Something that Ben Carson said caught my attention

[davidpdx]

Last edited Fri Aug 7, 2015, 11:11 PM - Edit history (1)

The quote is referring to Hillary Clinton, but when I was listening to him that's not who I was thinking about.

Here is the full quote:

Well just I happen to think believe people are not stupid. And the way I would come at it is to educate people. Help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems. You look at the national debt and how it's being drive up. If I was trying to destroy this country I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people drive the debt to the unsustainable level and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decrease our capacity as a military person and that is what she is doing.

Now look at just this part:

You look at the national debt and how it's being drive up. If I was trying to destroy this country I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people drive the debt to the unsustainable level and then step off the stage as a world leader....

Say the first name that comes to mind besides Clinton or Carson.....

Edit: Someone mentioned I may have left out a word, I tried to transcribe this from the Youtube video and so it is possible there could be small mistakes.

[think]

1. W

[rurallib]

2. W then Reagan

some day it would be nice to have such statements challenged

[davidpdx]

4. Well it was being held by Fox News

I wouldn't expect them to challenge anything that doesn't fit their narrative.

[leveymg]

3. I hope he's a better brain surgeon than economist.

The U.S. external debt level is relatively low, in large part because of some accounting tricks involving federal borrowing from the SS trust fund to offset public debt. So far, it's worked, and the rate at which the US borrows (the rate it pays out for its sovereign debt issues) is among the lowest in the world.

Here's the external debt levels and debt/GDP for the top 25 foreign borrowers (it's the last set of numbers -- % of GDP -- that really count): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

Rank Country External debt[2]
US dollars Date Per capita[3][4][5][6]
US dollars % of GDP[7][8][9]
1 United States 18,540,448,667,000 20 June 2015 58,437 106
2 United Kingdom 9,590,995,000,000 31 March 2014 160,158 406
3 France 5,750,152,000,000 31 March 2014 86,317 222
4 Germany 5,546,869,000,000 31 March 2014 68,720 145
5 Luxembourg[note 1] 3,472,282,000,000 31 March 2014 3,696,467 3,443
6 China 3,000,000,000,000 31 December 2013[10] 2,220.57 37.5
7 Japan 2,861,488,000,000 31 March 2014 24,000 60
8 Italy 2,651,413,000,000 31 March 2014 est. 43,621 124
9 Ireland 2,639,672,886,310[11] 30 September 2014 52,227 103
10 Netherlands 2,526,895,000,000 31 March 2014 226,503 316
11 Spain 2,305,648,000,000 31 March 2014 52,045 167
12 Switzerland 1,610,897,000,000 31 March 2014 154,063 229
13 Australia 1,395,638,000,000 31 March 2014 est. 52,596 95
14 Canada 1,337,445,000,000 31 March 2014 est. 29,625 92
15 Belgium 1,286,918,000,000 31 March 2014 113,603 266
16 Hong Kong 1,231,233,000,000 31 March 2014 est. 105,420 334
17 Sweden 1,145,785,000,000 31 March 2014 91,487 187
18 Austria 820,010,000,000 31 March 2014 90,128 200
19 Norway 737,118,000,000 31 March 2014 131,220 141
20 Russian Federation 599,819,000,000 31 March 2014 3,634 23
21 Denmark 593,221,000,000 31 March 2014 101,084 180
22 Portugal 548,800,000,000 30 June 2011 47,835 223
23 India 455,900,000,000 31 September 2014 est. 364 22.795
24 Brazil 428,300,000,000 31 December 2012 est. 1,608 15
25 South Korea 425,353,000,000 31 March 2014 est. 7,567

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[Dwayne Hicks]

5. Actually

He said "there is a progressive SECULAR movement". That part is very important.

[davidpdx]

6. Could be

I was trying to transcribe it from listening to it and that is difficult.