>  MP> necessarily say that for the rest of the field.  It is probably 
too early
>  MP> to tell, but there could be other candidates who emerge that 
would not be
>  MP> as radical as the ones making the most noise right now.
> 
> But doesn't it seem like it's our destiny to get a radical who will 
double or
> triple our debt? I hope not - but they're all trying to outdo each 
other.

Most of that problem is the automatic "entitlement" spending.

It took about 210 years and 41 presidencies to run up a national debt 
of one trillion dollars.  That period included the Civil War, the 
Spanish-American War, World Wars one and two, Korea and most of Vietnam.

It took until about 1992 - roughly 20 more years - to add another 
trillion dollars to that debt.

Clinton inherited that two trillion dollar debt and in eight years he 
doubled it to four trillion (which puts the lie to the claim that he 
balanced the federal budget).

Bush minor inherited Clinton's four trillion dollar debt and doubled it 
to eight trillion.

Obama took that eight trillion debt and more than doubled it to  nearly 
eighteen trillion.  Today it's up somewhere around 22 trillion.

73 percent of all national government spending is on the Corruptocrats' 
vote-buying "entitlement" programs.  Defense gets 15% and interest on 
the debt is a bit more than six percent, which leaves about six percent 
for the whole rest of the government.


> 
> I guess Biden could be a bit more secure. Let's see how they debate 
in their
> primaries and we'll revisit this question.
> 
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