(02-10-2018 09:33 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Do we pay down on the interest or is that being compounded too?
And JMU Puuhhhhleaze. Yes you can’t ***** and moan about 9 trillion and thn add 1.5 trillion in a tax cut. If you cut one tax you have to find another area to balance out revenue. Factor in unfounded liabilities. I listened Jim Drunkenmiller on our unfounded liabilities. No one is serious about it. For your comparison between Obama’s stimulus. That was deficit spending to get us out of a contraction. A pretty severe one. Here, not so much. This looks like a campaign favor.

So why did the deficit spending not stop when the contraction stopped? The left makes two contradictory claims:

1) That Obama ended the Great Recession
2) That the Obama defects were necessary because we were in a recession

They can't both be true.