[napscoordinator]

Perhaps. But adding 10 trillion to the debt is what the last two presidents did. No excuses for that. Trump personally added 6.7 trillion in 4 short years. A 33 percent increase. Sorry but that will be felt for generations.

[Alberta's Child]

You have a “perfect storm” of factors here that makes this idiocy unavoidable. Even without the COVID fiasco we have been facing a deflationary trend where flat population growth and negative productivity growth (driven mainly by Baby Boomer retirements) has consigned the U.S. to a future very much like what you see in other developed countries.

Pissing away trillions of dollars on endless wars in Third World dumps could never be justified.