Posted on 09/23/2019 8:56:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Reagan didn’t want him as VP and the choice boiled down to Gerald Ford or Bush”
Yes, Reagan could have anyone he wanted...of course, as long as they were involved in the JFK assassination, or the window dressing Warren commission.
I stopped worrying about the debt when I realized it wasn’t going to be our country much longer.
Trump is trying mightily, but not much progress has been made on reversing the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
uhh….NO, it wasn't. If it had been we likely would not be in the mess we're in today.
POTUS #41 GHWB upon assuming office immediately went about purging, with extreme prejudice, the Executive Branch of RWR holdovers. 6
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
My point is, the auto-pilot massive Fed.gov is fed by huge spending, and large debt. by saying “our debt is not that large” it simply confirms my point - the massive DC, leftist nanny state will continue to roll on! Please don’t complain then when we get more government and more leftist social engineering.
Regarding some of your other points:
**GDP will always rise with injections of money. It merely raises the overall price level. We are not Zimbabwe, but for comparison - what is Zimbabwe’s GDP in its local currency? Its probably a huge, and rapidly-growing, figure
**America’s “hard assets” - what does that mean? Does that mean YOUR and MY assets the gov’t can confiscate as needed
** Note that at present levels, the amount of debt-service of Fed.gov pays from budge will double from 2017 to 2026. That’s $400 billion more each year. And that’s at 2% interest rates. What if interest rates double to a still historically low 4%?
That's my point - its a global phenomenon.
but as long as I can remember, the govt has "reformed" or "fixed" SS by making younger people pay more and work longer....now that I am finally collecting at nearly 66 yrs I guess I'll start getting some back....but the younger workers are burdened already....
Nobody is going to fix the deficit, nobody is going to fix Social Security, and nobody is going to curb inflation. It’s all going to keep going on like this until the whole thing crashes. The best we can hope for is that the crash is something our country can still recover from and that we learn our lesson this time and don’t repeat the same mistakes again.
Bush was forced onto the ticket IMO....very very peculiar how it happened....
I’d add a third national crisis, Our Public education system and our college systems are broken.
Regan was more focused on taking out the Soviets than Islam at the time.
“Solvency is not about paying debt off but making interest payments...”
That’s the way a debt slave thinks: “Oh, I’ll be alright as long as I can make the minimum payment on the credit cards next month!”
If we keep thinking like that, our nation will always remain in debt, and the debt will always keep growing.
On the contrary, we have not left the 60s behind, drug abuse, broken families, race relations, pornography, democrat hatred of America, all started in the 60s and continue full speed today.
"Two Ticking Time Bombs that are Buried Seven Paragraphs into this Article"
We need to start working to abolish as many departments, bureaus, and agencies as we can.
Even necessary ones. We can always replace them with a new agency stuffed with our people. JFK did it, replacing the Republican-leaning Bureau of the Budget with a new Office of management and Budget, which got filled with Democrat-leaning bureaucrats.
The Federal Reserve should be abolished.
Repeal Amendments XVI and XVII, and adopt new amendments to limit government and move toward liberty.
I believe President Reagan said that Simpson-Mazzoli was his biggest mistake.
We should repeal it.
He should hve picked Kemp or Crane or someone like them.
Laxalt would have been a great choice. The only drawback I could see was that he was from a neighboring state, but then that worked out for Clinton and Gore.
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