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Post by sigurdur on Jan 5, 2017 18:31:36 GMT
Darn thing can't decide if it's up or down Well, it has decided it seems. UP. 19,935,025,589,392.85
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 7, 2017 0:35:58 GMT
I wish it had gone the other way. But then, I wish for a lot of things.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 20, 2017 16:15:06 GMT
That graph looks like Mr. Mann's graph. Is our debt the result of warming temps?
If the USA were able to get the debt down a bit, would it cool off?
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Post by sigurdur on May 31, 2017 12:28:30 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 8, 2017 18:30:36 GMT
We bumped the debt limit ceiling a bit ago. Another 60 days or so, and it will have to be raised as the "extraordinary" efforts will have run their "course".
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 22, 2017 1:13:24 GMT
wolfstreet.com/2017/08/21/us-gross-national-debt-to-spike-by-800-billion-in-october/There is zero chance, no chance we won’t raise the debt ceiling,” swore Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) at an event in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday. He who couldn’t get his Republican ducks all lined up in a row to get any major legislation passed this year was confident that the Senate would pass a bill that would raise the debt ceiling so that the government could continue to pay for things that Congress told the Government to pay for, and so that the government could service its debts, rather than default on them.
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 4, 2017 3:36:38 GMT
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/30/dancing-on-the-debt-ceiling/Washington knows how to turn melodrama into farce. That’s the lowdown on the debt ceiling debate about to be served up on Capitol Hill. It would be a laugh if it were not so serious. The oft-repeated argument that the nation must keep overspending in order to stay on course leaves the sane shaking their heads. But without a correction of direction, the unpayable bill will come due and there will be no last laugh.
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Post by sigurdur on Oct 21, 2017 3:18:39 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Oct 21, 2017 3:19:36 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Oct 23, 2017 1:29:42 GMT
Not that I know off.
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 27, 2017 14:45:17 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 1, 2017 13:37:10 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 25, 2018 20:10:01 GMT
Won't happen this year it seems. In fact, it may not happen for several years. The economic response to the tax reductions is much better than I had hoped. Past performance does not seem indicative of future performance today.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 27, 2018 20:07:52 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 28, 2018 15:52:01 GMT
Sure went up under Obama. It really did. Which brings the question, WHAT did we GET for all that debt increase?
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