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[Bernard]

Inflate my grocery bill and energy costs in order to make the national debt look less imposing? Yeah, sure.

[The Free Engineer]

Deficit spending would have to be permanently stopped. Trump would have to become Milei. And have a legislature which goes along. Super unlikely for all that to happen.

[Brian Griffin]

Cheating people out of $34 trillion is going to make some of them very upset.

[Fungi]

Pure unadulterared crap. The premise is always how we can continue the present level of government. Nonsense. Stop spending money, stop funding overseas projects, funding terrorists, and freeze federal spending. Then one by one eliminate all unconstitutional federal agencies. The EPA, the “environmental protection agency”—which does nothing to protect the environment, was created by executive order. It has no constitutional right to exist.
The education department—what does it do? Nothing.
The Legal Services Corporation sued the congress and won its right to exist.

Stop baseline budgeting, stop spending fiat money!

This can all stop tomorrow but the bastards in office refuse to address the real issue—stop spending money and abolish all alphabet federal agencies that do nothing.

The federal budget can be balanced with a surplus if only these bastards had testicles. CUT SPENDING, ABOLISH WORTHLESS AGENCIES!

Why give Washington one dollar to get a penny in return? STOP SPENDING!!

[Rennes Templar]

My thought is to sell half of Alaska to Hungary and Argentina for about $20 trillion to bring down the debt. Would create great new trade routes, oils lines, etc.

[rlmorel]

Yeah. Wait until they outlaw cash and force us to use a central bank digital currency.

Then they can let us know just exactly how much our savings are worth. And when we have to spend it.

And how we will have to spend it.

[stylin19a]

He would use his own history in the real estate game...

'cept in New york ?

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[sauropod]

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[muir_redwoods]

This idiot doesn’t know what a number 34 trillion means. 34trillion seconds is 10,600 CENTURIES!

The only way this country gets out of debt is to either repudiate the debt or inflate the currency wildly so that an ounce sells for $200,000,000. The first option destroys our credit rating which gives you 30% mortgages and 66% credit card rates. The second option impoverished all of us by making savings and IRAs worthless..

[grey_whiskers]

Cut Federal spending.
Slash Federal bureaucracies.

[sphinx]

The federal budget, and therefore the structural deficit, is driven be entitlement spending, with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as by far the biggest problems. No discussion of addressing the fiscal crisis that doesn’t start there is credible.

Is the federal budget littered with discretionary programs that we could/should cut? Of course. But that is almost irrelevant in the big picture — little sandcastles on the beach in the face of an incoming tsunami. Draconian cuts in federal discretionary spending and defense are window dressing. At most they might buy a little time.