If the current CR continues Biden level spending, does that mean the BBB didn't cut spending?

Yes. If something can't go on forever, then it won't.

There is not a political path to avoid the eventual default of the federal government's financial obligations. And every chance Republicans have to prove this, they do.
To me , it seems to be the case
 
Oh OK. Great! So what year will we see spending be less than the year before?

Well I ran the numbers yesterday so if you rule out medicare and social security and interest on the debt the government did spend less after covid relief spending ended.

So there were a couple years.

Then you had Biden pass the Inflation Reduction Act.

That was the green new deal spending that would cost trillions of dollars if its not capped.

The Republicans voted to cap that.

The Republicans also cut the Obamacare subsidies.

Are you going to be able to cut Social security and Medicare when 80 million Americans are on it?

No thats not how democracy works those 80 million people won't vote for a government to take away their food and medicine.

That would be like eating your grandparents to survive (Hello Soviet Union)

Are you going to be able to vote to cut the defense spending that keeps our economy working because it defends our economic interests?

No that would cost us more.

That would be like if you stopped eating so you could save money on buying food. We need defense to live.

So there is only going to be some things that are possible to cut.

We can cut waste in medicine that costs a tremendous amount of money because democrats left the borders open and democrat scams.

We can cut subsidizing open borders and paying people to move here and vote for democrat scams so there are less democrat scams.

Those are the things we can possibly cut and thats what the republican party cut.

Those are the things the democrats aren't going to cut if they take power.

They are voting not to cut those things.
 
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Well I ran the numbers yesterday so if you rule out medicare and social security and interest on the debt the government did spend less after covid relief spending ended.
So when Biden was president.

That doesn't really help your case.

And I'm sure the reduction did not return all the way back down to pre-COVID levels. It was just a ratchet effect.
 
So when Biden was president.

That doesn't really help your case.

And I'm sure the reduction did not return all the way back down to pre-COVID levels. It was just a ratchet effect.

When Nancy Pelosi controlled the purse strings the government spent unprecedented amounts of money during the pandemic.

It wasn't a republican controlled government that did any of that.

Presidents don't really have the power to control spending. They don't have power of the purse. The democrats were controlling the spending.

They could theoretically veto everything and with the minority party in the house they can shut down the government but then you will just piss off 100 million voters and lose your reelections.

It doesn't really solve any spending problems if you lose elections and the democrat party wins and takes back all the power.

That sort of kamikaze style politics isn't effective.

When democrats took the power back they went on to spend trillions of dollars on the green energy scam.
 
When Nancy Pelosi controlled the purse strings the government spent unprecedented amounts of money during the pandemic.

It wasn't a republican controlled government that did any of that.

Presidents don't really have the power to control spending. They don't have power of the purse. The democrats were controlling the spending.

They could theoretically veto everything and with the minority party in the house they can shut down the government but then you will just piss off 100 million voters and lose your reelections.

It doesn't really solve any spending problems if you lose elections and the democrat party wins and takes back all the power.

That sort of kamikaze style politics isn't effective.

When democrats took the power back they went on to spend trillions of dollars on the green energy scam.
You're all over the place.

There is only one rule you follow. Defend Trump.
 
You're all over the place.

There is only one rule you follow. Defend Trump.

Im not all over the place.

Trump got a lot of stuff done that conservatives like and got Republicans elected. He got Roe v Wade overturned.

Conservatives might not be for cutting as much government as libertarians but they dont spend as much as democrats do when the democrats control the government.

When democrats took control over the congress after the mid terms during Trump's first terms they exploded spending.

The democrat talking point on that is to blame Trump for that but we have seperation of powers.
 
Im not all over the place.

Trump got a lot of stuff done that conservatives like and got Republicans elected. He got Roe v Wade overturned.
Bringing up things like Roe v. Wade that had not been any part of this discussion is an example of your being all over the place.

Conspicuously, one of the things that Trump has never accomplished is cutting spending.

Although, as you pointed out above, Biden did accomplish that.

When democrats took control over the congress after the mid terms during Trump's first terms they exploded spending.
Trump was not some hapless innocent victim. He actively pushed that explosion of spending, and demonized anyone who tried to impede his efforts (e.g. Massie). He's doing the same thing again in his second term.
 
Bringing up things like Roe v. Wade that had not been any part of this discussion is an example of your being all over the place.

Conspicuously, one of the things that Trump has never accomplished is cutting spending.

Although, as you pointed out above, Biden did accomplish that.


Trump was not some hapless innocent victim. He actively pushed that explosion of spending, and demonized anyone who tried to impede his efforts (e.g. Massie). He's doing the same thing again in his second term.

Trump has been the #1 president for the economy in decades. He got tax cuts passed that would have never happened if democrats got elected.

Being against Massie is good marketing and good politics.

Thomas Massie's voters vote for him because he is anti establishment.

Trump used to be anti establishment but now that he is the world-leader and elected president he is defacto the establishment especially in the eyes of Thomas Massie voters.

If Trump treated Massie any differently his voters would stop voting for Thomas Massie and stop helping him win elections.
 
Trump was not some hapless innocent victim. He actively pushed that explosion of spending, and demonized anyone who tried to impede his efforts (e.g. Massie). He's doing the same thing again in his second term.

It can't seem to understand why you contradict the honest clanker and believe your own eyes instead.

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It can't seem to understand why you contradict the honest clanker and believe your own eyes instead.

Trump is using his power of influence to help Thomas Massie.

JFK did something similar to Cuba's communist regime. The pressure campaign against Cuba gave their government legitimacy. Since the people there were really anti American the people thought that certainly if the loudest american on earth JFK was against their regime then that made their regime the good guys.

They influenced their country to have a terrible no good bad idea for a government that has caused tremendous and untold amounts of pain and suffering and they didn't even have to drop one bomb. It also influenced other countries not to become communist.
 
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