Posted on 10/11/2021 8:25:42 AM PDT by RandFan
'If we’re not careful, we’re going to spend this country into oblivion,' the senator concluded.
Most of the politicians in Washington, DC are focused on a push to spend trillions of more taxpayer dollars on President Biden’s agenda. But Senator Rand Paul is raising the alarm about all the money the federal government has already spent—that it doesn’t have.
“We’re rapidly approaching a milestone in our country, and it’s not a good one: $30 trillion in debt,” Paul noted in a fiery Senate speech on Thursday. He said that the federal government is accumulating “$2 million per minute” in new debt.
Why is the fiscal situation so out of control? The senator blamed the “bait and switch” politics of big government spending and the welfare state.
“People are saying we’re going to give you free college, free cars, free cell phones, free this, free that,” Paul said. “Everything in life will be free, you won’t have to work anymore. The problem is there are ramifications. Money doesn’t grow on trees… money’s got to come from somewhere.”
“Either we borrow it… we tax people for it, or we simply print the money,” he continued. “When the Federal Reserve prints the money, as we increase the money supply, the money we already have becomes worth less and less. It loses its purchasing power. This is the insidious tax of inflation. Inflation is a regressive tax… it affects the working class, lower income people, and those on fixed incomes, much worse.”
Paul’s arguments come amid data showing that consumer prices have risen at the highest annual rates in 30 years. The senator blamed, in part, policy decisions and reckless spending at all levels of government for this harmful trend.
“Right now we’re facing 5 percent inflation, because of the massive borrowing that really both parties instituted in the last year,” he said. “They decided that the result of the pandemic would be to close everything down, destroy the economy, and give everyone free money. It’s primarily been Democrats this year… but both parties have a certain responsibility for this.”
“As government gets larger and larger, people think they’re getting free stuff,” he continued. “But it’s not really free. This is the allure of socialism… it’s a false allure… socialism doesn’t work. It is this alarming tendency to want to offer everybody everything and say it’s going to be free. Many of these things backfire.”
The senator briefly explained how the federal government wound up nearly $30 trillion in debt. For one, he cites rampant waste like the feds’ spending millions on a study into whether cocaine makes quail more sexually promiscuous.
“Studies like that are littered throughout the federal budget,” he lamented.
But bigger picture, the vast entitlement programs composing our welfare state are what’s driving us off a fiscal cliff.
“Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, other welfare, military… if you look at all that on an annual basis, before you get to the extraordinary binge of the last two years, we were already $1 trillion short every year,” Paul explained. “So last year we added a couple trillion more… and our deficit for one year was $3 trillion. We’ve never borrowed that much. There are going to be ramifications. You’re already seeing some of the ramifications; prices in the grocery store going up, prices at the pump go up, prices going up faster than wages.”
Despite all these warning signs, many of Paul’s colleagues in Congress are pushing $4.5 trillion more in spending on top of it all.
“If we’re not careful, we’re going to spend this country into oblivion,” the senator concluded.
He’s right. But it’s not too late to avert this path, if more of our elected officials wake up to our fiscal crisis and heed Rand Paul’s warning
Build Back Brandon!
The way the crap is hitting the fan right now due to Brandon’s Marxist policies, one can only hope that public opinion turns massively against these trillion dollar Dem plans.
Both parties don’t give a care about the debt really. We pay out 40 billion in interest and carry on.
Hard to believe that by Fall 2021 we would be looking back at 2020 as the “good times”
The Biden Democrats have created a perfect storm of bad domestic policy, meets bad monetary policy meets bad energy policy meets bad foreign policy
Public opinion will turn when the majority of Americans can’t buy what they want at ANY price.
Yes, in the absence of an honest media and a halfway decent GOP marketing plan that gets the message out and ties Brandon to all the crap we've endured.
People gave me crazy looks when I told them 2021 would be far worse than 2020. I stand by my statement.
It’s a lot more than $40 billion.
Last year we paid over $300 billion in interest on the national debt.
As interest rates inevitably rise and new debt is financed on those rates, things are going to get real dicey. If inflation really takes off (10-20%) rates will have to jump and we could be stuck for a trillion dollars or more in yearly interest.
We have already spent this country into oblivion.
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