| TheRealMafoo said: See, here is the problem. You don't know me very well. I am not a Republican. I was not a Bush fan. I am the first to say Bush was the second worst president we ever had, following distantly behind Obama. Spending money you don't have is never a good idea. As John Adams once said, there has never been a democracy that's didn't commit suicide. And all great nations that commit suicide, always do it economically. In the grand scheme of things, the US is a very young country. This idea that we will be here forever, and can just spend like made (that all presidents in my lifetime have thought) will be the end of us. There were people like me, watching rome fall, who had people like you calling them idiots. I am ok with that. |
I wasn't trying to address you specifically since I don't know what you identify yourself as, but it was just something to point out.
I would also like to point out that if it wasn't for Reagan accruing debt, the US would be nowhere where it is now. What saved the US from the '80s were the tax breaks. Those mixed with unprecedented spending, got the nation out of the extremely serious stagflation. The US has been running on debt since the '80s and whatever luxuries you have had in these past 30 years are because of all this debt. Whether it's smart or not is not the problem, it's just how much longer you want to delay the econmic fall.
The US has been basically on borrowed time since the '80s, people who have been kidding themselves about it and think the US will be where it is forever just don't know how things stand. The country has been screwed whether it borrowed or not. Borrowing just pushed it back some. At least you got to enjoy some luxury in the process.
If you are gonna equate yourself to people watching rome fall, then I'm more of the guy out in the outskirts who has been seeing the barbarians come in for years now.
