They're the 4th largest producer of uranium in the world, otherwise we wouldn't give a **** about their terrorism.

Seems fake, why is it "an" and not "a"?

Debt is not necessarily a bad thing, growth can occur at a more rapid pace by spending a little more than you have. If you do this 50 years in a row in a responsible fashion, the debt will have increased a lot, but the percentage of GDP will be similar as it was to the beginning. You would have a much more advanced society than if you did not incur any debt.
You must also look into public and private debt in an economy and evaluate them together, often the people who hold the government's debt are its own citizens, so a large public debt can be offset by the private sector as the citizens are wealthier as a result. Canada is an example of a country with a relatively small public debt, but its private debt is very significant which raises concern.

Think of the country like a company that can increase its return on equity by carrying debt.
Problems occur when overall debt starts increasing too much, then if a crisis occurs you are restricted in what you can do to weather the storm as the debt may reach levels where the interest payments are greater than the benefit you receive from having a leveraged economy. You might have a death spiral occur at a certain point as well as the larger debt causes the country to pay a higher interest rate on their debt as their credit quality decreases making the country issue more and more in order to pay for the higher and higher interest rates they cause (Russia defaulted in the late 90s)

Yes

The direct quote is "an f-ing moron".

Who cares? This should be at the bottom of the barrel of our concerns, and donwe really want to be making some push to get Tillerson fired? He's one of the few sane people in there?

sane? dude is by all accounts completely worthless and way out of his depth

Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda

It is highly unusual for a Cabinet secretary to turn down money for his department. But more than five months into his tenure, Tillerson has not issued a simple request for the money earmarked for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, $60 million of which is now parked at the Pentagon. Another $19.8 million sits untouched at the State Department as Tillerson’s aides reject calls from career diplomats and members of Congress to put the money to work against America’s adversaries.

The $60 million will expire on Sept. 30 if not transferred to State by then, current and former State Department officials told POLITICO.

if tillerson resigns we have a chance to get an american confirmed as secretary of state, not a russian-medal-of-friendship international businessman

i'm convinced trump and putin had an arrangement where trump is to undermine US foreign policy as much as possible. i mean wtf is he doing otherwise

its all been way too obvious that theres probably no big mastermind plan simply because the guy is too stupid

nobody is that good of an actor

Lol Chris Hayes going with a single word "MORON" for the chyron.

I was merely clarifying the a/an situation, my dude. Besides, Tillerson is rumored to have a suicide pact with Mattis and Mnuchin where they'll all resign if one of them gets targeted by Big Orange.

He ran Exxon, he's definitely not out of his depth. And he's one of the few capable administrators in the Trump admin.

It'd make sense to protect Niger's uranium from falling into the hands of terrorists.

I can't really tell if you are serious. The odds that's trump would appoint someone more capable than Tillerson after his departure are near zero.

What things has he done in his post that show he's capable?

If you say so.

The bar is so low bro he didn’t take a dump in his pants on camera yet so he’s the genius of the administration.

I mean, to be fair, that is true

The skillsets needed to run an oil company dont likely overlap much with SOS. If anything he probably picked up some bad habits that should be deprogrammed.

Simply by doing nothing he's got to be like in the top 2 of cabinet members.

is there still a cabinet?

Yeah, but capable of what?

Capable of administering an organization that is massive and complex.

the simple fact that Tillerson had the balls to not deny he called trump a ****ing moron puts him at near hero status tbf