2023 Politics

So, this is new(s)?

1/15/23

from The Gray Area:

1/15/23:

We have had a debt problem for decades, and nobody in the political establishment much cared. Democrats would keep spending and raising debt limits every chance they could. Republicans would squawk about the debt and then spend, too. Obama laughingly said that 'with such low interest rates, we don't have to worry about debt'. Everybody thought, kick the can down the road, someday in the future, someone will have to take care of this. Well interest rates are not low anymore and are going to continue to climb. How does this ignoring of the debt stop? When one party or the other decides now is the time. Republicans just got elected in the House, where purse strings are controlled, and to there credit, they say now is the time. Coming right behind a big spending Omnibus in December, which most Republicans did not support, this is no surprise. Still, the Democrats yell that Republicans are creating a default crisis.

Enter Janet Yellen on Friday. She stated that the National Debt is a crisis, and, that we will exceed the debt limit this Thursday . Oh, who could possibly have known we would face such a catastrophe, ah, one month ago!?! Certainly not the Congress, who voted, the President who signed it, or the Republicans who caved for some pork, the Omnibus in December. Who believes this is news? It certainly isn't new. It certainly isn't a surprise. So, why is this newsworthy now? The Republican House majority has announced they will try to control spending and get control of the national debt. They have already passed a bill to dial back billions of funding for more IRS agents. This is radical to the free spending Democrats. So, the narrative needs to be re-established that the radical right, by trying to fix the problem the left created, are flirting with catastrophic economic damage. Again, enter Janet Yellen. The crisis of an out of control national debt has worried serious minded people for 30 years. Many remember the 1980s worldwide debt crisis. Ronald Reagan was called radical and dangerous when he led the strategy to fix that problem. Today the Democrats still prefer to ignore the problem. They prefer to spend. Do they care if the United States defaults on it debts? Just during Biden's first two years they have spent:

trillions on COVID, again & again...
trillions on climate change
trillions on Omnibus
trillions on infrastructure
billions on BBB (referred to a Build Back Broke)
billions on college loans and loan forgiveness
billions bailing out Dem states (calling it COVID)
billions helping Ukraine
billions on Iran nuclear
billions supposedly on inflation (that they caused, stay with me, by spending)

....and, now, the Democrats want to make you think they discovered a debt crisis. The Republican House says we will fix the debt ceiling issue this week, if the Democrats will work with them on spending. The Democrats in Congress and President Biden say, well, no. The truth is the debt crisis and the threat of default is a both party spending issue that only the Democrats want to ignore. By calling attention to it, the Democrats should be committing political suicide. But, with the media providing cover, they always have the chance to walk out of a sewer they created, smelling like a rose. More From Forbes:

We Have a Too-Much-Federal-Revenue Problem, Not a Looming ‘Debt Crisis’