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$1.2 Trillion Dollar Deficit - The Real Crisis (Original Post) PaulX2 Jan 2019 OP
Where are all the deficit hawks on the GOP side? SunSeeker Jan 2019 #1
Republicans hate deficits...... DFW Jan 2019 #2
When the GOP is in charge all of a sudden budget deficits do not matter. UCmeNdc Jan 2019 #3
This is what republicans have done to America Achilleaze Jan 2019 #4

SunSeeker

(51,545 posts)
1. Where are all the deficit hawks on the GOP side?
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:40 AM
Jan 2019

All through the Obama years, it seems every Republican was a deficit hawk, screaming about the deficit and insisting we had to bring it down immediately.

DFW

(54,328 posts)
2. Republicans hate deficits......
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:45 AM
Jan 2019

Unless they are deficits made by Republicans. THEN, they "don't matter," as acting president Dick Cheney put it.

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
3. When the GOP is in charge all of a sudden budget deficits do not matter.
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:53 AM
Jan 2019

Why won’t the press ask them about the hugh deficits the GOP creates?

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