Its real and will continue until the government stops printing money, which means it has to stop spending. What you are asking is for the country to keep spending, and thus creating more DEBT. In the next thread you'll complain about Trumps $38Trillion in debt.

Americans have no idea what they are advocating, I suspect they are just economically illiterate given the ability to print USD has hidden them from reality..

#8 | Posted by oneironaut

Republicans have blown up the debt every time they've been in the WH since Reagan

When Bill Clinton left office, we'd run two years of surpluses and had $5.6 trillion total national debt while spending $1.6 trillion Clinton's last budget year.

During 8 years of Bush, Republicans blew that budget up and left us with $1.4 TRILLION ANNUAL deficits - doubling the budget AND the debt, and leaving us with systemic deficits for years to come.

Obama got that back down to $500b annual deficit, which Trump and Republicans - again, with unitary control - blew up to over a TRILLION a year in deficits like *that* the first year he was in office, and it's gotten worse with every year he and Republicans have held the reins of power.

Tax cuts tax cuts tax cuts and more and more and more debt. This is what you get from Republicans

Let it collapse under its own weight and let Trump fix it.

#10 | Posted by BillJohnson

Trump and Republicans have had YEARS to come up with the promised "much better" health insurance.

Trump and Republicans have failed. And you've fallen for their lies, Leviticus. (may I just call you "Levi" for short?)

ACA is a failure. It requires more and more money to prop it up.
#10 | Posted by BillJohnson

Case in point. Bill isn't a Christian because he doesn't follow what Christ said.

So, trillions in tax cuts to the wealthiest among us, but no food or medical care for tens of millions, many "the least of these."

Bill, you're no Christian. Don't know what to call you. "Leviticus?"

Face it, Trump is gaslighting. He doesn't shop for groceries and that makes him out of touch with the public that does have to. Lying about it doesn't change the reality Joe Public sees when he has to open his wallet to pay for things like food, rent, and utilities.

#5 | Posted by BBQ

George HW Bush didn't know how much a gallon of milk cost. That example of being out of touch may have cost him his reelection in 1992.

Republicans tore Matthew 25 out of their Bibles. And anything else the namesake of Christianity taught ...

Didn't Putin's meathole promise to lowers prices on day one?

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

As the head of the new conservative org "Not A Promise Keeper."

#11 | Posted by LampLighter

They've already expanded the 10% cuts beyond the initial 40 airports.

They've cut them at our airport, which wasn't one of the initial 40 airports with announced reductions.

Last night, flight thanks to the shutdown, a friend flying home from here was told he'd have a 2 day layover where he was to catch his connecting flight. And have to pay for 2 nights in a hotel ...

Amen

The "new word" (LOL!!) "affordability" is headed in the wrong direction.

All the furloughed government employees can't afford anything.

Nor can the tens of millions of Americans affected by higher ACA premiums and hungry kids because of the SNAP shutdown.

That's announced job cuts, not actual job cuts.

Announced job cuts turn into job cuts.

Too bad Trump fired the credible head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And now with the shutdown, we don't even get those iffy numbers.

To my Democrat friends. This isnt a "blue wave". Most of the elections today are for Democrat strongholds. There are no Republican led states or cities having elections. You are only electing who we knew would win. I mean, who else would win Virginia? It's full of Democrats.

#1 | Posted by boaz

Democratic candidates didn't just win the highest-profile races in Virginia, New Jersey and New York, but they also won judicial retention elections in Pennsylvania and a variety of down-ballot races. They even picked up seats in the Mississippi Legislature " which cost Republicans their supermajority " and ousted two Republican incumbents on the Georgia commission that regulates utilities.

More moderate Democrats, more progressive Democrats, Democrats who were well-known and Democrats who weren't, Democrats who ran explicitly against Donald Trump and those who barely mentioned him " they all did great.

"Yer doin' a heck of a job, Donnie" (/sarcasm)

For as long as I can remember I wake up almost exactly 8 hours after I fall asleep.

Disgusting!

"They're eating the immigrants" meme:

Guess not enough cats eaten.

#19 | Posted by Corky

Though he was a war hawk, and all the associated lies and wrongdoing as VP, at least he redeemed himself a little by speaking out against Trump as a wannabe autocrat and for maintaining our democratic democracy.

Trump's gettin' war frisky. Like Peter II of Russia, he's a manchild. And with all those toys to play with!

I thought MAGA was all about no wars.

That's what he says today. Tomorrows are a mystery ...

Trump's practicing "How To Win Friends & Influence People" in reverse.

His approval numbers have nosedived in every category. His political capitol is headed into bankruptcy. He's great at 'em.

Isn't 60 minutes the show trump sued for editing out one of Kamala's answers during an interview?

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

It sure is.

Skydance CEO David Ellison (Skydance recently bought Paramount and CBS) is a Republican:

Trump seems bound and determined to keep his falling, underwater approval ratings on a downward projectory.

Another just released poll shows Trump approval significantly underwater in every category queried .

There's kompromat on Johnson. Don't know what, but there's pretty much no question they have something on him that he REALLY doesn't want to get out. Doubt it's underage girls, might be underage boys, might just be run of the mill crime. But it's bad, probably worse than just his Grindr account.

#4 | Posted by DarkVader

Speaking of which, this comedian, Cliff Cash, has things to say about Mike Johnson ... and much more. Intelligent and witty political humor.

And Trump's upside down -60 with Gen Z, support among Millennials is way upside down, also falling among seniors.