Keeping His Promises, Yeah!

"It can be done. ... It will take place and it will go relatively quickly.  ... If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing ... you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country."- Donald Trump


In 2016, the last year of the Obama administration, the Federal budget deficit was $585 billion, having declined 59% during Obama's time in office, from the mess left by the previous Republican administration. Until recently, the predicted budget deficit for 2020 was over a billion dollars.

Oops...then along comes the Coronavirus. Trump's planned spending on that, or at least his attempted corporate giveaway, because that is the Republican answer to any crisis, will raise the budget deficit to over three trillion dollars.

Yeah, he and his fellow Republicans will whine that this was caused by an unexpected event.  But can you imagine them accepting that explanation from a Democrat?  Screw Republicans, this colossal explosion of the Federal deficit should be tied around Trump's neck like a noose, and jerked as tight as humanly possible.  And yet, I have not seen one source, on the left or in the mainstream press, pointing this out.

Dirty politics to use this issue?  Come on, compared to the way Republicans blame everything on earth on Democrats, this is like a five year old cheating at go fish.  Let's at least point out the consequences that resulted, in significant part, from Trump's dismantling much of our epidemic provention infrastructure, and then ignoring the problem for months, as it got ready to explode.  This was never about anything except getting Trump re-elected, and it is still about nothing else, with his threat to lift stay-at-home orders to push the stock market back up, potentially killing hundreds of thousands to try to fend off for four more years the time when we throw him in prison.  At least let him campaign with that three trillion dollar budget deficit in plain view.


Comments

Jean Valjean said…
It dawned on me that Trump is fighting for his life -- if he is not re-elected, his handlers will off him in an instant.
March 24, 2020 at 3:14 PM
Green Eagle said…
Or just leak the information they have had all alone, and put him in prison for the rest of his life.
March 25, 2020 at 11:19 AM
Jean Valjean said…
Too risky. He's insane. No self-control.
March 25, 2020 at 2:34 PM
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