uspez ban me . I post in rthedonald <| sep |> You can buy more upvotes for 5 schmeckles each . <| sep |> On the one hand , that ' s mean . On the other , while I sympathize with their loss , I don ' t wanna see those pictures all over my facebook either so bravo ! <| sep |> You just gave me a lesson in parenting ! <| sep |> k sending you the request <| sep |> imo people who only watched the game on youtube should buy it now too ! <| sep |> It took you 2 seconds to read that ? <| sep |> Shhh just let it happen <| sep |> The fools . everyone knows it ' s memester <| sep |> In general , yes . You don ' t want your debt to be higher than your GDP because then you get to the tipping point where it becomes almost impossible to pay it back . Now it is but one factor of many , in down times you should aim for a budget deficit to stimulate the economy , in up times you should attempt a surplus to pay down the debt and prevent the economy from overheating and generating bubbles . GOP seems to have it ass backwards . They inherited a surplus from Clinton , and cut taxes and spent their way to massive deficit spending . The economy overheated and low and behold , bubble popped . Once Obama took office , with the economy in free fall and the tax revenues suffering as a result , thats when the GOP started crying about the debt and talking about belt tightening . He helped get the deficit under control , but it is far from eliminated . Trump ' s proposed tax cut , military expenditures , and infrastructure investments is going to blow it to Reaganesque the patron saint of huge government deficits outside the context of a world war new levels . If anything causes the interest rates to go up , that will become a HUGE portion of our federal budget . We ' ll be spending so much on the interest on the debt that we ' ll have to squeeze out other programs . Default will become more and more likely , and then the real shit show begins . Lots of people ' s retirements will go up in smoke . Financial institutions will collapse . Inflation will go out of control as the government prints money to try to pay down it ' s debt . So yes , it does matter . It needs to be tended to carefully .