The US economy is insane. The pace of inflation remains about twice as high as before Jan '21 and there's no signs of slowing with the Treasury borrowing five hundred billion this month alone.

US debt interest bill rockets past a cool one trillion a year. It has doubled in 19 months. It is equivalent to 16.3% of the entire Federal budget for fiscal year 2022.

America simply must pull its horns in but it's being run by ideological lunatics seemingly obsessed with running this full steam ahead into the ground until the markets crash it all.

When this falls do you think anyone will be held to account? Are these clowns ever held to account? If anything they just reward themselves for failure.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

“Foreign wars” have been “funded” by leading powers since the day they first set sail.

A war is only foreign if it has no potential to impact you and in today’s shrinking world that doesn’t exclude very many.

Avoiding a WW3 is clearly the over-riding objective but ignoring issues and allowing them to fester and grow results in more chance of that happening than lancing the boil now. Only the weak, the ideologically malnourished or the morally corrupt stick their heads in the sand and pretend it’s nothing to do with them.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Vivek Ramaswamy appears to be trying to go out of his way to be even more controversial, ridiculous and unpleasant than Donald Trump. Which is quite a task, but he seems to be achieving it.

Is he bright? Probably, but he wouldn’t be the first politician to be both bright and also misguided and dangerous and that he certainly is. Some of his ideas border on the edge of insanity.

Nikki Haley got it right. He is indeed “scum”. Let’s hope that sticks.

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The nuclear age brings new realities. That’s true. You can no longer completely dominate or remove threats from those with nuclear weapons.

However the same principles apply as ever they did. You may not be able to remove a boil, but you can limit its capacity to spread by reducing its size and effectiveness, being careful not to step over the red line.

Assured mutual destruction is a horrible concept but it is also a very powerful deterrent.

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People try things for the best of intentions and sometimes they fail.

This looks like a prime example.

For the record I have never thought decriminalisation of drug use to be a sensible policy but this is not an area of expertise for me, and very little knowledge.

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Fair enough, although I think the idea that decriminalising drugs is a pipe dream for the left. Much the same as the Universal Basic Income the facts just don't back up the rhetoric.

Give an inch and people will take a mile, a cliche that is appropriate in this case.

Edited by Badger11 (09 Nov 2023 10.49am)

One more point