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And what does that have to do with the person you were responding to?
anyone remember the Clinton budget surplus? some of us do. no wonder the gqp lost its sh*t over him >

I remember. And I was young too but EVERYONE was talking about it. >

It is possible to have a prosperous country and budget surplus in government but it requires Democrats in charge. >

So it'll never happen in America. >

If we still have a democracy in a few years, younger generations (Millennials and Zoomers) are about to overtake Baby Boomers in voting numbers, are growing more and more politically engaged and increasingly hate conservatism with a passion. >

Saddest part of this is that we’ve had the numbers to at least match boomers at the polls for years, but Millennial turnout just broke 50% a few years ago. >

We're trying. I got my wife to vote for the first time ever, and we just turned 30 >

Lol why is the picture a picture of Kevin McCarthy shaking someone's hand? >

Because it works on a non zero percent of people. >

What does? >

The subtle implication that the brand-new Speaker of the House had something to do with lowering the deficit. >

Why would the times do that? >

Journalism has been dead for awhile now and is mostly just a political dog show now. >

Debt is not the same as deficit >

Not sure I follow your point.  You would agree that deficit spending results in debt, correct?  
Trump's tax cuts to the 1% for their historic stock buyback resulted in the third-biggest deficit increase of any president. >

Yes I would.  But people use debt and deficit interchangeably and they are different calculations