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See my statement above.
It may be correct. But irrelevant. They're using their own money to be irresponsible.

Are you going to have a fit if I go out to eat every day and spend 4k a month in rent? No, because I use my own money to do so.

The states listed by banderl are sucking FEDERAL money up... my money, your money.... they sure as hell better be fiscally responsible.

If every state and the nation would have codified into law a balanced budget none of this would be an issue.

What does this have to do with the taker states?

Were you proud of Obama, tail?

He started from a much more precarious spot than Trump, pulling America out of a deep hole, one that we kept falling into for the first two months of his term before the numbers started reversing and becoming positive once more...

and Obama left Trump with a healthy starting point...

I prolly won't be around when objective historians evaluate Obama's presidency and how it compared to Trump's, and all the others before them...it's a little bit early, but I sense how they'll be ranked...

You know the one thing I would have liked trump to change?
Health care.

I disliked ACA.

But his method of trying to get rid of it was moronic. It appeared that he didn't even understand what it did, or how it would be removed. His attempts at both removing it, but trying to promise to his base that they still could be insured even though they couldn't possibly afford insurance, and there's no way an insurance company would keep them with their diabeetus.... was guaranteed to hurt people.

Now, his backdoor way of removing the mandate, but keeping it in place, ensuring that anyone on it who wanted to be on it will be azz raped by the insurance companies is ham fisted and deceptive.

I disliked the implementation of the ACA, I understood that it was a horribly complicated problem, and that once it was put in place it would be an even bigger challenge to remove. That's one thing he said he was going to do which I would have been happy if he did well.

He didn't do it well.

He did it in probably the worst way possible. Because he's a f$ckwit moron. Now... to be fair, not all of this is his fault. He was crippled by the fact that his voting base was too stupid to understand what the ACA was, and what it meant to them... so he couldn't possibly do what his base wanted without also hurting his base. But he handled the problem in a very trump manner. He told everyone involved that he would do everything they wanted and it would be the very best removal of healthcare ever where health insurance would be removed but they would all be insured by the best non existent insurance. And when it became clear that was impossible, and congress wouldn't vote on his mess.... he just took out the mandate, making sure the entire program will be a fiasco.