Posted on 03/06/2023 11:34:07 AM PST by thegagline
There is no conservative movement or conservative leaders out there. Just another flavor of Republican. There is no going back. America got sold out decades ago, now grift armies fight over scraps.
There is a simple answer for trump:
The trump tax cuts.
Those tax cuts now generate 5 trillion dollars a year in revenue. It was about 3.5 trillion in revenue when he took over.
That’s a huge boost in providing the ammunition to lower debt and deficit.
It absolutely is 125% congress’ fault. Pretending otherwise is anti constitutional.
Where does spending originate. Republican tax cuts have shaved trillions off a debt that truly would be much higher without them.
Nobody Likes Mike
Voters really don’t want less government spending. It is what it is.
You sound like a proud Bush,McCain Romney voter..
You can write their names in on your 2024 ballot.
So says GulliverSwift, spokeshole for everyone.
Worth repeating.
It is sad to believe that a guy with such credentials could be sipping the kool aid.
Trump did. Trump also liked Steve Mnuchin,Barr, Pence, Mulvaney, Mattis, Sims, Bolton, Wray, Milley, Fauci, Scaramucci, Kelly, Cohn, Griffin, McMaster, Cohen, Tillerson etc.
Trump also liked the COVID “vaccines”
From Mr Operation Warp Speed: "The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind," Trump told conservative commentator Candace Owens
"I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines all are very, very good," he said in the interview, referring to the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots. Donald “Operation Warp Speed” Trump
Hey fella', you ever been conned by reputable or even trusted experts who had you close to outnumbered?
Trump signed the single largest spending bill in world history with the first Covid Relief Bill.
He did it because it was 2020 and the election was coming up.
He did not push back.
That Covid Relief Bill is part of the rise in inflation. Biden and the Dems made it worse, but Trump bears partial responsibility for it.
You are absolutely correct.
Each voter wants his rep to bring home the bacon more than the next swamp creature. It is an impossible position at the same time not wanting to raise taxes.
The government cannot spend more and not raise taxes except if they create inflation which causes taxes to rise without voting for it. This is what is happening now.
agreed. If the country was just opened up we wouldn’t have needed but a tiny tiny fraction of the COVID money. It was all such a colossal waste of taxpayer money rife with fraud.
2020 on your pic..
That’s when all those State Tyrants and Fedzilla and Health Tyrants said they didn’t have enough ___________, and people would die without it...
Ah, Good times.
For the Pfascists and the Swamp
There is no honor among any of these political apparatchiks. They are disgusting. I hope Trump can find better in the future.
Mike, which departments are you going to cut and which entitlements are you getting rod of? Please run on that. No doubt this fool voted for every debt increase. Trump shut the government down and had no support among Repukes
Only business experience teaches “the law of unforeseen consequences”, which is based on the axiom that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Political and academic experience do not teach these lessons - only business failures and successes can discipline men to be truly pragmatic.
For example, when academics and politicians confront the issue of carbon emissions, they do so idealistically, and simplistically. They conclude that as a world leader, the US must lead in reducing emissions. It seems like a no-brainer to them and any dissent is dismissed as ignorance or malice.
A businessman, on the other hand, has no agenda other than the best possible outcome, and therefore measures real-life consequences. He sees that reducing US emissions raises the price of US energy, driving the markets to purchase lower cost (and dirtier) energy from abroad.
So, a well-intended policy of lowering US carbon emissions totally backfires, resulting in higher world carbon emissions, and the loss of US jobs, and weakening of national security to boot.
Only a businessman can foresee such consequences, because they needed that skill in order to survive in their industry.
The same potential for idealistic and noble sounding policies to backfire exists throughout the government - in foreign policy, in trade agreements, in tax policy, in monetary policy, in social justice, in healthcare - we need more businessmen running this country - and fewer professors, lawyers and grifters.
But they have to always keep creating more and more dollars to pay off old debts, including interest. As is often pointed out, more money is owed than is created by a loan.
And you know you voted for all three of them.
I read the transcript of Pompeo’s speech to a group about 6 months ago. Totally globalist NWO.
You are absolutely right on all points.
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