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The federal govt is estimated to be bankrupt in 10 years. If by "ideologue" you mean people who not only recognise this but are ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING to address the problem (for the first time ever) then yes you may be right.

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First time ever? We had a budget surplus with hitting paying off the national debt in the 90’s. First thing Bush Jr did was giant tax cut for the rich which ended that.

By doing something, you mean cutting taxes and throwing away all the tax revenue they got from the IRS not sharing data with law enforcement, right?

No by doing something I mean finding massive levels of fraud, waste and abuse and stopping it.

None of those things are documented. No fraud has been brought to the courts by then as far as I know. None of the cuts were massive. Any published cuts so far are a rounding error of the total, some are disputed as savings at all. Meanwhile the debt is being extended even further. And that's before considering how many of the attempted cuts were illegal themselves.

What you mean by doing it isn't actually happening.

they cut a couple of billions out of 4% of the budget. the rest is just big random numbers that get revised down with every fact check.

Interest, military, and social security are the only things big enough to cut to fix the deficit much less pay down the debt.

The entire rest of the government could be free and we would still be screwed if we don’t make cuts where it counts.

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