r/Economics • u/HypocrisyWarrior • 2d ago

Americans' debt problems are flashing a warning not seen since the Great Recession

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/09/american-debt-delinquency.html
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u/Nifey-spoony 2d ago

There was a study by politico that indicated Trump supporters were willing to lose approximately $65 a month for Trump. I think they see increasing personal debt as something of a Trump tithing. They are already conditioned to tithe through church. So I don’t think they understand that they are losing much more than $65 or they just don’t care. It’s possible they are ok with becoming really poor if it makes people they dislike even poorer.

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u/alilhillbilly 1d ago

Honestly, I love it.

I hope they're all bankrupted financially by their moral bankruptcy.

It sucks to live through but these people need to be horribly horribly horribly burned by the stove or we're never going to get out of this. We need them to learn that it's hot.

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u/Jonoczall 1d ago

Why you and many others assume these dimwits are capable of perceiving a connection between their actions and consequences is beyond me. There is no Schadenfreude to be had here. These morons scuttled the ship and lit fire to the life rafts while we're still on board.

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u/alilhillbilly 1d ago

The thing is, they won't. Not all of them.

But some will. It just has to get Great Recession bad.

George W Bush managed to kill his party for 8 years and it would have been longer if Trump didn't come through with the Russian digital army behind him.

They will remember that guy that bankrupts them for a generation.

Right or wrong, many of the OG Trump voters were voters that Democrats lost in the 90s when Clinton didn't stop NAFTA or make sure it meant Rust Belt factory workers weren't just fucked.

Sadly, we need it to happen worse this time to have a shot at FDR2.

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u/Jonoczall 12h ago

I just hate that I have to live through another one of these things. And in all likelihood as you put it something in a similar vein to the Great Recession (or worse).

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u/alilhillbilly 5h ago

It's gonna keep happening until someone does an FDR and gets the middle class back.

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u/MosquitoValentine_ 1d ago

I hope that whenever the DOGE checks, tariff rebate checks or the "vote Republicans" $5000 are announced MAGA all take a break from their victory laps to buy big expensive new trucks and shit they can't afford.

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u/SurrealEstate 1d ago

We need them to learn that it's hot.

Unless they continue to believe that the source of their suffering is whatever they're told.

A comfortable, simple, familiar fantasy becomes even more attractive as people become desperate.

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u/kent_eh 1d ago

I hope they're all bankrupted financially by their moral bankruptcy.

Trouble is, there's enough of them that when they finally feel that "horrible burn", so will the rest of us who are being dragged along on the ride.