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throwaway0a5e on Nov 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

>in fact it was well over 100% GDP in WWII

You can't win a war with sustainable budgeting.

If you have to use WW2 to prove that the national debt wasn't bad than that's probably a sign it's bad.

Enginerrrd on Nov 23, 2020 [–]

Yeah no kidding. If you have to compare your current status quo with probably the most extreme time period the US faced in the whole 20th century, it's definitely a bad sign.

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