The Changing World Order

If you carry a cell phone, you are being tracked. If you use a computer, you are being tracked. Get used to it. As far as I know, you cannot register a car without saying how you acquired it. So this really is all about you wanting to cheat on taxes.

Nonsense. Conservatives want to redistribute upwards (toward the rich). And they have been doing a lot of that.

And I call bullshit on that.FDR was dealing with the great depression. Ford acted in a time of prosperity.Why is it that you don't credit FDR with bringing us that prosperity?

As best I can tell, the Hunter Biden story is mostly a diversion so that people won't notice the many crimes that Trump has committed. Maybe Hunter Biden did something wrong, but there is so much hype that it is hard to tell. I doubt it. The "New World Order" seems to be just an over-hyped right wing fantasy.

What we are hearing from Phat seems to be group-think. He is giving us a window into his group, which is likely a group of evangelicals.

The villains are the people who voted for the interests of the super-rich and against their own interests. People like Phat.

I expect some people to vote for worse, because they have poor judgement on such issues. That's probably because so many Americans make poor decisions. There's nothing I can do about that, other than avoid voting for incompetent politicians. I don't crow about either. Biden is limited by the strong opposition in congress. Presidents are not kings.

Because Republicans keep cutting the taxes that should be used to pay it back.You vote Republican, so you are part of the problem.

By eliminating the deficit, he started the repaying of the debt.The Republicans sabotaged this by cutting taxes and pushing the deficit back up.Obama attempted to address this, but the Republicans would not allow any tax increase. The same with Biden.If you want to see the debt paid down, why do you vote Republican? No, it needs to be reduced. But that requires a willingness to pay a little more in taxes. Most of the world is not much affected. But they will be seriously affected if congress fails to raise the debt limit.

I did not say that the debt needs to be eliminated. I just said that it needs to be reduced.If taxes exceed expenses, the debt is reduced.Think of this as a kind of buffer. In good years you reduce the debt, or even build a surplus. In bad years, you spend down the surplus or build up debt. It's impossible to get it exactly right every year, so we need this buffering. But we should keep the buffer size manageable. If debt is increasing every year, then we need a small increase in taxes. We should be aiming for a reasonably stable level of debt, but of course there would be year to year fluctuation.