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Your last source contradicts your first (partisan) source, and also mentions: > The national debt grew by more than $8.1 trillion during Donald Trump’s preside
by antonvs 8mo ago
Your last source contradicts your first (partisan) source, and also mentions:
> The national debt grew by more than $8.1 trillion during Donald Trump’s presidency, the largest four-year increase in the nation’s history.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8mo agoI was addressing the claim that Democrats had added merely $1.2 trillion since 1913. I apologise if that wasn’t clear enough.
- mapontosevenths 8mo agoYou misunderstood. That number is per 4 year term, and is an average. I probably could have phrased it more carefully to make that clear.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8mo agoStill, 1.4 vs 1.2 is a distinction without a difference. One party fucked us over slightly less than the other party isn’t really an argument in favour of either.
- mapontosevenths 8mo agoIts not the same at all though, because the right uses the deficit to excuse their selfish bullshit, like letting children starve, then they go on to increase it by more than the other side whenever they have power. We get wildly different results, even with the similar spending. The government exists to benefit the people, not the other way around, and only one side gets that.