Shutdown

It seems to me that it would take a real piece of work to think of people whose lives you know the struggle they've endured that has taken them to need public assistance and refer to them with that term.

You must be thinking of somebody other than who I'm thinking of.

The deficit rose to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018, up 17% from last year, according to final figures released Monday by the Treasury Department. That's the largest number since 2012, when the country was still spending massively to stimulate an economy struggling to recover.

Government receipts were flat this year from last year. Corporate tax collections fell $76 billion, or 22%, due to the Republican-backed tax cut. But that drop was more than offset by increased revenues from individual and self-employment taxes. The fiscal year ended September 30.
Spending rose 3% over the previous year, fueled in part by increases to the defense budget agreed upon in September 2017 as part of a deal between Republicans and Democrats to head off a government shutdown. Social Security and interest on the federal debt also contributed to the increase.

In June (2018), the federal debt — which aggregates annual deficits over time — stood at 78% of gross domestic product, the highest level since right after World War II. Updated figures were not immediately available on Monday.

As interest rates rise, servicing that ballooning debt could pose challenging. Treasury spent $522 billion last year paying interest, up 14% from the year before. That's more than the cost of Medicaid, food stamps, and the department of Housing and Urban Development combined. But it is smaller as a percentage of GDP than it has been historically.

In late September, the House passed a bill that would extend individual tax cuts that are currently are slated to end in 2025, at a cost of $631 billion over a 10-year window.

MB1! It's good to see you share the conservative obsession with weeding "welfare chistlers" off the govenment dole.

Try to mellow out a bit and realize that not everybody who doesn't agree with EVERYTHING you hold dear is your enemy.

Try to mellow out a bit and realize that not everybody who doesn't agree with EVERYTHING you hold dear is your enemy.

1)Are you yet aware that the cry out of "liberal outrage" whenever one doesn't want to acknowledge a point made by a purported Democrat IS one of the *chants* developed and amplified by the Russian 2016 election campaign?

Well, now you do know.

So remember when you slag that phrase, that you aren't thinking for yourself, are being used.

By a hostile nation engaged in cyber warfare with *your* county.

I give you *your* country as a courtesy, because that's how the game is played. Do you know they even have a term for those who unwittingly further their agenda(such as *the* president? The term is translated in English as "Useful Idiot."

2) "Lady, close your legs." #misogyny

Do you think there are no men in this country that have been responsible for 15 or more pregnancies for which they had/have no plan/strategy or intention of supporting?

Oh, and:
"That was an experiment."

And considering your bad advice to me, you might want to try applying to yourself.

Of course, it's probably awfully presumptuous on my part to think you would give a dang what I think!