Trump shrugs off future debt crisis: ‘I won’t be here’

[libertybele]

Nonsense. The people that run everything will not let their game fall apart.

I'm beginning to wonder if you live in reality or somewhere in la la land?

[The_Reader_David]

Spoken like a true Keynesian.   The same attitude evinced by J.M. Keynes, the great advocate of deficit spending as economic stimulus, when he said "In the long run, we're all dead."  (Though it predates him:  the old pagans said "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.")

[The_Reader_David]

Nonsense. The people that run everything will not let their game fall apart.

That was the attitude of the populace during the period of decadence that preceded every sudden collapse of an empire or civilization.  And at some level they were right:  the people that ran everything didn't "let their game fall apart", but it and everything around it fell apart anyway.

[Sanguine]

I'm beginning to wonder if you live in reality or somewhere in la la land?

I think it is now normal for millennials to live in la la land and think it is reality.

[libertybele]

I think it is now normal for millennials to live in la la land and think it is reality.

My advice to them is to head "west", California is a wonderful place!

[edpc]

My advice to them is to head "west", California is a wonderful place!

[Night Hides Not]

I'm beginning to wonder if you live in reality or somewhere in la la land?

There was a movie made a few years back, I think it fits this discussion perfectly.



Don't blink, here's the sequel:

[Maj. Bill Martin]

I don't doubt Trump may have said something like that.  I just doubt the spin being put on his comment.

Trump proposed big entitlement cuts in his 2019 budget, which didn't go through.  So, you could take his alleged comment as meaning "if future Congresses/Presidents are unwilling to cut spending, that's on them."

[aligncare]

Today’s media has elevated the misrepresentation of Donald Trump’s comments to an art form. It has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with the establishment bureaucracy and its media supporters’ hatred for the man.

[libertybele]

I don't doubt Trump may have said something like that.  I just doubt the spin being put on his comment.

Trump proposed big entitlement cuts in his 2019 budget, which didn't go through.  So, you could take his alleged comment as meaning "if future Congresses/Presidents are unwilling to cut spending, that's on them."

Gee thanks for the interpretation of what he probably could have meant.   

[txradioguy]

Amazing how some people want to have it both ways...they will believe unnamed and "Anonymous" sources when they are posting OpEds against Trump denounce the same kind of sources out of hand with articles like this.

I believe he probably said it...especially since he had no problem putting his signature on the last budget that got passed...and probably one of those anonymous #resist types that work in the Executive Branch is the leaker of this most recent quote.

[Fishrrman]

Readin' Dave wrote:
Though it predates him:  the old pagans said "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die."

Sounds like a practical and pragmatic philosophy, if you ask me.

Re "the debt":
It will be addressed.... someday.
That time remains A LONG ways off. Perhaps decades into the future.

The problem will remain "unfixed" until things break down so badly that by then it MUST be "fixed". But... not until that time arrives.

I doubt many of the ol' folks of this forum will live to see it.

(channeling old police shows):
"that is all...."

[Dexter]

That time remains A LONG ways off. Perhaps decades into the future.

Generations more likely. The next 100 years will be crucial. We need to help young people.

[RoosGirl]

Generations more likely. The next 100 years will be crucial. We need to help young people.

You remind me of my 6 year old, to whom "help" means doing it for him.

[roamer_1]

Generations more likely. The next 100 years will be crucial. We need to help young people.

No. We have to help old people. And the downtrodden.

[Dexter]

You remind me of my 6 year old, to whom "help" means doing it for him.

It amazes me the way some of you prioritize things. History will see your generation as the one that tripped and lost us our place in the world.

[corbe]

You remind me of my 6 year old, to whom "help" means doing it for him.

    I date a 54yo Woman that has that same train of thought @RoosGirl I wish someone would have nipped it in the bud when she was 6.

[corbe]

It amazes me the way some of you prioritize things. History will see your generation as the one that tripped and lost us our place in the world.

    History won't even write about your generation because the 'apathy' of it all.

[RoosGirl]

It amazes me the way some of you prioritize things. History will see your generation as the one that tripped and lost us our place in the world.

It amazes me you think you need and deserve things handed to you on a silver platter.

[Dexter]

It amazes me you think you need and deserve things handed to you on a silver platter.

I don't need anything personally. I want my generation and the one that follows it to be successful. You're kidding yourself if you think financial success wasn't a lot easier when you were young.

[Wingnut]

It amazes me the way some of you prioritize things. History will see your generation as the one that tripped and lost us our place in the world.

I don't believe in abortion. But if I had a time machine I would have paid for a taxi ride to a planned parenthood office for your mother.

[RoosGirl]

I don't need anything personally. I want my generation and the one that follows it to be successful. You're kidding yourself if you think financial success wasn't a lot easier when you were young.

Like you said previously, you don't *want* to sound like you think you're special, but you do think you're special, that you've done things that other people aren't smart/clever enough to do.

[roamer_1]

I don't need anything personally. I want my generation and the one that follows it to be successful. You're kidding yourself if you think financial success wasn't a lot easier when you were young.

Success has to be earned. It comes no other way.

[Sanguine]

I don't believe in abortion. But if I had a time machine I would have paid for a taxi ride to a planned parenthood office for your mother.

Some people provide an example to others of what not to be.

[Dexter]

Success has to be earned. It comes no other way.

Our young people earned their education by being the Americans that will shape our future.