Covid-19 vaccine

[mrdude]

IDK. Between the unemployment benefits, the free money, and the free time, I could go for another pandemic right now.

During the pandemic, I lived like rich people lived. Money just kept appearing in my bank account and I had all the time in the world to pursue hobbies and be with my family. I went back to in person work in August 2020, but the 6 months before that were excellent.

Of course, I had followed covid news since before it was in the US. The <1% death rate and the majority of those deaths being in the 65+ age group was well known in Feb 2020. I wasn't worried about the virus at all, unlike most people under lockdown.

That money wasn't free, USA is over $33 Trillion in debt now (That's Bidenomics for you), soon you will be spending more on paying the interest on that debt every year than you spend on your armed forces. Huge amounts of US assets are being sold off to foreign countries.

Nothing is free, if you ask the devil to play the fiddle for you, he's gonna take your soul eventually.

Still, if you didn't get that "free" money, some illegal immigrant would be spending it in some swanky hotel that they all seem to be living in - then they would start bitching about you being a racist because they are not getting enough free shit.

 

[videogamefanatic]

... (That's Bidenomics for you)...

The national debt rose by 40% ($20.2T to $28.4T, so +$8.2T) during Trump's term. Biden's term so far has raised it by 17% ($28.4T to $33.4T, so +$5T). Unless spending changes *drastically*, I don't expect Biden's term to go much over 30%. Maybe he'll hit 40 somehow, who knows.

Let's look at other recent presidents. Obama's spending over two terms was +67% (recovering from 2008 was bound to do this). George W. Bush two terms was +105%. Clinton's two terms was +32%. George H W Bush's over one term was +54%. Reagan's two terms was a whopping +186%. Tell me again how high Biden's spending has been. If your complaint is that Biden's spending in particular is high, you need to chill and explain what the actual impact is because no president since (and including) Nixon seems to even be trying to break even.

It's almost like lots of people only complain about national debt when their opposition happens to be in power, no matter circumstances.

EDIT: Inflation is a whole other can of worms though. That does legitimately suck right now.

 

[supermist]

That money wasn't free, USA is over $33 Trillion in debt now (That's Bidenomics for you)

That all happened under Trump. Do you not understand the passage of time?

 

[Dark_Ansem]

That all happened under Trump. Do you not understand the passage of time?

Oh, if only that were the only limit.