Trump May Be The Most Fiscally Reckless President In American History

[ashling]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2018/05/20/trump-may-be-the-most-fiscally-reckless-president-in-american-history/#4eaf44f2564a

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[Demovictory9]

1. yup

Trump's behavior on everything and anything having to do with the federal budget has become blatantly predictable and painfully obvious. It always includes some combination of:

1. Proposing whatever he wants on revenues and spending regardless of whether it is the right policy for the economy.

2. Making up his own rules of economics, mathematics and budgeting to justify what's being proposed and make them politically palatable.

3. Discrediting the facts when they get in the way of what he wants to do and demeaning those that produce them.

4. Ignoring reality when what actually happens turns out very different from what he swore would occur.

5. Paying no attention whatsoever to the budget deficit and national debt.

[Matthew28]

5. And if he did care about the debt

He'd cut SSI, Medicare and food stamps to the bone.

[dalton99a]

2. Unfit to run the cash register at 7-Eleven

[JHB]

3. In other words, still within typical Republican parameters, just lacking...

...the usual smokescreen they like to use. He's not reckless all on his own, y'know.

[JNelson6563]

4. "may be"...Forbes going out on a limb.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. That was my first thought, too!

He "may" be?? I think he's got the previous 44 beat - and he hasn't yet lasted half a term. Just his golf outings and the travels of his extended family have eclipsed previous presidents...

[malaise]

7. Reckless

PERIOD

[Scarsdale]

8. He is only reckless

with taxpayer money. He does not have enough of his own to really squander it. He is flying nationwide on taxpayer money, even to the Florida Russian enclave. Money from his properties is flowing into his family businesses while he plays his reality TV game on the whole world. He has no idea what he is really doing, just wants his ugly face on TV. How come the gop was not outraged when he sent the unqualified Jarrod and Ivanka to the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem? Neither one has security clearance, or experience. Why are they representing this country? Imagine a Democratic president trying something like this!! The gop would be screaming louder than Nunes is right now.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. It only matters when *rich* people lose money.

[pansypoo53219]

10. w cut taxes during a war. started another war. not the 1st.