[TD Hounds]

I believe you are mistaken that the trade deficit has a correlation to the national debt.  The national debt is to be blamed on politicians from both parties who cannot balance a budget.  They need to cut spending and increase revenue, which they simply can't seem to do because of all the special interest groups, lobbyist, etc. that they are beholden to. 

Our last 2 Presidents are the biggest culprits of the deficit and I'm not expecting it to get any better over the next 4 years.

 Did you even try and research or google it to make sure you weren’t wrong? Of course not….The correlation comes through the GDP, I’m not going over it again because obviously you didn’t get it the first time your not gonna get it the second time because it’s what you believe, thats the problem…..And it doesn’t really matter, in your fantasy land we’re so rich we should do nothing but pump hugs, kisses, and fist bumps everywhere no matter the costs…..And your wrong Obama was more responsible for the national debt soaring than either Trump or Biden….

You're right in that I didn't research it at all.  I realize that it is a part of the equation, I just don't think it's a big part.  It's my opinion that Politicians are the problem.  Rand Paul may be the only one in Washington who understands fiscal responsibility well enough to be able to tackle the deficit, but he would have my vote because it may be the greatest danger facing the US going forward.  

I may have to look into Obama and the deficit when I have time, but it seems like everything that I have seen over the past 2-3 years has Biden & Trump adding more to the deficit than anyone prior.  Again, I'm going on memory, and the older I get the worse it seems to betray me, although I'm not nearly as old as our last 2 Potus have been.

Then you’d be wrong again, if you notice The Real Thing understood exactly what I was talking about with GDP and our national debt….. Yes politicians are the problem but not for the reasons your thinking, they’ve created this problem with their march towards globalization and sending as much of our industrial power as possible to other countries…. Of course they have no fiscal restraint but the country isn’t taking in the tax revenue it should be with all the industrialization lost…. It’s the biggest reason they hate Trump he calls them out for passing NAFTA and he’s not going along with the plans for globalization at all…..

Nafta was replaced by the USMCA trade agreement, which is suppose to be in place now.

It doesn’t matter different name for same results, that’s the problem, it’s supposed to be a free trade agreement which means there where no tariffs on each others products, the United States followed the agreement, guess who didn’t?  The same two whining now about reciprocal tariffs