Dec 17, 2016 ~ Teresa Mull, 'Teacher Pension Crisis Is Punishing Children and Taxpayers' - $500 Billion shortfall - further proof that public sector unions and pension systems in general are unsustainable
Sep 18, 2017 ~ National Debt Right Now exceeds $20 Trillion - good break down of how serious a problem it is - soon the interest itself will swamp us as interest rates must eventually rise - spiraling toward bankruptcy
Dec 28, 2017 ~ Social Security Beneficiaries Hit Record 62 million people including those on disability and dependents - now just 2 workers for every beneficiary, trillions in unfunded liabilities - no politician willing to address the shortfall.
Jan 8, 2018 ~ America Needs a Balanced Budget Amendment now more than ever - Transfer payments are now about 70 percent of federal spending - as long as politicians are allowed to spend borrowed money, they will beat politicians who try to be responsible
Apr 1, 2018 ~ National Review Editorial Board, The Omnibus Disgrace - Loaded with Pork - fiscally irresponsible and not what conservatives want - had to give dems everything just to get some additional military spending.
Jul 29, 2018 ~ GOP apparently no longer interested in fiscal responsibility and debt now that in power - Only a few like Rand Paul take a stand against irresponsible budget - pols have no incentive to cut. In a debt death spiral but no one seems to care.
Sep 22, 2018 ~ Tax cuts already paying for themselves but new spending has outpaced the revenue gains - On track for Trillion dollar deficits again - current debt $21T - on track to top $30T by 2025 - unsustainable
Oct 21, 2018 ~ Deficit hits $779 billion for FY2018 - Controlling the Debt Is Gonna Be Painful - It is a lie that the deficit is mostly caused by the tax cuts - but it is true that disaster awaits if unsustainable entitlements are not addressed.
Mar 19, 2019 ~ Kevin Williamson article, 'Just Stop Spending'. He points out the GOP used to be for balanced budgets. Some economists say deficits are useful during recessions or war but now we run them continuously. But dems vilify any cut no matter how small. Cuts can't compete with free.
Sep 13, 2019 ~ Deficit exceeds $1 Trillion dollars. Highest in 7 years. Dems blame on the tax cuts but tax revenues are actually up since the tax cuts. The unsustainable spending must be reduced. But all dem campaign promises would lead to much higher spending. The opposite of what's needed.
Dec 11, 2019 ~ John Stossel, 'The Forgotten Debt'. Stossel rightly reminds us that the debt is $23 trillion and increasing about $1 trillion a year. This is clearly unsustainable but it is politically impossible for anyone to address it. Even talks of slowing the growth are met with howls.
Jan 31, 2020 ~ Neil Patel 'Our Coming Debt Crisis'. Patel demonstrates why the party is almost over. The level of borrowing that started with Bush is clearly unsustainable for much longer. Our debt to GDP ratio is now over 100%. Addressing it is political suicide so neither party is willing.
Feb 11, 2020 ~ Stephen Moore, 'Defusing the Debt Bomb'. Debunks myths like 'Trump caused these deficits'. No they were 'baked into the cake' from decades of passing unaffordable programs. 'Trump tax cuts caused the deficit'. No, the tax cuts increased, not decreased tax revenue. Dems worse.
Mar 5, 2021 ~ Neil Patel, 'Time to Start Talking About America's Coming Bankruptcy' ' why are we ignoring this obvious and impending catastrophe?' 'At some point... the interest we pay on our debt will be so high we will not be able to afford the rest of our budget.' Political loser to address
Apr 7, 2021 ~ Philip Klein, 'Unlike Obama, Biden Doesn’t Even Pretend to Care about Tackling Our Historic Debt' Obama, 'We cannot, and will not, sustain deficits like these without end... I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.' Now we add $Trillions left and right.
May 12, 2021 ~ Philip Klein, 'Inflation Soars as Biden Pushes for $4 Trillion in More Spending' The CPI increased '4.2% over the last 12 months, which is the highest increase since 2008.' Democrats think they can print countless trillions and not cause inflation. Zero economic understanding.
Jul 27, 2021 ~ Charles Cooke, 'We’re Not Going to Fix Our Spending Crisis' "We are told from time to time that we will eventually hit a crisis that will serve to wake us up. But, if anything, the opposite is likely true." Spending is so out of control. But no one will be allowed to stop it.
Oct 10, 2021 ~ Ben Shapiro, "No, Government Spending Isn't 'Zero Cost'" Really sad that an article with this title would have to be written but the Biden administration is actually claiming a $3.5 Trillion "reconciliation package will cost 0 dollars" and the lapdog #FakeNews is playing along.
Nov 1, 2021 ~ Cori Bush says Joe Manchin is "anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant" for being against a multi trillion dollar 'Build Back Better' spending program that we can't actually afford. This is all the Democrats do. Vote the way we want or we'll falsely call you names!
Jan 28, 2022 ~ Terry Jeffrey 'Debt Up $2 Trillion in 1 Year of Biden' "The [US] had existed for 210 years, and 40 presidents had served as this nation's chief executive, before the debt first topped $2 trillion in 1986." This is beyond unsustainable but all Dems can talk about is spending more.
Jun 26, 2022 ~ Kevin Williamson, 'Here Comes Fiscal Armageddon' "Fiscal Armageddon is what will happen when the U.S. government’s debt load exceeds its ability to comfortably service that debt." Will be spending more to service debt than anything else. Gov't will choose easy option, inflation.
Aug 23, 2022 ~ The error or fraud paid in #COVID19 unemployment benefits now tops $163 billion!!! Many more investigations are pending or cannot be practically done so the total could actually be much greater. Possibly the largest fraud in the history of the United States.
Aug 27, 2022 ~ A Penn Wharton Budget Model analysis of Biden's illegal student loan 'forgiveness' program reveals that "the total plan costs could exceed $1 trillion." The unaffordable $330 billion price tag was apparently too low. Its over $500 billion in forgiveness alone, plus other costs.
Oct 17, 2022 ~ Brian C. Joondeph, 'The National Debt Elephant in the Room' "Each % increase of the federal funds rate translates into over $300 billion in annual interest payments." "There are no good solutions." Printing money causes more inflation, higher interest.
Feb 3, 2023 ~ Neil Patel, 'The Truth About the Debt Limit Fight' Blame on both sides. Unsustainable mess. Dems always ignore. GOP ignores during GOP presidencies. "Fixing this will be painful. The longer we wait to begin fixing it, the worse the pain is likely to be."
Apr 1, 2023 ~ Vice President Kamala Harris visited Ghana, Africa and promised to give them $139 million. We are borrowing money like crazy, then printing more causing high inflation, yet we can hand out hundreds of millions around the world.
May 31, 2023 ~ Republicans and Democrats trim a tiny amount off of our exploding, unsustainable spending to do what they have always done: kick the can down the road as it gets worse and worse. @RepNancyMace explains: "After factoring in a small cut to discretionary spending over the next 2 yrs, we are still talking about ~$6T more or less in spending bc of large increases in spending elsewhere. ... Govt grew massively over the past 3 years. This growth was supposed to be emergency funding only during COVID. During this time, govt grew 40% or by $2 trillion from 2019 to 2023. We went from spending just over $4T to spending just over $6T." Democrats and the #FakeNews lie about "deep cuts" when spending has really grown by $2T in just a few years! Everyone knows this is unsustainable but no one has the courage to deal with it. Most will be out of power by the time it really goes bust reducing their incentive to do the right thing. The majority would not go along with seriously dealing with the problem anyway.
Aug 3, 2023 ~ Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States of America's Default Rating to AA+ from AAA. The Biden admin. blames Trump. The US is $32 Trillion in debt and all the Democrats can talk about is spending more. They would have spent far more were it not for JUST 2 sane Democrats.
Sep 13, 2023 ~ Fiscal 2023 the second straight year that the federal debt has increased by more than $2 trillion! These are record deficits and Biden goes around claiming he's a deficit CUTTER. The man lies non-stop. But his lies are not mere exaggerations. They are the opposite of the truth.
Oct 1, 2023 ~ Congressman Jamaal Bowman D-NY is caught on camera pulling a fire alarm to prevent a vote on the debt ceiling in Congress, a felony. Bowman, who used to be a high school principal, claims he didn't know pulling a fire alarm would set off a fire alarm. He thought it opened a door.
Oct 19, 2023 ~ Biden says “Today I am also announcing $100 million in new U.S. funding for humanitarian assistance in both Gaza and the West Bank." In the past all such aid to the Palestinians ended up in the hands of Hamas and other terrorists but Biden said "You better not do that this time!"
Jan 14, 2024 ~ Biden admin doles out $600 million to activist groups, universities for 'environmental justice' The US is drowning in debt but Biden doles billions to left wing orgs. "The $600 million announced on Wednesday is part of a larger $3 billion spending blitz in support of 'environmental justice' made possible by provisions in the IRA." Pure vote buying.
Mar 2, 2024 ~ Victor Davis Hanson, 'American Paralysis and Decline' Another insightful article by VDH. "We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies." We are unwilling to fix our worst problems because we don't have the stomach for what needs to be done. The flood of illegal immigration, the unsustainable national debt, rampant shoplifting and other crimes, the homeless, corrupt prosecutors who destroy political opponents on fake charges. Everyone knows we can't ignore these problems and survive but no one is willing to address them for fear of being called a 'racist' or other criticism.
Jul 16, 2024 ~ 'Debt Up $7 Trillion Under Biden' My God, $7 Trillion in less than 4 years and the fool has the gall to brag about his handling of the deficit. He's run up more debt than any other President! This is way unsustainable. Democrats will bankrupt us!
Jul 29, 2024 ~ 'Yellen: By the Way, We're Going to Need Another $3 Trillion per Year for Climate Change' These people cannot bankrupt the United States fast enough. We're running trillion dollar deficits and these fools want triple our insolvency. Complete maniacs. She absurdly tries to sell this massively unaffordable waste of money as a "big economic opportunity." "Of course, it really is a massive economic opportunity if you happen to own or have stock in one of the many 'green energy' companies that have been cropping up. It's also a wonderful opportunity for China and any other nations that are sitting on the largest stockpiles of rare-earth metals needed to build all of the batteries required to drive all of this nonsense. But for everyone else, it's a massive, pointless money sink."
Oct 13, 2024 ~ 'I Can't Even Begin to Pretend I Understand What's Going on in Chicago' The corruption is off the charts even by Chicago standards. Mayor Brandon Johnson wanted to take out a $300M high interest loan for schools that even the Chicago school board thought was reckless and unaffordable. So Johnson got rid of the entire board and replaced them with his cronies. He can't bankrupt the city fast enough.
Oct 26, 2024 ~ 'Government Schools Are a Jobs Program for Unions' More details come out on why Chicago schools are so horrible even though they are bankrupting the city. Chicago took $2.8 Billion in Covid money and hired 8,000 people, most not even teachers. Which is insane because the money was a one time allocation. Now when they can't afford what then did, Johnson wants to take out a $300 million high interest loan to keep the insanity going. The board rejects because its crazy so he gets rid of the whole board and replaces them with yes-men. Meanwhile, students in Chicago can't read, write or do math but they spend orders of magnitude more money than almost any school districts. “It is a level of dysfunction that feels beyond destabilizing."
Nov 16, 2024 ~ 'How Elon Musk’s DOGE Will Work' Trump appoints Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)" DOGE will attempt to cut the 428 government agencies to under 100 cutting trillions from the budget. Balanced budget?
Feb 3, 2025 ~ "‘Beyond Repair’: Musk Says Trump Has Given The Go-Ahead To ‘Get Rid Of’ USAID" Trump shuts down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). They spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars around the world on many wasteful things. Musk, "It is also incredibly politically partisan and has been supporting radical Left causes throughout the world, including things that are anti-American which is insane." Here is a good but partial list of the insane things USAID has been spending our money on!
Feb 26, 2025 ~ 'It's Your Own Damn Fault, Liberals' If we addressed the national debt decades ago (like when Ross Perot warned us), the remedies could have been much easier.
"For decades, federal spending has been skyrocketing so fast that the debt accumulated has become totally unsustainable. As in Great Depression is coming unsustainable. Congress has been unwilling to cut anything. Annual deficits have been exceeding $2 trillion a year with no end in their acceleration. Even the most modest cut is fought against so viciously that the problem is never addressed."
"The debt ($32.5T) is cancer. It was diagnosed at stage 1 but no treatment was given. Stage 2 came, still no treatment. Stage 3? Who wants to endure chemo? So here we are at stage 4 and people are screaming about the radical surgery and chemo because it hurts so much and makes us feel ill."
"The United States will not survive without radical surgery and nasty chemo. It is that simple. The patient isn't going to feel good during the treatment. It will suck, but blaming the doctor and delaying the treatment leaves you one step closer to death."
"Liberals built a system that guaranteed maximum pain if it ever were reformed. Every single sob story--and some will be real--is on the left. The only alternative to DOGE right now is waiting for fiscal death. Every sob story you hear right now will be duplicated a thousand or hundred thousand times because what can't go on forever never does."
Feb 28, 2025 ~ 'Trump Signs Executive Order Giving DOGE More Power' Musk, "The overall goal here with the DOGE team is to address the enormous deficit. We simply cannot sustain as a country two-trillion-dollar deficits. Just the interest on the debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending." "The order requires 'Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, [to] conduct a comprehensive review of each agency’s contracting policies, procedures, and personnel.'"
Mar 1, 2025 ~ 'Doge Cancels $52M U.S. Taxpayer Funds to World Economic Forum' Unreal how much money (that we don't even have) we were lighting on fire before DOGE investigated.
Mar 23, 2025 ~ "Maher: Biden Was ‘Just Funneling‘ Green Money to Groups that Didn‘t Deserve It" While discussing the federal Department of Education, Maher said that while the department likely does some good things, “it also looks like some of these places are just funneling money to people who are not solving the problem.”
"I saw that story about the 20 billion that went out the door after Biden lost, the EPA — it wasn’t the EPA or was it the EPA — but there was 20 billion dollars that they shoveled to groups because Trump was coming and they were going to reverse all this stuff. And it supposedly [went to] environmental groups. And they were not really environmental groups and they had no experience in doing it. Like I said before, I care about the plastics. Do I think this money was going to get rid of the plastics in my brain? I do not."
Mar 30, 2025 ~ "DOGE: Department of Labor Cancels $577 Million in 'America Last' Grants, Including 'Gender Equity in the Mexican Workplace'" Its really unbelievable how much money was being flushed down the toilet on woke nonsense. "Another $12.2 million was for 'worker empowerment in South America,' and $6.25 million was for 'improving respect for Worker’s rights in agricultural supply chains' in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador." These things would be bad enough if we weren't running massive deficits.
Apr 5, 2025 ~ 'We've Been Played – Badly' "The efforts of DOGE and Benz—with the express support and encouragement of Donald Trump—have shown that we know nothing about how our government works. Untold billions—or trillions—were sent to hundreds of NGOs whose interests and purposes were not necessarily aligned with those of the American people. Stacey Abrams, noted election denier from Georgia, is one of the most infamous participants in such antics. Her NGO received $2 billion ostensibly to help people purchase more energy efficient appliances. How many people did they help? How much of that money did they keep for themselves? We know of the $42 billion spent to hook rural Americans up to the internet, with not one home being connected. We also know of the $7 billion spent for EV charging stations, with a whopping 7 charging stations being the final product. $16 billion for the fast train in California and not one foot of track laid."
Apr 6, 2025 ~ 'What the DOGErs Keep Finding at Social Security Explains the Progressive Spasms' Its not just that they found 2 million non-citizens given SS numbers last year, they are being paid benefits at MAX level. "1.3 million of them already on Medicaid."
Musk: "People think that Biden was asleep at the switch. They weren't asleep at the switch. It was a massive large scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and making it a deep blue one party state from which there would be no escape."
Jun 1, 2025 ~ Elon Says He Was ‘Disappointed’ By ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
“I was like — disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it. And it undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk said. "I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both."
Jul 27, 2025 ~ 'The End of Immortality in Washington'
"Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled -- no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions were accomplished. Even Ronald Reagan, who called for the cancelation of scores of programs, couldn't get Congress to end the eternal life-support system. After watching Congress fund even the most inefficient agencies, he famously groused that 'the closest thing to immortality on this earth is a government program.'"
"Last week the seemingly impossible happened. Congress terminated at least a half-dozen major programs, many of which fiscal hawks have been trying to terminate for nearly half a century."
"But Trump is ushering in a much-needed cultural shift in the way Washington operates. He is proving that Washington really CAN get rid of programs that don't work."
Jul 27, 2025 ~ 'Democrats’ all-electric USPS fleet sees each truck come with a $6.8 million price tag'
"Another Joe Biden boondoggle numbering in the billions." "A Biden administration plan to create a ‘green’ fleet of postal vehicles has churned out a mere 250 electric mail trucks in just over two years... The nearly $10 billion project — which called for more than 45,000 battery-powered US Postal Service (USPS) vehicles to be completed by September 2028 — was funded in part by $3 billion in funding from former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act."
Aug 4, 2025 ~ "It’s time to kill the left’s big lie about Trump ‘gutting Medicaid’"
"Democrats’ attack on the Medicaid part of the One Big Beautiful Bill (“OBBB”). It will, they say, cut spending so drastically that tens of millions will lose insurance and tens of thousands will die annually. The only problem is that this is a Big Lie. The editorial board at Issues & Insights has actually looked at the numbers behind the hysteria and learned something interesting: All that the OBBB really does is return Medicaid spending to the precise trajectory it was on before Biden went on a spending binge. If people weren’t dying by the tens of thousands before Biden, they’re not going to be dying in such numbers now. Likewise, tens of millions will remain insured if they were insured before."
"The only problem is that none of these claims are true. Using data from the CBO and the Kaiser Family Foundation, Issues & Insights reports, 'They are all based on one big, fat lie. There are no cuts to Medicaid.' (Emphasis in original.) They even produced a nice, clear chart showing what’s going on. It turns out that, going back at least as far as 2010, Medicaid spending was on a very steady upward trajectory. Unaffordable, yes, but still steady. However, in 2021, Biden 'massively expanded the program.' Not only did he spend more in the moment, 'but Biden set Medicaid on a permanently higher spending track.' What the OBBB does is return Medicaid spending to its original configuration before the Biden anomaly." See this graph.
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