Good Lord Almighty!
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Hildebeaste Rotten-Blythe-KKKli'toon Tells The Truth!
eight years of prosperity...because we paid down our debt and got rid of our deficit
first, and got rid of our deficit is superflous, because as any moron knows, you can't pay down any net debt while you are still incurring additional debt by continuing to run a deficit
i will ignore the fact that scumbag variously said that it would take 10, 5, 9, 7 and 8 years to eliminate the deficit, all just months prior to being dragged kicking and screaming to sign the legislation
leaving eight years of prosperity...because we paid down our debt as the only utterance worth examining
it reveals her underlying belief that only the government controls our economic destiny by implying that no prosperity would have been possible if the government had instead run deficits and increased total debt
which, of course, ignores what scumbag wanted to do and actually did, as the fact is that total federal debt only started decreasing after 1999 (u.s. treasury debt totals)
it ignores the fact that it's impossible to credit "8 years of prosperity" to debt reduction when debt hasn't been reduced until the 8th year
it ignores the fact that the previous 20 years of prosperity had coincided with rising federal debt (not a causal factor, just a fact)
and, finally, although this economic illiterate would probably call herself a keynesian, her implication is that more debt reduction is always a good thing, a statement any actual keynesian would retch at
in any case, after ridiculing her statement, we should hold the imbecile to it and its implications, as it surely leads to the opposite of her real preference to spend all national income as she, and only she, sees fit
the wicked witch of the east has succeeded only in conclusively demonstrating that she's not fit to run a kool-aid stand