{"id":28973,"date":"2016-08-11T13:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=28973"},"modified":"2016-08-11T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:07:49","slug":"20-trillion-debt-trump-says-time-borrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/20-trillion-debt-trump-says-time-borrow\/","title":{"rendered":"With $20 Trillion in Debt, Trump Says It&#8217;s Time to Borrow More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has been very vocal about the mountain of debt DC has piled on the American people, criticizing all parties responsible including obama (who doubled it) and Clinton (who wants to spend even more). The $20 trillion (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/#\">$19.4<\/a>) in US national debt is just on the surface there is another est <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/#\">$60 trillion<\/a> in total US debt and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/#\">$103 trillion<\/a> in unfunded liabilities. The nations &#8220;economic recovery&#8221; is the weakest since 1949. All this and much more Trump is well aware of.<\/p>\n<p>Today on CNBC Trump said now is the time to borrow more because rates are so low&#8230; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0cd68kcAzw?start=869&amp;end=940\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>TrumpTrain the US is broke we are borrowing money at an extremely dangerous level, can you please explain his position because it sounds a lot like when Joe Biden said &#8220;we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt&#8221;? <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LHFEcyUNBjg?rel=0\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before you answer you do understand borrowing more money simply means printing more which only devalues the dollar even more than it is already! Again Trump is well aware of this, he attacks China for doing it, so why call for economic actions that will only take us deeper into the hole?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has been very vocal about the mountain of debt DC has piled on the American people, criticizing all parties responsible including obama (who doubled it) and Clinton (who wants to spend even more)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13,2971],"tags":[1574,843,3058,43059],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Trump-Says-Its-Time-to-Borrow-More.png?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28975,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions\/28975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}