06-14-2020, 03:34 PM
You know who, a couple of years ago: wrote:
"[Balancing the federal budget] can be done. ... It will take place and it will go relatively quickly. ... If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing ... you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country."
Yeah, that didn’t go so well.
The US gross national debt – the total of all Treasury securities outstanding – jumped by $1 trillion over the past five weeks, from May 4 through June 8, and by $2.5 trillion for the 11 weeks since March 23.
No, not (all) his fault, though the trillion-dollar corporate giveaway that was going to “supercharge our economy” (remember that?) didn’t help...and it’s currently probably unavoidable, to keep the whole thing from imploding under the Orange Menace.
But then I hear Deplorables going on about how He keeps his promises and He gets things done.
Is this what they mean?