Most of your personal wealth is built on that black hole.

30T+ printing and issuing into the economy is what has ran the economy the past 20+ years.

Go check your balances from 2000, and multiply it by 1.03 26 times to see how much you have benefitted from deficit spending.

A doctor with exclusively Medicare patients will complain they have to pay more Medicare taxes because .gov sucks.

The wealth gap has gotten so much larger because wealthy people are better at retaining money from goods and services and poor/old people are better at getting the government to issue money to them to consume goods and services.

The deficit money comes off the printing press and goes to whatever need based program is your favorite and lands in “rich people” wallets.

The last dentist you flew billed Medicaid at a deficit loss for filling cavities and bought an airline ticket.

In other countries the Pilot and dentist make less and the kid still has tooth pain or a missing tooth, the money never showed up from the deficit printer.

I take Iran's 'Death to America' chants about as seriously as you take Trump's tweets. They've been doing it for 47 years. They're the nation equivalent of a Yorkshire Terrier that won't stop barking. No, I don't want them having a nuclear weapon either, but I also don't think they're stupid enough to use one as a first strike option.

You may be right. But we are all informed by and sometimes victims of our experiences.Perhaps I just have more experience with fundamentalist Islam than you do. It’s not about race or ethnicity, we have had our crazies too. Hale-Bopp cult, Jim Jones of Jamestown (in)fame, Waco cult, just to name a few. But none of them had nukes or ICBMs to deliver them

It’s cute that anyone thinks we can prevent a country from having nukes by force.

Unfortunately IL takes everything they say literally, for good reasons.

Also unlike even DPRK, there are probably people in the fundamentalist wing of IR politics who would be OK with kicking off end of days... using a nuclear weapon unfortunately matches up nicely with a key part of their religious mythology. Going to paradise this week might seem rational to some of them. Then you have to wonder how far up the hierarchy are they and how much influence do they have.

Not unfortunate at all. The same people who say don't take what they say seriously are the same people who point fingers at others on why something wasn't done earlier before tragedies like 9/11.

Iran has killed enough Americans and others since 1979 that we don't even need to question the validity of "Death to America"

They spent millions investing in Syria and Hezbollah and nukes to achieve their stated goals.

Not being good enough to accomplish something is no where close to the same as exercising good discipline. When have they ever shown restraint?

They are a Yorkshire terrier that has a bite history a mile long and only isn’t biting when recovering from its beatings from biting.

I think this regime has enjoyed power and all of its spoils for 47 years and wants to keep it that way. Using religion as a tool of manipulation has been an incredibly effective means across many civilizations for centuries. This is no different.

Do you feel the same way about Trump's genocidal threats towards Iran. I'm guessing no.

Except he hasn't made a genocide threat so there is that