Balance the federal budget. That should be priority #1.
I have a son, he's 2. What did he do to deserve a trillion dollars in debt(Canada's national debt was 458 billion in 2008, 591 billion in 2012, and is 1.17 trillion in 2024)?
His job is to grow up healthy and to learn to speak and listen, to read and write, to use numbers. He's doing his job.
His job is not to pay for a bunch of goods and services I want "someone else" to pay for.
Americans have a similar story. In 2000 the federal debt was 4 trillion. Today it's 34 trillion.
All the people whining about the boomers should remember that millennials were a big part of the voter base through most of those trillions and it went to programs pandering to you, so don't act like our hands are clean.
I have a son, he's 2. What did he do to deserve a trillion dollars in debt(Canada's national debt was 458 billion in 2008, 591 billion in 2012, and is 1.17 trillion in 2024)?
His job is to grow up healthy and to learn to speak and listen, to read and write, to use numbers. He's doing his job.
His job is not to pay for a bunch of goods and services I want "someone else" to pay for.
Americans have a similar story. In 2000 the federal debt was 4 trillion. Today it's 34 trillion.
All the people whining about the boomers should remember that millennials were a big part of the voter base through most of those trillions and it went to programs pandering to you, so don't act like our hands are clean.
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@sj_zero Balancing the budget should be priority #2. Priority #1 should be taking care of the border.
The national debt matters little if we've got terrorists blowing everything up in five years because we didn't properly monitor who is going in or out
Fair enough, both are existential threats our kids pay for because we don't want to. However, most other things just aren't actually important.