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To: Miami Rebel

I think even that would likely to - at best - delay the impact of the larger problem.

Deficits keep getting bigger and that simply cannot continue forever.

We need spending cuts - even pretty damn radical ones - and we forever get nothing but the opposite, regardless of who is in charge.

It simply cannot continue.


4 posted on 08/17/2026 11:35:03 AM PDT by Capn Hayek (Capital is not responsible for Labor's lack of planning)
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To: Capn Hayek
We need spending cuts - even pretty damn radical ones - and we forever get nothing but the opposite, regardless of who is in charge.

Wars are expensive.

5 posted on 08/17/2026 11:37:41 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Capn Hayek

Yup. We are still operating on Pelosi’s budget numbers along with the embedded COVID spending sent to states because of the continuing resolutions. Congress is less afraid of cutting a dollar of spending than they are of maintaining $2 trillion deficits.


25 posted on 08/17/2026 2:13:35 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves. )
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To: Capn Hayek

It simply cannot continue. It will continue as long as the market believes they can be paid. Has anyone asked DSA how they will address the deficit? The interest payments are a problem
I had hopes we could address spending with DOGE. But no one was serious. I do think we’ve crossed the Rubicon. A2029 crash?


29 posted on 08/17/2026 3:55:28 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: Capn Hayek
We need spending cuts

We need sound money.

30 posted on 08/17/2026 3:58:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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