{"id":13970,"date":"2016-04-08T01:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T01:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13970"},"modified":"2016-04-08T01:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T01:50:39","slug":"wipe-out-national-debt-in-eight-years-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13970","title":{"rendered":"Wipe out national debt in eight years? Wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/National-Debt.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13972\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13972\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/National-Debt-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"National-Debt\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/National-Debt-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/National-Debt.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The list of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s idiotic statements has gotten so long it&#8217;s becoming almost impossible to give all of them the attention they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>This one has flown largely past many in the media and the so-called Chattering Class. I&#8217;ll admit to being a bit slow on the fiscal uptake on this one.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican presidential frontrunner\u00a0recently vowed to eliminate the national debt in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>He would\u00a0wipe &#8230; it &#8230; out. Pfft! It would vanish. No more debt. We&#8217;re free of debt! In just eight years. Yes, Trump said <em>&#8220;I will do it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The debt is now about $20 <em>trillion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>How does this reality TV celebrity and real estate mogul-turned-politician propose to do this?<\/p>\n<p>He also intends to cut everyone&#8217;s taxes. He vows to rebuild a military complex he says &#8220;always loses&#8221; and has been &#8220;decimated&#8221; by the current president. He&#8217;s going to round up 11 or 12 million illegal immigrants and send them back to wherever they came from. He also says he won&#8217;t do anything to reform Social Security or Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he says he &#8212; yes, he alone &#8212; will eliminate the national debt in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>The way I figure it, Trump would have to veto every single spending bill that Congress approves. Then he would have to be sure Congress upheld every one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The annual federal budget totals about $4 trillion. So, if the government doesn&#8217;t spend <em>another nickel<\/em> for the next eight years, it could save $32 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Are we on board with that?<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen of the military, in the longest-shot possibility that Donald Trump gets elected president this fall, you should start preparing to fight for your country for free.<\/p>\n<p>This man&#8217;s idiocy is utterly boundless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s idiotic statements has gotten so long it&#8217;s becoming almost impossible to give all of them the attention they deserve. This one has flown largely past many in the media and the so-called Chattering Class. I&#8217;ll admit to being a bit slow on the fiscal uptake on this one. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wipe out national debt in eight years? 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