I voted for him to gut DC, yes. There wasn’t a fiscally conservative candidate to choose from. Rand was far and away the most fiscally conservative that ran, but he didn’t make it.
And yet you still voted for him. So you don't really care about deficits, you don't really care about the children, you don't care about small government. You are a low information voter who is sold on campaign slogans and not much else.
I voted for him to gut DC, yes. There wasn’t a fiscally conservative candidate to choose from. Rand was far and away the most fiscally conservative that ran, but he didn’t make it.
So, all this GOP talk about American Exceptionalism just means we're exceptionally incompetent?
Damned govt can't do anything right!
Where's that GIF of Grandpa Simpson yelling at the clouds when I need it?
Trump didn’t win because of fiscal conservatism. I’ve said earlier in the thread we haven’t been presented with anyone that’s fiscally conservative in decades if not longer. Clinton had promised, not ways to pay. Raise minimum wage (not a gov expenditure but will drive jobs offshore or automate so less tax revenue). Not raise taxes on middle class. Free college. Infrastructure spending (I agree with this one). How do we pay? The rich will pay it all (lol). Half the country doesn’t pay anything and we aren’t raising taxes on a chunk of what’s left. So pipe dreams, empty promises, and more debt.
So you're not a Republican but rather a Teahadist. And a very concerned one, too.
When it comes to government yes, we’re incompetent. American exceptionalism occurs when we get government out of the way. I have no idea how the political structure/election cycles in other countries work and maybe that’s why they are able to navigate these things better. Our government is run by politicians and politicians only care about raising money and winning, and that involves lots of pork and empty promises.
If you took literally any time to look into it Clinton’s policies were massively more fiscally responsible. You just let partisanship make up your mind.
Trump promised colossal fiscal irresponsibility and you voted for that. Because of that you have lost all ability to complain about fiscal responsibility of people you didn’t vote for.
Projecting GOP values & accomplishment onto everybody else. #Bothsides!
Clinton wasn’t massively more fiscally responsible. She promised more spending and only raising taxes on 1/5 the populace. You see her as such because she was your candidate, but the reality is she was a politician out there lying to win just like Trump.
Are you saying the Dems don’t promise pork for votes? And heir hands are somehow cleaner? Interesting..
This is ridiculous nonsense. She came out and explicitly stated how she would pay for her policies. You voted for the guy who made fantasy promises and promised total fiscal irresponsibility. Seriously, you have no room to talk. You voted for absolute, massive irresponsibility. No one should listen to your concerns because it’s clear you didn’t actually care about it.
If you vote in the future for actually fiscally responsible people I will believe you but at this point you have dug a deep, deep hole.
She came out and explicitly said she wouldn’t add a penny to the debt which is poppycock. She promised free college but little in the way of how to pay for it. It was nothing more than trying to counter Bernie. Empty promises so she could win. A politician.
So concerned for the Democrats!
Meanwhile, you refuse to acknowledge that tearing down the govt of the people will create a power vacuum that Wall St is eager to fill. That's why big money right wingers created the Teahad in the first place.
You voted for people who promised way worse and you know it. Again, on the day you refuse to vote for a Republican ever again I’ll consider your sincerity. Absent that your concern is selective and you know it.
Don’t be a hypocrite.
DC is a cesspool of people trying to line their pockets at the expense of the rest of us. It was time to burn it down, just wished he would have followed through.
How was Trump "way worse"? Lay out the campaign promises he said which were way worse. And I’m not going to refuse to vote for a Republican or Democrat ever again, why would I?
He said he was going to cut taxes and raise military spending without changing spending otherwise. It took almost no brain power to understand that would explode the deficit. Then he did it. Any rational person knew ahead of time that Trump was a debt monster. Clinton on the other hand had plans to pay for her programs.
You never actually cared about the debt. That’s obvious because you voted for trump.
Yeh, all those dedicated civil servants are just leeches & Deep State shitheads, obviously. Don't need any of them because benevolent Capitalism will provide in the Free market!
How was Trump "way worse"? Lay out the campaign promises he said which were way worse. And I’m not going to refuse to vote for a Republican or Democrat ever again, why would I?
He said he was going to cut taxes and raise military spending without changing spending otherwise. It took almost no brain power to understand that would explode the deficit. Then he did it. Any rational person knew ahead of time that Trump was a debt monster. Clinton on the other hand had plans to pay for her programs.
You never actually cared about the debt. That’s obvious because you voted for trump.
She didn’t lay out how she was going to pay for free college. That was tacked on to win because Bernie was sucking the air out of the room with his empty promises. She lied and said she wasn’t going to add a penny to the debt (but offered no spending cuts to achieve that). She’s a politician that wanted votes.
TPP - the US could have solidified its economic role in southeast asia and prevented, or at least stalled, china's massive political and economic growth in the region.
She didn’t lay out how she was going to pay for free college. That was tacked on to win because Bernie was sucking the air out of the room with his empty promises. She lied and said she wasn’t going to add a penny to the debt (but offered no spending cuts to achieve that). She’s a politician that wanted votes.
He said he was going to cut taxes and raise military spending without changing spending otherwise. It took almost no brain power to understand that would explode the deficit. Then he did it. Any rational person knew ahead of time that Trump was a debt monster. Clinton on the other hand had plans to pay for her programs.
You never actually cared about the debt. That’s obvious because you voted for trump.
You continue to demonstrate your ignorance on this subject.
https://www.thebalance.com/hillary-clinton-2016-economic-plan-3305767