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In reply to the discussion: The overwhelming National debt is on purpose. [View all]Blue Full Moon
(3,731 posts)24. 100% the get the rot out reset.
The rot is the billionaires and the politicians on the take from them are creating this or allowing it to happen. There were articles before the presidential election about this very thing and installing scam crypto currency.
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Yes, it is overwhelming but these billionaires need productivity of others to feed their greed and that is why their
in2herbs
Tuesday
#1
they are counting on a bubble and the inevitable privatize profits and socialize losses
JT45242
14 hrs ago
#52
They've been doing this for 50 years. Ramped it up hard after 9/11 when nobody was looking n/t
Cheezoholic
Tuesday
#4
That's the Bain Capital / Blackrock / vulture capitalist model. Bleed them till they're dry
erronis
Tuesday
#5
I'd be in favor of MUCH more than just that...but its a mandatory first step.
Moostache
14 hrs ago
#47
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is what capitalism does.
BlueTsunami2018
Tuesday
#13
Most of the MAGAs don't even understand how they're being used by Chump and the other billionaires
FakeNoose
Tuesday
#15
Yep, perfect storm fot these rapists traitors to destroy everything American.
bluestarone
11 hrs ago
#60
YUP, ABSOLUTELY "RIGHT"! It's their secret long-term plan to wreck "socialist" safety net programs,
Jack Valentino
Tuesday
#20
There will be no other choice than to enact extreme taxation policies on the billionaires and if they try to leave the
ChicagoTeamster
Tuesday
#26
In 2010 the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 set up a trigger mechanism for automatic mandatory
summer_in_TX
Yesterday
#32
So just spend 80 billion more taxpayer dollars on ice. We're at what 250 billion?
Akakoji
16 hrs ago
#42
Yep and they have done this for decades and decades. Break it & say "gov't doesn't work"
themaguffin
14 hrs ago
#46