Posted on 11/22/2021 2:18:27 AM PST by blueplum
n 2010, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen called the national debt "the greatest national security threat facing our nation." At the time, the national debt was around $13 trillion. Eleven years later, the national debt exceeds $29 trillion—that's bigger than the gross domestic product of the United States! Yet almost no one in Washington is at all serious about cutting spending.
The Democratic Party is so devoted to massive spending increases that those Democrats who "only" want to spend $1.75 trillion on the so-called Build Back Better Plan are considered "fiscal conservatives." Republicans may vote against big-spending bills when out of power, but as soon as one of their own sits in the Oval Office, they abandon fiscal conservatism....
....The NDAA is only going to get worse when the full Senate debates and votes on amendments. Many amendments to this "defense" bill have as little to do with defending the American people as the Iraq War did.
One amendment would force all military departments and agencies to transition to "clean energy." Forcing taxpayers to waste money on a militarized Green New Deal is not justified by science, the true security needs of the people or fiscal prudence.
Other amendments will direct Congress to put land into trust for Indian tribes, one of which will create a casino. Whatever one's position on expanding tribally controlled casinos, this action raises important questions of federalism and tribal governance that deserve more attention than the 10 minutes of debate ...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
It’s too late to get it under control. Once you give someone a freebee there is no way to take it back. that includes guberment entities.
Too many players involved in our fleecing
Is the date of publication correct? This article may be from the 1930s.
Sorry Ron, the exact opposite is about to happen. The passing of the “reconciliation” bill will ensure the explosion of the welfare state into a multi-headed hydra that can’t be killed but will kill the USA via bankruptcy.
it will get under control only when Fed.gov goes bankrupt and collapses, like the Soviet Union.
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