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kpete

(71,965 posts) Sat Feb 25, 2017, 01:04 PM Feb 2017

Puppet or Parrot?

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Puppet or Parrot? (Original Post) kpete Feb 2017 OP

I think he means that the deficit went down $12 billion, not the debt. Motown_Johnny Feb 2017 #1

Motown_Johnny

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1. I think he means that the deficit went down $12 billion, not the debt.

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Sat Feb 25, 2017, 01:29 PM

Feb 2017

I would need to go look at the numbers but it seems unlikely that the debt actually dropped. That would require a twelve billion dollar surplus in one month.

It is far more likely that Trump doesn't understand what the debt and the deficit are.

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