Deputies: Worker fatally stabs Trump-loving boss in fight

Don't mess with those anti-government types, even if you are MAGA. 

Relax you big, bloated, intrusive government lovers this probably won’t go down in the history books like the shot heard around the world. The country isn’t ready for revolution with these prosperous and peaceful times under Trumps command. 

They ran over and saw Toney standing over Knight, stabbing him with a trowel, according to the arrest affidavit.

With a TROWEL?

Dude!

Pushed wi th some force between the ribs can sever a heart, don't you think?

Sure, but it sounds terribly painful. Nothing like being “stabbed” with a giant, blunt blade. **shudder**

The trowels I use for archeological digs are extremely sharp.

Well it appears those who are actually anti government are realizing that the maga followers aren't.  It's been a big fat lie riddled with corruption and an anti American agenda.  

Oh well......

Everyone knows that or he would have shut the government down instead of signing the ridiculous spending bills congress keeps sending to him. Unfortunately most people think big government is good for America. The tea partiers and freedom caucus are the minority. 

Too many Americans do love their free stuff.   I mean why worry right?   Just kick the can down the road and let someone else deal with the snowballing debt.

With nearly 50% of Americans not funding the Feds main tax revenue source (FIT) not enough people have a dog in the hunt to care.   This "let someone else pay for it" mentality is not going to end well for the poor saps who eventually get stuck with the bill.

Who owns the huge and growing U.S. national debt? By and large, Americans. Some 70% of the national debt is owned by domestic government, institutions investors and the Federal Reserve. A shade under 30% is owned by foreign entities, according to the latest information from the U.S.   Treasury .

Nah, the bottom line it IS simply kicking the can down the road on future generations.   Both parties have shown no desire to stop spending.   Budgets cuts are a virtually impossibility to make today so the only solution will be to ultimately raise taxes to pay for it.

Many think that's a good thing.   They won't if and when their own taxes go up but as long as it doesn't affect them personally, they are good with it.

Nothing responsible about that.   Nothing at all.

As long as the US can print its own money, it will NEVER default on the national debt.  The world will end first. 

That’s a crock. The Germans could print their own money and history has proven how harmful the hyperinflation can be. The wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread wasn’t a joke. It’s now happening in Venezuela. 
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America doesn't have "debt" at all; it has "sovereign debt", and honestly, the two are so different that there really should be a different word.

"Sovereign Debt" refers to the fact that, in addition to spending money and collecting taxes, the U.S. government is also the issuer of currency. Dollars are an exchangeable certificate, a kind of legal document, that are created by our government so that we can have a currency, do business, and in general have an economy. I'm referring to paper dollar bills,  but also "dollars" in bank accounts, which in reality are just numbers in a computer (the vast majority of dollars in the world are merely these numbers). Dollars have no inherent value (the paper itself is worth very little); instead, they have value because our government accepts them to cancel any debt you have to the government (taxes are the most obvious and common debt a person can have to the government). Also, dollars are legally empowered to cancel any debt between two individuals (this is what it means when the dollar bill says "Legal Tender for All Debts, Public and Private"). So the government creates "dollars", and legally empowers them as debt-canceling certificates. This gives them value, because all economic transactions involve at least a temporary debt. You create a debt when you put a box of Cheerios in your cart at the supermarket; you then cancel that debt when you give the cashier some dollars, and you walk out of the store "square" again.

So all U.S. government debt is in dollars... and dollars are the thing that our government creates at will. This is a very different dynamic than owing someone a bar of gold, which you would then have to work or trade for if you wanted to cancel your debt. Our government has infinity dollars, because it has the legal authority to create dollars; this is the source of the maxim that "Government checks don't bounce."

So the debt *doesn't* matter in the sense that we might run out of dollars, or somehow be unable to repay the debt, or even that it would be difficult to repay the debt. In fact, the debt is being repaid constantly! And none of us even notice! That's because the way we account for debt is through something called a Treasury Security, a government certificate that is redeemable for a certain amount of dollars. Any time the U.S. goes "into debt", the Treasury issues one of these Securities, and they are auctioned off for a certain amount of dollars (somewhat less than they will be redeemable for). When the time period (anywhere from 30 days to a year) is up, the person who bought it cashes it in for a slightly greater amount than they paid; a safe and predictable investment. In this process, dollars and Treasury Securities (both are types of government "money") are freely created and destroyed as a routine part of conducting the transactions. There's nothing particularly monumental about these acts; in reality its just a matter of adjusting the quantities stored inside the computer (where most dollars live). So while we think of the debt as this giant, ever-expanding IOU, in fact its constantly being repaid and then re-created. Since both dollars and treasury securities are essentially created out of thin air, there is no growing pressure or problem related to the quantity of money being exchanged; it grows as our economy grows.

The debt *does* matter in some ways, but these aren't what one would expect. The debt is a record of the growth of the money supply; whenever the government "gives out" (spends) more than it "takes in" (taxes), the total amount of money out in the economy increases. And there are various good and bad outcomes associated with growing the money supply. Growing it too fast creates inflation, too slow creates deflation and stagnation. So it's an important indicator in Monetary Policy, which is the maintenance of the currency that the government creates. But that's a subtle and complicated topic; in the general sense, the debt doesn't matter because, as I said, it's not really debt.

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"Debt" matters.   Especially when congress gets in the habit of operating in a Budget Deficit all the time.   Each year that happens it adds to the National Debt and ilke i said, sooner or later the debt comes due.

Budget surpluses are possible and congress can and has operated budget surpluses not long ago in the late 90's and early 2000's.   Along the way wars, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, bailouts, stimulus acts and debt crisis have all worked to derail a balanced budget.

We should demand a balanced budget in all but the most extreme circumstances.   The current thinking of "acceptable debt" is a dangerous long term trend for the future of this country.   Dangerous indeed.

Time to feed the pig ..... the Federal pig and right now that swine is Hogzilla!