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I don't envy the next president (if it will not be Obama follower). Do you know why? Imagine this scene: former president, while handing over the office, leads the newly elected president by the hand along a foggy path...and here they come to the edge, where the highest mountain can be seen in the distance...and the former president said: "Now it's all yours" and points to the mountain...the mountain, named "National Debt"... Attachment 136301
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I don't really recall any new president that I 'envied' his job (i.e, stepping into a 'easy situation'), going back to Nixon. There has always been some type of crapola going on, either domestically or internationally.
This reminds me of a question one of my professors asked me in grad school.
"What would you do if you were an executive at General Motors right now to avoid bankruptcy?" The idea was to brainstorm a strategy for a company whose core competency was a market segment that was slumping (trucks, expensive performance cars, and SUVs). This was in 2009 and General Motors was facing a major liquidity problem as the auto market crashed. My response was "If I were running GM, I'd quit". My reasoning was that the market would not recover ad bankruptcy was inevitable....and I'd almost certainly be fired immediately after regardless of what I could do anyways.
That's how I feel about the next president. It's going to absolutely suck having that job, and whatever party gets that hot potato will almost certainly get "fired" afterward.Of course I'm not suggesting that our country would ever go into bankruptcy, but we do have some massive hurdles to overcome economically, our spending is out of control, race relations are getting worse, and terrorism probably isn't going away. All of those issues will require making decisions and pushing an agenda that will not be well received in the polls- especially with respect to foreign policy.
Servicing the national debt is a very light burden. It's about 6% of the budget. Hillary knows what's going on. Never fear.
Wow, that is really laugh out loud funny.
Don't worry, it's just $1 out of every $20 that every taxpayer pays in the nation that towards interest on the debt. I mean, really, who wants to quibble about 30 billion dollars give or take? No big deal.
And don't worry, Hillary knows what's going on. Of course, Ambassador Stevens' family who had to bury him after Hillary refused to increase security at his embassy, the White House Travel Office staff she fired and lied about, the women Bill Clinton sexually harassed and whose character she assassinated, and Jerry Zeifman the Watergate chief investigator who terminated Hillary for ethics violations might have a bit of a disagreement there, but hey Hillary will make a great President.
You tell 'em, DCforever. Those Democrats, you gotta love them.
As long as a fiscally responsible democrat is elected rather than a lip-service, supply-side, republican Gov. Sam Brownback type who will undoubtedly blow a huge hole in the budget, the US will get its debt and deficit under control.
As long as a fiscally responsible democrat is elected rather than a lip-service, supply-side, republican Gov. Sam Brownback type who will undoubtedly blow a huge hole in the budget, the US will get its debt and deficit under control.
fiscally responsible democrat? Might as well try and find a unicorn.
No worries. He/she can just do like our current president -- blame everything on the previous administration and/or the other party in congress.
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