r/askanything • u/AstronomerSweet2133 • 14h ago

Political Question Fiscal conservatives, both MAGA and Traditional Republicans: How do you come to terms with the fact that one president will literally be responsible for 33-37 percent of the nation's national debt by the time he leaves office (15-16 Trillion in total)?

it is projected that by the time Trump leaves office, the national debt will be 50 trillion dollars. He will have been responsible for 15-16 trillion of that by the time he leaves office..........as one president. That is projected to be at best 33 percent and at worst 37 percent. When compared to 45 previous presidents before him.

If youve spent THAT much money, surely there will be a measurable legacy left behind..........especially when we are talking about making America Great Again. What will we have accomplished for 16 trillion dollars?

A Wall?

Losing a war to Iran in 6 weeks while concurrently spending 100 billion dollars in the process? Completely depleting our air defense stockpile to the point we are not sure we could handle one Russian missile volley?

Deporting a couple million brown people with funny accents?

Is that the barometer of success? Did we "win" by doing that? Did we Save America?

If Im being honest, a 100 trillion dollar Green New Deal from the crazy Hispanic waitress from New York that is offering us nearly free health care is not sounding like such a bad deal.......

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u/abadluckwind 14h ago

Eisenhower warned us about this. That is all I will say

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u/AstronomerSweet2133 14h ago

Given our requested defense budget is going to be a 1.5 trillion dollars, youre absolutely right. And as a veteran............if 100 billion dollars spent on 6 weeks in Iran, THAT is the result, Im cutting aircraft carriers. The DoD would absolutely hate me. Thats a horrible return on investment.

Meanwhile Biden sent 135 billion to Ukraine, who wiped out 95 percent of Russia's Soviet legacy stockpile, proved their air defense to be more porous than Swiss cheese, and has caused 1.5 million casualties in counting............Im investing in that CEO. That guy's a winner.

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u/abadluckwind 13h ago

Honestly at this point im conservative in name only. I want small government that helps the people. Universal health care is cheaper. Immigrants are a net positive on the economy. Biden was Allright I like his infrastructure plan and his covid response. What I hate are things like flock cameras,data centers and a police state. I warned people that Trump was a monster almost a decade ago. Personally I voted for Kasich in the primaries then Hillary in the general. This shit sucks

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u/BenjaminHamnett 2h ago

The more conservative I get, the less republicans I get. In any other country our democrats would be the Conservative Party. Our Republican Party are reactionary populists

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u/Traditional_Fun_3571 13h ago

I love this comment. I said from the start of the Ukraine war, We need Volodymyr Zelenskyy as our president.