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> I won’t cry if it is dismantled.

You will if the private replacement is much worse.

The federal government is 36 trillion in debt. How do you run things worse than that? No private company or citizen would survive blowing up their finances as bad as what the federal government has been doing for decades.

Most folks with a mortgage are in a similar spot - long term debt at low rates in excess of annual income - and we can’t print money.

Government isn’t a business. It can’t declare bankruptcy and it can’t price half the country out of the market.

If you’re really a deficit hawk, this admin should be appalling to you.

It does

The government is not a company. It is ludicrous to expect it to operate like one.

I’d say it is ludicrous to be okay with them continually eroding our buying power with inflationary spending.

You’re right it isn’t a company. Its actions directly impact all of us whether we want to do business with them or not.

I don’t know that. I do know that this one was terrible though.

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