipped that he could end the deficit by passing "a law that says anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."

You're changing the subject to poverty rate now.  We were talking about a graph, the graph showed cumulative debt over GDP on the y axis and year on the x axis.
Didn't have anything to do with poverty rates.
Obviously it's bad when the poverty rate goes up.  But when you change the subject like that, I take it to mean you're conceding my point.  Thanks!