What else is new? They blow up the deficit and leave it for the Democrats to clean up:
Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt.
Sources close to the president say he has repeatedly shrugged it off, implying that he doesn’t have to worry about the money owed to America’s creditors—currently about $21 trillion—because he won’t be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes even more untenable.
The friction came to a head in early 2017 when senior officials offered Trump charts and graphics laying out the numbers and showing a “hockey stick” spike in the national debt in the not-too-distant future. In response, Trump noted that the data suggested the debt would reach a critical mass only after his possible second term in office.
“Yeah, but I won’t be here,” the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt.
The fact is that Trump only cares about himself. How he benefits and what he’ll be blamed for. He could care less about the “people.”
For example, Trump is expanding the war in Afghanistan. Why?
In the 16 year long war in Afghanistan, America’s longest, the amount of ordinance (missiles, rockets, bullets) that Trump used in October and November 2018, exceeded the amount of ordinance that Bush used at the height of the war in 2011.
This war is a stalemate so why is Trump ramping it up?
Could it be that he doesn’t want to be blamed for defeat and then labeled the “man who lost Afghanistan?”
The US is currently fighting in Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
Who’s next Iran?
We can no longer afford to fight these unwinnable wars.
The exploding debt and deficit is by design, to be used as the reason for dismantling Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Which are, for the most part, self-funding, but they won’t let that get in the way of killing them if they get their way.
Whether Fergus understands this is irrelevant as long as he signs their bills.
Thanks to everyone who voted last month and took control of the house away from them.