Right on cue, as soon as President Joe Biden is elected, Republicans are expressing hysteria about the national debt. But fun fact: This is a brand new worry for the GOP. They weren’t worried about it when the previous president gave billions of dollars of tax breaks to rich people and their businesses.
They didn’t blink an eye when he threw taxpayer money at his vanity project, the border wall (wasn’t Mexico supposed to pay for that?). It’s almost as if they didn’t know the national debt grew by more than $7 trillion dollars during the previous administration and that the rise of the deficit under Donald Trump is the third largest in U.S. history.
During the past four years, the only people talking about debt were the Democrats, but now that the GOP candidate is (thankfully) exiled to Florida and, after only two months of a new Democratic administration, the so-called conservatives are wringing their hands and clutching their pearls. Sad!
The Eagle – March 21, 2021
ROSE RIZZO
Bryan