Posted on 03/10/2024 5:00:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If Javier Milei can pull Argentina out of the red, we can do it here.
A day after his pumped-up divisive State of the Union address, unsurprisingly headlined “fiery” by the copycat media lackeys, President Biden speaking in Pennsylvania reverted to his old befuddled self.
"Pennsylvania, I have a message for you: send me to Congress!"
"Last night [at] the U.S. Capitol -- the same building where our freedoms came under assault on July the 6th!"
"We added more to the national debt than any president in his term in all of history!"
Well, the last statement is true. I’ll give him that. And large budget deficits is a pattern in Democrat-run cities and states. Democrats pay off cronies and constituencies with government money and then raise your taxes because they’ve spent more than they were able to squeeze out of the economy.
Nearest to me, that pattern is evident in Maryland and Washington, D.C.: They look the other way at rising crime because they defunded the police and decriminalized conduct and then bemoan empty purses as people and businesses flee. They locked down their states and were surprised to learn that capped the revenue spigot. They made ridiculous, frivolous expenditures like bike lanes and street cars, and painting BLM on a major street and then can’t pay for necessities like cops, road repairs, and schools.
Maryland’s budget problems worsened Thursday with tax receipts failing to hit estimates for the fifth consecutive time since the pandemic ended. The news quickly ratcheted up the rhetoric among Democrats, who are divided on whether now is the time to raise taxes.
Democrats, who have controlled the State House for decades and usually deploy a united front, are ensnared in a behind-the-scenes fight over how to pay for policies...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ugh. I know. I went up there some years back and saw an old, gray, dilapidated barn with the faded white words:
“Take Back Vermont”.
I know what you mean.
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