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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP plans to increase the debt by $10 trillion over next 10 years!
These are the deficit hawks, who shut down the government TWICE because they wanted concessions in the budget so as not to raise the deficit. But get them in power and all that hawkishness goes right out the window!
See:
http://thedailybanter.com/2017/01/senate-republicans-just-voted-to-add-10-trillion/
http://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HEN17065.pdf
And every single Republican voted for this budget except for Rand Paul. These people have no soul, no morals, no feeling of responsibility to themselves, their constituents, or their country.
unblock
(52,253 posts)They've proven themselves to loooooove deficits ever since reagan.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)We actually added about $10.4 trillion to the nationsl debt in just the last 8 years.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)They don't care about anything or anyone. It is only about how they can enrich themselves.
moondust
(19,993 posts)millions of Americans either don't see it or don't care about it even though it's been clear as day for decades.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)California_Republic
(1,826 posts)Maybe the intend to bankrupt the country forcing the sale of public land so the rich can have their ranches in Yosemite.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)so they blame Clinton and will blame Obama. It is a consistent pattern. They have brainwashed their non thinking base into thinking that the Democratic party is the party of wasteful spending.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)By the time he & Bush I were done, it was $220 billion.
IOKIRDI
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)amounts of money and cutting taxes for the wealthy; 10 trillion will never be enough.