Comment by macintux
14 hours ago
> since Bush nearly doubled the size of the Federal Government and blew up our finances with simultaneous tax cuts + massive spending expansion
We were 10 years from paying off the national debt when Clinton left office. 10 years!
> We were 10 years from paying off the national debt when Clinton left office. 10 years!
To be fair, if the US government had continued paying off the debt, the only way the (global) books would've balanced would've been for the US populace and businesses to take on waaaaayyyyyy more debt. Not sure if that would've been better.
(For a much better explanation of this, read Trade Wars are Class Wars).
What would job numbers look like if the federal government wasn't doubled?
I say this as someone who thinks Bush was an absolute idiot and would love to see the government shrunk.
TSA is basically a jobs program, what happens if we get rid of it?