Ah, Republicans. They make a huge deal about spending any time they are not in power and then spending like a drunk Sailor when in power.

Overseen by man with significant history of refusing to repay loans.

Sounds like there needs to be some sort of efficiency department set up

Good thing the fiscally responsible party is in power

I just saw a study that said if Trump continued on at this rate, he will be responsible for 55% of the national debt. And that was BEFORE the Iran War.

When we get these psychopaths out, and start to rebuild, we already know that they'll suddenly get fiscally conservative, and they'll pretend to be concerned about spending.

When that happens, just take theirs away. THEY are responsible for the debt, so if it bothers them so much, they should be the ones to make the sacrifice to pay it back.

Just for the sake of argument: It's possible to create gasoline from any hydrocarbon feedstock (wood, cow shit, OSB scraps, rice hulls, sugar) for about $12/gallon. At 42 gallons of gas/jet fuel/diesel/kerosene per barrel of oil, that's roughly $504 of finished product per barrel (@ $12/gal).

That means $50 billion would get you about 100 million barrels of synthesized oil. Since the US consumes about 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day we'd be able to synthesize 5/7ths of our oil consumption from waste biomass for that $50 billion per week. Food for thought.

For healthcare? Education? Can’t possibly imagine what …

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money.

They say anything to get into power. Literally anything. None of it matters and they know it.

interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year

If my finger-counting math is right ye yanks, on average (including children), are paying ~$250 a month just in interests... I ain't no economist but that seems like a lot.

Damn ... if only there was a department of government efficiency to stop insane and fiscally irresponsible shit like this.

Or ... we need a branch of government that "controls the purse" so crazy spending like this doesnt happen.

Trump has never paid his bills a day in his life.

He fucked over his own chauffeur, and thousands of his contractors and employees. He's declared bankruptcy something like eight times, leaving investors with nothing. He's gone to court over a thousand times; no other real estate developer has these problems. Interestingly, his mentor was Roy Cohn, who had the same issue of skipping bills (coincidentally I am sure).

So, long story short for libbies, Trump will buy a company named "American Fury MAGA USA Friends" and transfer all the country's debt to it, and THEN that company will declare a new feature he's devised, called "Supreme Bankruptcy" which cannot be overturned by the Supreme Court because it's Supreme, too.

Problem solved, in your face commies

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Related to this problem, our entire country's financial system is based on debt; we don't even control our own money. The FED is controlled by select appointed bankers, who practically all work for banks or are on the boards of banks and investment firms before and after their appointed terms.

The dollar is worth less every year for a reason, it's called profiteering. It's designed to collapse; with each collapse these same interests buy everything once prices are tanked. Then, they start the process again. Every year it gets exponentially worse because math is mean.

They don't even hide it.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fedexplained/who-we-are.htm

no wonder they had to slash all the departments, and not keep the extended subsidies for healthcare.

The Rothschild family and banks are delighted with the shit situation. They have the USA by the balls.

They have a plan: They'll borrow money to pay the debts and to spend on top of that.

Literally infinite money glitch

The US, like all governments, can simply create money. Unlike most commodities, modern currencies are gated only by the choice to do so. Just change the number in the computer. Trump can simply choose to create money and give it to himself. That's what he wants, which is why he's hounding the fed to reduce rates, so he can create more money. Then he just gives it to himself and his allies through some obvious scheme or direct it to his efforts, despite no congressional approval of the funds purpose. The massive increase in expenditures of the US government is just Trump printing money to give himself and his allies. It's insane to give someone like Trump control of a system whose only real barrier is a choice.

Those $2-mil missiles add up fast.