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America’s Last Chance
American Thinker ^ | 1 Mar, 2025 | Fletch Daniels

Posted on 03/01/2025 5:43:12 AM PST by MtnClimber

One of my coworkers asked me if I would still have voted for President Trump if I had thought it could cost my job. My answer surprised her.

What a difference a few months make. This time last year, we were hurtling toward societal collapse. The government's growth rate and requisite spending had hit such obscene levels that the question of whether we, like Wile E. Coyote, had raced over the edge of a cliff was no longer theoretical.

Four years of Kamala Harris as president without an injection of some corrective mechanism first would have imploded America like the Death Star. Frankly, the path the Biden puppet masters put us on was so cataclysmically destructive that recovery is still no sure thing.

The math remains ugly. The key statistic is that around 40% of every tax dollar taken goes toward paying interest on the national debt. That number would have been mere child’s play to a Democrat administration. Forty percent? We can do better than that. Push the throttle to Ludicrous Speed. We’re going where nobody has gone before. Nothing short of 100 percent is acceptable.

It always comes down to the math, and math doesn’t lie. It’s brutally honest for anyone wise enough to pay attention.

This is the defining national security issue of our time. Building a strong military doesn’t matter when your biggest rival, China, will never have to face it. All the Chinese need to do is wait until we collapse from within. This is why the work of President Trump and DOGE is essential. This is our last chance. Elon Musk gets that. At President Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, he pointed out what should be painfully obvious to everyone: we cannot sustain $2-trillion deficits. That’s a mathematical certainty even a first-grader

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

1 posted on 03/01/2025 5:43:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It is going to take many years to recover from all the careless spending.


2 posted on 03/01/2025 5:43:26 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

It wouldn’t have bothered me at all. I know five actual work meausres I have done this week.


3 posted on 03/01/2025 5:45:57 AM PST by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: MtnClimber

not AS long with some serious clawback and a justice system with ALL BALLS, NO BLONDES. sorry. Florida native and resident but Bondi dropped the ball on Epstein...LONG, LONG ago. no CONfidence here.


4 posted on 03/01/2025 5:49:07 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: MtnClimber

If the far left turd rollers really wanted to win in 2024, they should have found some more qualified losers. Geez. Kowala Harris and Tiny Timmy Tampon were terrible. They thought they were a shoe in.


5 posted on 03/01/2025 5:59:25 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Schmucky Schumer says that Government "hard workers" are working anonymously.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, the spending got totally out of whack!
We cannot just tinker around the corners.
This country needs radical restructuring, if we do not want to end like Argentina!
BRW. Javier Milei seems to got handle of that country in a year. Radical restructuring!
Musk is trying to do the same here.
I hope, he succeeds.


6 posted on 03/01/2025 6:11:40 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: MtnClimber

I’ll stick with optimism for now, however cautionary.


7 posted on 03/01/2025 6:17:34 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: AZJeep

In the beginning, Milei was highly criticized in Media and massive protests were common there.
It seems that now people of Argentina are enjoying it.


8 posted on 03/01/2025 6:17:39 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: MtnClimber
The key statistic is that around 40% of every tax dollar taken goes toward paying interest on the national debt.

Imagine that in a personal context. Imagine 40% of your take-home pay goes just to pay the interest on all your debt. That's pretty close to being bankrupt.

9 posted on 03/01/2025 8:08:25 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Kamala was Biden’s revenge on the DNC. He knew she’d lose. He didn’t care.


10 posted on 03/01/2025 8:16:22 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: MtnClimber

Here’s a question that no one can answer: If the Federal Reserve just invented the money they loaned the federal government without selling treasury bonds, do we really owe the money?


11 posted on 03/01/2025 8:50:05 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (It is long past time to dump the entire Treasury drawer and throw away the crap.)
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To: MtnClimber

The plan was to collapse the economy with a default on the massive debt. It was never to pay it down. And the Republicans were in on the scam.


12 posted on 03/01/2025 8:58:41 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (It is long past time to dump the entire Treasury drawer and throw away the crap.)
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