What Happened to the Republicans' Concern About the National Debt?

[louis c]

<snip>A large part of the national debt reflects the federal budget deficit, or the amount of spending above the revenues collected by the government. But the debt is rising faster than the amount of the budget deficit, as it also reflects things like federal lending for student loans and mortgage programs.

Peter G. Peterson Foundation President Michael Peterson said the milemarker is just the beginning, as Congress has just agreed to spend even more.

"Our national debt reached a staggering $21 trillion today, having grown by $1 trillion in just the past six months," he said. "Worse yet, this unfortunate milestone has only just begun to include the effects of the recent fiscally irresponsible tax and spending legislation, which added more debt on top of an already unsustainable trajectory."<snip>

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/national-debt-hits-21-trillion

[Sherman A1]

1. They never did care about the National Debt

the plan has always been to rack up more and more debt to cut social programs.

[JI7]

2. They never cared about it.

[Thunderbeast]

3. Shock Doctrine....Naomi Klein

The precise blueprint for economic policies engineered for the purpose of concentrating wealth and destroying democracy.

It is happening here. If you read her book, this will all look like a slow motion train wreck.

[LovingA2andMI]

4. It Went To The Same Place As "Family Values"...

In The 777 File...

[NewJeffCT]

5. They only care when the president has a (D) after their name

when it's an (R), all concerns go out the window.

[Snackshack]

6. Seriously?

[rownesheck]

7. Read about

the 2 Santa Claus idea dreamed up by those republibastards.

[trof]

8. What? Me worry?

[davekriss]

9. Republican concern will rise again...

...once they’re ready to take another run at decimating Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

[UTUSN]

10. Or, any of the other things they always claimed to stand for.

We always knew they are rotten at the core.

[onecaliberal]

11. IOKIYAR, their concern will return upon election of the next democratic POTUS.

[KWR65]

12. As Dick Cheney said, Debt and defiects don't matter

In the end our government will declare bankruptcy by passing a law then settle the debt for 10 cents on the dollar.