What the devil did anyone expect? The damnable GOPe essentially gave the White Hut carte blanc on the checkbook.
This outcome was predicted, then, and it’s proving true, today.
One reason they don’t want trump in there is he will tell us what the debt is. It was last disclosed at the beginning of obamas last term. Before obamacare It’s probably well into the twenties. A guy with a family who takes two per year for eight years multi million dollar vacations at taxpayer expense. At someone else’s expense. Is not taking care of the budget nor the debt
It is likely very high
Not only is no one in Washington serious about reducing the debt - they don’t even have the desire to slow down the rate it’s increasing. The train is heading for the cliff and I don’t believe there’s anything that can stop it at this point.
It will be well over $20 Trillion by the time Barky is scheduled to leave office. Maybe over $21 Trillion.
Yes but Paul Ryan’s oil buddies got to ship their oil overseas,so it all evens out
Sure glad I spent the time, money and energy to get a Republican-controlled Congress in there!
I just knew they would set things right...
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.
It was noticeable since the national debt clock went from $18.1 trillion to now $19.2 trillion.
Obama and congress reported the deficit at $450 billion. They’ll blame the extra $500 billion o prior years just so they can say this year was only $450 billion, which is a lie.
From a related thread …
Once again, it’s time for "Federal Government Annual Budget 101,” the constitutionally limited power federal government's annual budget as the Founding States had intended for the budget to be understood.
Note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. This is evidenced by the excerpt below.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, based on the Court’s statement above, here is a rough estimate of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx Noise, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Completely out of control now. Country cannot last more than a few years. Already stopped filing taxes with US government. What is the point ?