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Jeff
Berwick wrote this article, I do not have as jaded an opinion about Trump
as Jeff does but as I said before except for Rand Paul and a few freedom
loving Republicans, the Republican and Democratic Parties are anchors
around Trump’s neck and I fear that eventually they will drag Trump
down.)
Many
people fell for Donald Trump's pre-election promises, but we warned there
would be no major changes made and that Trump was an elite insider.
How right we were.
Here was a list of his biggest promises and how he has already
backtracked on all of them:
Putting Hillary Clinton in jail.
This
was a big one for a lot of people as Killary is a massive criminal. But,
within seconds of being elected, Trump reminded people of their decades
long friendship and said that he would not be going after Hillary because
the Clintons "are good people".
Rescinding Obamacare
So much for that, Trump made a few minor tweaks and it essentially
remains the same.
Building a wall across a continent and making Mexico pay for it.
Forgetting
for the moment that this wall would be a testament to stupidity and it,
and Trump's other protectionist measures, would destroy the US economy
and US dollar… and that the wall is probably to keep Americans in at some
point and that immigration
from Mexico to the US is at a 40 year low. Forgetting all that,
Trump actually plans to tax Americans twice for it. Once in the form of
billions of dollars in expenditures to build the wall over decades and
another in the form of charging Americans 20% more to buy Mexican
products (which is mostly in the form of food and petroleum).
And, many people assumed that when Trump said he was going to drain the
swamp, reduce the size of certain government departments and reduce
regulation, that he was going to reduce the size of government as a
whole.
Nope, not at all. Trump has just come out with his budget and it puts the
US government into just as much debt as Obama did.
This is from Trump's budget:
"The core of my first Budget Blueprint is the rebuilding of our Nation's
military without
adding to our Federal deficit. There is a $54 billion increase in
defense spending in 2018 that is offset by targeted reductions elsewhere.
This defense funding is vital to rebuilding and preparing our Armed
Forces for the future."
Notice he says it
won't increase the size of the "deficit". This is not the same
as the debt. What it means is that he will still put the federal
government into hundreds of billions of dollars per year more debt… but
he won't increase the amount he is putting it in debt over what Obama
did.
He is closing some museums and firing some totally useless people at
departments like the EPA (which should be closed entirely along with
every other department of the federal government) but is increasing
expenditures on the US Empire's terrorist network, the Pentagram, also
known as the Department of Offense, by tens of billions of dollars.
This is a military, by the way, that spends more than every other
country's military in the world combined! That's the same Pentagram by
the way, that said it lost over $6 trillion since 9-11 2001 and doesn't
know where it went or where it is.
And so, now, under Donald "big government" Trump, the US
government has yet again hit their debt target.
They call it a ceiling, but if you hit something nearly every year since
the "debt ceiling" was created in 1917 you might as well call
it a target. Because it certainly isn't a ceiling!
The current US federal government debt is $19,865,505,000,000. That is
$8,550,505,000,000 more than it was when O'Bomber took his seat in the
Oval Orifice in 2008. (Watchman comment: Jeff is not counting our
total debt most which lies outside the stated national debt.)
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