Its one of those things that's a hard lesson to learn; the bell is run, the canary in the coal mine is yowling yet people do not listen. Then a country, or large organization, or a business is at the end of its ropes and hard decisions have to be made.
The bumbling idiots who lead us into the situation won't take the blame, the "mean guy" who makes the cuts to save the country does.
Was the USA failing before Trump took power? Most would say no. World's largest economy, and while it did have problems the nation was still an aspiration for many outside it.
Now it looks like the aspirations go elsewhere. And they do so because the cuts increased the problems, they did not save anything.
Core point aside, a nit to pick:
> the canary in the coal mine is yowling yet people do not listen
If the canary is making a noise, the coal mine is safe. They get sick and die quickly in bad air.
well I learned two malapropisms today. One the Canary, the other blinkenlights.
Regardless, governemnt spending and debt eventually gets hit with austerity if you can't grow your way out. Nobody wants to be greece.
> well I learned two malapropisms today. One the Canary, the other blinkenlights.
Not malapropisms in my opinion - a malapropism is someone using the wrong word such as “She’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”