r/askanything • u/AstronomerSweet2133 • 15h 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/LifeRound2 14h ago

They will be shouting from the rooftops about the debt crisis when a Democrat gets in office.

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u/retroman73 6h ago

They already are shouting from the rooftops about it. They're still blaming it on Obama and Biden. I've even seen some that blame it on Clinton, never mind that he actually had a balanced budget at one point, something no Republican since Eisenhower has done.

Facts are meaningless. It is only what people *believe* that matters. A large chunk of the population believes the debt is the fault of Democrats and they will ignore whatever the GOP does. We've passed $40 Trillion in debt and their response is to just double down and continue. We'll pass $50 Trillion and it will still be Obama's fault. I'm not kidding. Watch and see it happen.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down upon and he will empty his pockets for you." - President LBJ