RE: Today in History : USA national debt hits a staggering $1 trillion
It would really bet interesting to see how different things would have been if Ross Perot had won. I think he had the financial mind to do some of the things that people were hoping Trump would actually do. I think part of the problem with the 80's was the cold war and if there had not have been that fear, not as much spending would have been done towards the military. Realistically, it was probably our "need" to police the rest of the world that ultimately got us into trouble. Don't get me wrong, I am not an isolationist, and I do think we need to help out when civil injustices are being committed, but we are seriously sending a lot of money to places we shouldn't be. I think a lot of people throw the word Trillion around, but they don't understand the actual enormity of that word.
This blog has a good depiction https://www.kamcityblog.com/2011/11/trillion-here-trillion-there-soon-we.html
Ol' Ross Perot. There's more to the story with that guy. I seem to recall a point where it was looking like he was going to win the thing and then out of nowhere just decides to drop out. I think one day there will be an expose about the dirty behind the scenes type deep state stuff that was introduced into play during all that.
I hadn't considered the Cold War, but still, that had been going on for quite a while before Reagan was in office and it ended while he was there but the money just kept flowing out.
For sure! It was probably all the money they spent on the drug war :)
I would love to see the deep states most dirty of laundry aired, only thing it may be too ugly for some to believe!
My dad voted for Perot! I was in the 6th grade! lol