text: Gregory Schmitz - What is "Progressive" about digging the nation into $21 trillion in debt without any clear economic benefits? My 18-year-old is starting his adult life $65,000 in debt for government spending that didn't address any sort of long-term benefit to the economy. It was all short-term "fixes" that helped limited groups at the expense of the whole economy. The Republicans in Congress and President Trump are no prizes. There's strong evidence their understanding of economics is nil, but President Obama was acting like an 18-year-old with his first checkbook, writing on non-sufficient funds. Yes, the Republicans were right to oppose that sort of profligacy. Had they not done so, we would be $30 trillion or more in debt. Too bad we didn't elect someone for POTUS who understood that the answer to a fiscal crisis is not to overspend your revenue. That wasn't Clinton or Trump.Maybe it would have been Gary Johnson or Rand Paul, but the voters chose stupidly between two idiots.