Its what the gop always does. Republican in charge spending soars. Democrat in charge spending decreases. Its been that way as long as I've been alive.
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Longer than that, I bet. This report from EPIAction doesn't specifically mention spending increases and decreases, but all other economic indicators have been better under Democrats than they have under Republicans for at least 75 years.
Since 1949, there has been a Democratic advantage in the average performance of key macroeconomic indicators measuring economic health, including:
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth
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Job growth
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Unemployment rate
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Growth in inflation-adjusted wages
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Growth of market-based incomes per capita
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Inflation
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Interest rates
The US economy has performed better when the president of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican, almost regardless of how one measures performance…The superiority of economic performance under Democrats rather than Republicans is nearly ubiquitous: it holds almost regardless of how you define success. By many measures, the performance gap is startlingly large.
Spending and deficit going up is a staple of a Republican government.
"Fiscally Conservative"
They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
It's almost like cutting spending was never the actual plan, and they were more likely using that as a smokescreen for ideologically guided attacks on institutions they disagreed with.
I am shocked. Shocked! It's almost like they lied just to get more rich like greedy MFers...
But that can't be right. Right, MAGAts? Right, scumbags who didn't bother to vote?
Because it was always bullshit in the first place. I guess it’s well deserved for Americans because we prove it right all the time but the media really does assume we all have room temperature IQs and they just have no respect for us whatsoever
when is every media outlet going to stop playing along with this stupid "saving money" narrative? it was never about saving money, or efficiency, or literally anything any trumpistan official says it's about
shift the conversation around the fact that they are deliberately destroying the country, and maybe something productive can happen. this whole "hey waitaminute!?! they're nOt SAvInG aNy MoNeY!!!" is such a fucking waste of time
it's all theft baybay. this is a kleptocracy and a kakistocracy at the same time
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Imagine believing that fascism has anything to do with saving money.
This kind of credulous reporting is a huge part of why we have fascism.
Musks only intent, from the get go, wasnt cutting costs/saving money/fixing waste.
His only intent was to undermind, disarm, and dismantle the agencies that were either actively investigating him, or held power to do so.
My mom's been bitching about how she can't pay for her water bill because of immigrants. Meanwhile the city is just trying to play catch up on infrastructure that's been neglected for decades.
Her bill isn't going to get any cheaper, but hey, at least everyone gets to fear for their lives now.
"God damn immigrants made my local government not do its necessary maintenance and upgrades for over 20 years, making me have to pay 20 extra dollars a month! GODDAMN THEM!"
Pretty fucking much. I've been arguing with her about (I know it's a waste of time but here I am).
Her evidence:
- Some dude from the water company 10 years ago said her bills were high because of immigrants
- Some right wing fuckwad posted a video on rumble interviewing who the fuck knows who, in NYC (we don't live in NYC), saying that the government was paying for them to have hotels and food
Mine:
- 9 fucking audits of the water company's spending
- a report from the auditor general of the state examining the neglect of the water system
But hey, "we each get to have our own conclusion" so fuck me I guess.
I swear, ever since Obama won the presidency, I feel like the collective intelligence of the country plummeted, cause even the closet racists and "enlightened centrists" gave up any semblence of rationality to lean hard into the racism.. Which trump them came in and threw jet fuel on and lit with thermite.
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In his first term, Trump increased both the budget deficit and total outstanding debt with his unsustainable fiscal policy. Now, his antagonistic and erratic trade policy is raising Treasury yields. He and his political project are brewing the very debt crisis they keep fearmongering about. The solutions they contemplate, like currency devaluation, messing with the Federal Reserve, perpetual or century bonds and a partial default on repayment obligations to China, further erode trust in the global financial system that underpins American power.
Only far right politicians (and pundits) can get the numbers over 200% wrong and not just keep their job, but still be lauded as fucking folk heroes 🤦
Their voters seem to only care about what these politicians say, rather than what they actually do.
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They also fired so many IRS employees that they're projecting a 500Bn Revenue loss.
Less IRS to go after billionaires. Theyll implement AI to make sure all the poors are taxed though.
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So, they cut tons of services and research to give the money directly to DOGE and Elon. Cool.
Who's surprised by the guy responsible for a quarter of the deficit.
Debt. Deficit is year by year, debt is the cumulative amount. Trump create one quarter of the total debt of the US in his first 4 years.
Thank you. 🌠
Sieg Heiling Space Karen and Felon Drink Bleach are remarkable failures and idiots.
Increasing costs - all to very detrimental effect - with nothing but the spread of human misery to show for it.
So they stole it
Nobody in this kind of website will be at all surprised.
I would be screaming at liberal America that they've been duped and they need to mobilize if they want to still retire or have social security or medicaid or medicare...
But reddit and google have shadowbanned me across all their platforms for doing that. Four times now.
We're in the dark timeline guys, this doesn't end until there's news reports showing flames.
It's that damn military show they're preparing for his birthday
Well, that, and the unexpected uptick in deportations to fucking everywhere, Narnia included. It's expensive, shoving all those kids into a fucking dresser. They scream a lot, and the poor agents need lots of vacations to recover.
Additionally, burning most of the air traffic controllers at the stake probably doesn't have anything to do with a dozen mid air collisions on the daily. That's all free anyway, thank god.
And launching all the irs agents into that volcano? Yeah, we probably shouldn't have done that, but hey! Big Balls won $50 on a scratchy! That'll help offset!
And sucker punching every person, in every country that's ever bought or made anything outside murica? It was pretty funny, but that's gonna sting soon.
And we never made any fucking money on tourism, so it's fucking GREAT that nobody ever comes here now!
Which means all those people at the national parks were obsolete, so fucking dump them!
And disaster recovery? After a disaster? Sorry, we can't. You don't think Big Balls won on his first scratchy, do you? That's cute!
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