r/Conservative • u/Pessimist2020 • Dec 22 '20

Americans Excitedly Anticipate Getting Paid With Their Own Money Satire - Flaired Users Only

https://babylonbee.com/news/americans-excitedly-anticipate-getting-paid-with-their-own-money
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u/11-Eleven-11 Conservative Dec 22 '20

Printing money is just stealing money from the future.

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u/Suwannee_Gator Dec 22 '20

Oh god, are they just printing the stimulus money???

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u/BeardMan66 Dec 22 '20

The US ran a 3 trillion (yeah with a ‘t’) deficit in 2020 alone.

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u/LukariBRo Dec 22 '20

That's just a drop in the bucket, except 2020 is arguably the year when it, and likely more, was actually necessary. There was so much unnecessary skyrocketing of the deficit over the past few years that it just makes us having to increase it even further much worse. It's like someone who was maxing out their credit card to live above their means loses their job and then no longer has a line of credit available to them and a massive reduction in income. We're quite fucked if we keep this up, but it's barely because of this year alone.