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https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/fiscal-catastrophe-us-treasury...

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 6:38pm:


You need to "pay attention", Greggery. 96.71% of small businesses fail in their first year, it can't be helped.

The big fella's plans for a successful economy were probably doomed from the start - particularly when Sleepy Joe left the country in such a mess.

The Autopen left the economy with an abysmal growth rate of 3.2%. Because of his pathetic mismanagement, it's trended slightly down to 0.5% today.

Still a "win", by anybody's standards, no?

To correct this mess, DL put in his fabbo tariffs, his tax cuts for the rich, his 90 deals in 90 days, drill baby drill and a few other measures, shorting the oil markets, etc. It'll take some time to turn things around, as you'd expect.

DL's brought inflation down to a respectable 3.3%, after Sleepy Joe left it at a disastrous rate of 2.9%.

Biden left office with an unemployment rate of 4.1%. Again, thanks to his ridiculous policies, it's risen to 4.4%. The stock market's probably not worth mentioning, given it goes up and down all the time.

Also, the mullahs have been messing around. DL can hardly be blamed for that.

Look, the economy's so overrated, anyway. The big fella's wondering whether to crash the whole thing and start over.  The Americans have become so entitled, they could do with the pain. As Aquascoot's pointed out, this would be the recession they had to have.

I think it's a smart move, no?

america today ...........

You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. 
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman.