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This is only an issue when we have a democrat as president: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gop-debt-ceiling-trump-pre...

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It's an issue if the dollar looses it's reserve currency status.

What is going to replace it? There is no feasible alternative.

> This is only an issue when it's a democrat president.

You'd think that indeed (dems are indeed, in a long leftist tradition, always ready, willing and eager to spend other people's money).

But, very unfortunately, the last few so-called "fiscal conservative" presidents have been anything but:

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-debt-by-president-by-doll...

I think that’s what they’re saying.

Who's "they"?

GP you originally replied to. He’s not saying the debt doesn’t go up regardless of who is the presidency, but that republicans only make it into an exercise in brinksmanship when a democrat has the Oval Office.

The debt goes up continuously under both parties. It's structural.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_un...

I agree. You might read some tea leaves and conclude that democrats or republicans are better from this article. I got the impression that the parties are very similar. There is no party that is the "obvious" choice. The debt goes up either way.

My only opinion is that the republican party is behaving far far more childish in public.

The Republican Party has done a far better job of weaponizing the debt issue. That’s all.

Not at the same amount and only one party complains about it.

For the last 40 years the deficit has increased under Republican presidents and decreased under Democrats.

This is true in other western democracies if you look at borrowing/expenditure by political flavour.

Ad hominem [1] attacks, even if true, don't make the idea itself less credible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

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