Seran
06-27-2022, 02:48 PM
To put it plainly, the current Republican party isn't the party your parents know and in fact the total abandonment of fiscal discipline, compromise and a reversion to Christian Conservatism is the GOP of the fifties and sixties.
Under President Bush, a balanced budget with surpluses were destroyed by the ill advised invasions of oil laden Iraq and the third world Afghanistan. Bush continued pursuing a crash course of tax cuts despite the ever growing military costs. This got even worse after the Great Recession caused by Wall Street malfeasance and Republican deregulation.
Under President Trump, a further regression of the party went into full swing when Trump Tax Cuts were sold as a hail mary for economic growth, but in fact resulted in never before seen deficits in the history of our nation.
President Trump signed legislation and approved executive actions costing $7.8 trillion over the decade—compared to $5.0 trillion for President Obama and $6.9 trillion for President Bush, and he enacted these costs in just a single four-year presidential term, compared to his predecessors’ eight years in the Oval Office. The largest drivers were pandemic relief legislation ($3.9 trillion), the 2017 tax cuts ($2.0 trillion), and legislation raising the discretionary spending caps ($1.6 trillion).
Trump left the White House with the largest peacetime budget deficit in American history and a national debt exceeding 100% of the economy for the first time since World War II. The failure to address unsustainable Social Security and Medicare costs leaves a projected 30-year baseline deficit of $112 trillion.
Republicans long muddied the waters with claims Democrats are the tax and spend party, while in reality their party is the "Tax Cut and Spend" party destroying our national economic security through a wave of deficit spending.
One might ask, "Could it get any worse?" the obvious answer is, it can and already has. Destroying international alliances, trade agreements, colluding with OPEC and API to dramatically cut oil supplies resulting in worldwide shortages after Putin's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent embargoes. To make matters worse, the current figure head of the GOP is actively being investigated by Congress and several state grand juries about events surrounding Trump's involvement within the January 6th Insurrection and attempts to circumvent the electoral college to remain in power.
As if this weren't enough, Republican Conservatives have rolled back a woman's right to choose, a fifty year old precedent in the basis abortions aren't an enumerated right. The figurehead of the Conservatives in the Supreme Court has announced that access to contraceptives, gay marriage, personal privacy and other core rights will be up next to destroy. Justice Clarence Thomas hasn't indicated he'd seek to overturn interracial marriages, but well he has skin in that game as much as White Conservatives have called for that to be overturned too.
Fiscal destruction, reversion to Christian fundamentalism policies, active suppression of minority rights, destruction of marriage protection for LGBT persons, all supported by the majority of Americans are all being eroded by Republican Conservatives.
This isn't your Dad's Republican party anymore, maybe you all ought to consider no longer supporting Conservative destruction.
Under President Bush, a balanced budget with surpluses were destroyed by the ill advised invasions of oil laden Iraq and the third world Afghanistan. Bush continued pursuing a crash course of tax cuts despite the ever growing military costs. This got even worse after the Great Recession caused by Wall Street malfeasance and Republican deregulation.
Under President Trump, a further regression of the party went into full swing when Trump Tax Cuts were sold as a hail mary for economic growth, but in fact resulted in never before seen deficits in the history of our nation.
President Trump signed legislation and approved executive actions costing $7.8 trillion over the decade—compared to $5.0 trillion for President Obama and $6.9 trillion for President Bush, and he enacted these costs in just a single four-year presidential term, compared to his predecessors’ eight years in the Oval Office. The largest drivers were pandemic relief legislation ($3.9 trillion), the 2017 tax cuts ($2.0 trillion), and legislation raising the discretionary spending caps ($1.6 trillion).
Trump left the White House with the largest peacetime budget deficit in American history and a national debt exceeding 100% of the economy for the first time since World War II. The failure to address unsustainable Social Security and Medicare costs leaves a projected 30-year baseline deficit of $112 trillion.
Republicans long muddied the waters with claims Democrats are the tax and spend party, while in reality their party is the "Tax Cut and Spend" party destroying our national economic security through a wave of deficit spending.
One might ask, "Could it get any worse?" the obvious answer is, it can and already has. Destroying international alliances, trade agreements, colluding with OPEC and API to dramatically cut oil supplies resulting in worldwide shortages after Putin's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent embargoes. To make matters worse, the current figure head of the GOP is actively being investigated by Congress and several state grand juries about events surrounding Trump's involvement within the January 6th Insurrection and attempts to circumvent the electoral college to remain in power.
As if this weren't enough, Republican Conservatives have rolled back a woman's right to choose, a fifty year old precedent in the basis abortions aren't an enumerated right. The figurehead of the Conservatives in the Supreme Court has announced that access to contraceptives, gay marriage, personal privacy and other core rights will be up next to destroy. Justice Clarence Thomas hasn't indicated he'd seek to overturn interracial marriages, but well he has skin in that game as much as White Conservatives have called for that to be overturned too.
Fiscal destruction, reversion to Christian fundamentalism policies, active suppression of minority rights, destruction of marriage protection for LGBT persons, all supported by the majority of Americans are all being eroded by Republican Conservatives.
This isn't your Dad's Republican party anymore, maybe you all ought to consider no longer supporting Conservative destruction.