Spending Showdown Looms On Capitol Hill

We were on a path to fiscal greatness in the 1990s, but then 9-11 happened. I will always regard it as the beginning of our economic decline. We couldn’t just go find the enemy and their allies, and kill them, then go home, no, both Democrats and Republicans wanted to go on a nation building tour. We gave hundreds of billions to Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, only to find out the Pakis were hiding Osama all along, and the Afghanis on our side were corrupt sock puppets who couldn’t stand up a real government after 15+ years of us propping them up. Then came Obama, with the laughably named Affordable Care Act, accumulating more debt than all of his predecessors COMBINED. Not to be outdone, Trump said “hold my beer” and commenced to spend more money than any president in history in a single four-year term, on account of a virus with a .003 fatality rate for anyone under the age of 70. Lastly, Biden staggers in, not to be outspent by Trump, and surpasses even him with the even more absurdly named INflation Reduction Act, whihc was really just a re-packaging of the Neo-marxist Green New Deal. Our federal government is going to go bankrupt, and its because the American people would not take this stuff seriously enough to vote out the grifting bozos in both parties. We also refused to face reality – that Social Security was implemented at a time when the life expectancy was ten years less than it is now -it was meant to keep people from being out on the streets and eating dog food, not a full-fledged retirement plan. EVERYTHING MUST BE CUT. Apathy is destroying our country