(02-10-2018 10:31 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 09:49 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(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.

The idea of Obamacare was that the price of healthcare would go down by years. It would have cut the spending on Medicaid and Medicare budget down. But, we had some states refused to accept the law of the land, and states like Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Kansas that accepted Obamacare had a rush of patients crossing the border for healthcare. Texarkana, Arkansas doctors were getting a lot of Texarkana, Texas patients who wanted a cheaper price on their doctor's visits. As it is, the Obamacare in Arkansas is stable, cheaper healthcare costs, and prices of insurance is much cheaper than Texas. Cancer patients from Texas that are on Blue Cross/Blue Shields wound up keeping their insurance because they went to Arkansas for their treatment. We are short of doctors and nurses in this state as it is.

Number one, the deficits were a lot bigger than anything that can be attributed to Obamacare or Medicaid or Medicare. Remember, Obamacare was going to reduce the deficit.

Number two, the idea of Obamacare is that health care costs would go down because docs would be willing to do more work for less money. Guess what? They're not.