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Deficit Spending up 20% in July, 289 Billion

Tigerbalm1 · 2025-08-18T11:44:08.292Z

Despite the revenue from tariffs, government spending is up and revenue is down under Trump. Is this what you guys voted for?

Back in 1999, as a senior, I took a 600-level history course on the Appalachian South. The Professor was Dr. Rameth Owens, an older lady from the mountains. Very bright, and a perfect professor to teach the history of the Appalachian South.

We had a research paper due that was like 40% of the course grade. There may have been 16 students in the class. Right at half were graduate students. Two years earlier Dr. Bruce Ransom had put the fear of God in me when I failed to properly cite sources in a paper. He took me into his office, dissected my paper, and lit me up for not citing sources. Said he could turn me in for this. Honestly he was being picky because some of my sources were notes from a history course. How do I cite that? ANYWAY.....from that day on I cited EVERYTHING I could think of.

Now, back to Dr. Owens and her paper on the Scopes Monkey Trial. She handed those papers back and I got an A+, she wrote excellent work blah blah. Anyway, after giving back all the papers she lit into the entire class for improperly citing references in their research, and for FAILING to cite references. She flunked every paper that didn't cite references. The others did not sufficiently cite sources, they got C's and D's. She pointed to me and said "Mr. Tiggity was the ONLY student, in this entire class, half of whom are GRADUATE students, to properly cite his sources in his paper".

But what came next was the prescient part. She said it is embarrassing to have to read papers without citations and sources listed. She said if this is indicative of college students across America today (25 years ago), our future will be very bleak as a nation, and characterized by ignorant and misinformed people. Future generations will suffer mightily if the news stops citing sources, and science stops citing sources, and history books stop citing sources, and then we will be in a very bad situation. And here we are. She was right. Every single day, some left wing or right wing nut finds something on social media, runs with it, and it's fake, not sourced, and often made up. Whole websites are dedicated to fact checking, because we're so misinformed, and lied to. And the people who believe the garbage and viral crap on social media frankly, scare the #### out of me, regardless of their politics.

Is what it is, but Dr. Owens hit the nail on the head.

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I think CA and myself will beg to disagree.

Aug 18, 2025, 10:23 AM

The segment of Republicans, the ignorant ones, who have been marginalized for decades, well, they came out of the woodwork, and elected an evil leader. These people are more than willing to sell their soul, and our nation, down the river to end DEI, and have their views forced, in even unconstitutional ways, as they see the system as already failed. This is the core of the MAGA crowd, and they're bigger than you think. Bigger than the socialists or communists in the US by miles. In numbers and votes.

Politics, in a democracy, will be geared to wherever the votes may be. Trump tapped into that disaffected segment of Republicans who are (were and are) rightfully frustrated. AS A REPUBLICAN, and a CONSERVATIVE, this has been my biggest fear, for a good decade, probably two now. I never feared we'd become socialist, or communist, or whatever else. The numbers are not there for that, in the US. The numbers ARE there for something just as bad, or even worse, a right wing autocrat to usurp power to placate those who have been disaffected.

Trump LOVES the conspiracies when he campaigns. He loves the uninformed vote. He gets in office and he shoots them all down. But Trump has successfully pandered to a base of voters who have been marginalized for decades, from both parties really. And I supported Trump and voted for him over Hillary in 2016. It took a Trump/MAGA rally in 2017 to show me the light. Looking around, that auditorium, and seeing the people, those who have long-held grievances, and no voice to be heard, that scared the crap out of me. MY PEOPLE, scared the #### out of me. I knew then and there, where this was heading, and here we are.

Sucks being a history major. But it's the Trumps of the world, and the AOC's of the world, and the Hillary's of the world, and the Bidens of the world, they are going after the outliers now, and that's dangerous, because the outliers, especially those who have long felt unrepresented, like the voters who sent the Tea Party to Congress only to have them either run out or assimilated, those voters who have banged their heads against walls for decades trying to get spending cuts, and a balanced budget, and whatever else, those people are desperate, and that showed at that rally in 2017. And the absolute idolization and zombie like admiration they had for whatever words same from Trump's mouth, it was a very familiar scene, for a history major.

To date we have a fake fentanyl crisis, (Canada is lumped into this somehow), and a crime crisis in Washington, DC, an immigration crisis, even though we've had this many immigrants in the past, and a trade crisis, as we run a deficit in trade. All these FAKE crises are being used by trump to usurp power and gain control. And meanwhile Congress is shellshocked, as they only want to keep getting reelected and keep throwing money around. And America suffers. Sad really.

If, say in the year 2000, after the Florida pregnant chad recount, if term limits and a balanced budget had been FORCED on Congress by the 50 states, I would argue we wouldn't have Trump, or have had Biden, or Hillary, or a debt crisis, or anything else. Two simple tweaks to our legislative body would have prevented everything happening now and changed the entire trajectory of our future as a nation.

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Deficit Spending up 20% in July, 289 Billion

How much is servicing the debt @ 8%***

Re: How much is servicing the debt @ 8%***

Shows how bad of an idea the BBB was with interest rates

What specifically in the BBB has taken effect and what is the cost?***

Brah

Then why didn't the Trump and the GOP stop spending?

The Green New Deal was never passed.

Has to be exhausting constantly moving those goalposts all day***

If rates are dropped any significant amount

Re: If rates are dropped any significant amount

It has happened before, in other countries.

Re: If rates are dropped any significant amount

Let's also take a look at long-term stupidity

Re: Let's also take a look at long-term stupidity

But it was BIG and BEAUTIFUL!!1!

Republicans have been absolutely HAD by Trump***

Re: Republicans have been absolutely HAD by Trump***

Evil people take advantage of stupid people. That's why

Re: Evil people take advantage of stupid people. That's why

We have reached a critical mass of ignorant people in the US.

Re: We have reached a critical mass of ignorant people in the US.

Republicans have WILLINGLY BEEN HAD by Trump***

I think CA and myself will beg to disagree.

Re: Republicans have been absolutely HAD by Trump***

I've come totally clean.

Re: Deficit Spending up 20% in July, 289 Billion

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Re: Deficit Spending up 20% in July, 289 Billion

So many of u are mad at the deficit yet begging for more involvement in Ukraine?

We spent 130x more on DOGE than aid to Ukraine in 2025

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That was never passed.

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