Originally Posted by 90 dB
Originally Posted by Gavin Sinclair
Apples are being compared to the orange man here smile By those figures, Trump has added 4.78 trillion in 3 years. If he were to serve 8 years like Obama at that rate he would add 12.75 trillion, easily surpassing Obama.

That much is fact derived straight from the charts and numbers you pointed us to. After that, admittedly, you get into opinion or conflicting economic theory. Obama's addition to the debt was mostly because of the stimulus to dig the country out of the great recession. He handed over a booming economy. Traditional economic theory is that you use that time to try to reduce deficits and debt.

Most analysts expect that under the present administration the debt will grow by considerably more than that. Again, that is open to debate.






Not true. Nowhere in that article was that statement made. The actual statement was:


"As you can see, Barack Obama takes the crown with almost $9 trillion added to the heap, though Trump may surpass that by the time he’s done."


Quite a stretch.




I wasn't saying that the article was factually incorrect. I noted that sentence. I was saying that your post was factually incorrect because you said that the article refuted what John said. The only way to arrive at that conclusion was either deliberately or accidentally to misinterpret the data. If you were posting it to lend support to John's statement, you should have said so instead of telling him that he was factually incorrect and was "entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts."

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