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It is in fact true, and anyone who was being honest during the Trump administration was calling out the fact that he really wasn't following through on any kind of Republican or conservative fiscal or monetary policy. His budgets were larger than obamas, his deficits were larger than obamas, and the central bank under Jay Powell printed more money than any other Central banker.

Peter Schiff almost immediately called out Donald Trump because president Trump acted in a completely different manner than candidate Trump.

To be perfectly honest though, it was a problem before the pandemic, it just got worse afterwards.

I was listening to a speech from Thomas Sowell, and he was talking about the effects of Price controls. He said that when price controls happen either supply goes way down or quality goes way down.

Central banks are essentially price controls for money, and we sort of see it. Money is cheap, so money gets worse.

Problem as you say is that people start to rely on the price controls and so if you take them away it'll hurt a lot of people a lot while the market finds itself.

If he cut government for real, there would have been less federal spending. In a lot of ways, economically he was more left-wing than Bill Clinton.

In the case of Bill Clinton you can't completely give the credit to him because he also had a Republican legislature pushing him in that direction, but he still signed a lot of legislation that had Donald Trump signed it would have absolutely set the media on fire.

Arguably the federal government probably shouldn't be involved with any of those things anyway, so let's just give those the old snippy snip, cut everyone's taxes by 75%, and still have large budget surpluses you can put towards the overwhelming debt. If certain States want to have all that stuff, they can implement it themselves.

No lie detected. I think that that was the biggest win of the Trump presidency was helping people realize just how corrupt the Republicans were.

It sure seems like around the world people are growing a pair and not letting themselves be bullied into supporting the establishment.. you always have to be careful because politicians often end up being different than what they run as, but even up here in Soviet Canuckistan we seem on track to get a leader who understands what the country actually needs.

Australia has a neat system called Superannuation, where part of every paycheque is put into a fund you have some control over, and that's your personal social security fund.