about 600 billion all the way on the left side of that chart that is nothing to sneeze at. but that looks downright tiny compared to right now, we d killed for a number like that, you d have the deficit hawks dancing in the streets. so what happened? well, covid right. the deficits spike to run $3 trillion a year during covid, we had bailouts and stimulus checks and small business loans. all of that was deemed necessary, but it was offensive. what s concerning here though, is of course covid is over deficits are still very high. they re actually going even higher and it s unusual because normally that s something you see when the economy is in trouble, when unemployment is high, right now, we have low unemployment and high deficits. it s very hard or to make sense of this, listen, this is a bipartisan problem, right? both parties are to blame here. i think the good news is everyone agrees this is not sustainable. the bad news is it s going to take some bipartisan co
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