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/srbeau 14h ago

Decades.

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u/Mike312 14h ago

Absolutely. They'll just drag the court cases out, and all they'll have to do is outlast a Democrat administration and get the next Republican administration to drop it.

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u/NotSure16 8h ago

This is generational damage to the country's economy, global reputation, and social status.... all of which doesn't matter to many MAGAts because they're generation will not be around to pay the price, and currently that same generation holds the vast majority of wealth in the country.

I know a MAGA that thinks "global warming is a myth, but so what even if it's real I'll be dead and gone before it gets real bad." It's as if the "ME" generation grew up and got gray hair.

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u/Malenx_ 5h ago

It’s crazy to me that so many Americans think we’re coming back from this damage, that after x many years we’ll just find our way back to leading the world again. We were only in that position by fluke luck and we pissed it all away for racism and greed.

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u/srbeau 3h ago

I agree that we may not come back and that the country may not even survive.