Our annual deficit when Obama took office was $150 billion. We were at the peak of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars then, big time expenditures. They wound quickly down right after Obama was elected.
Since then Obama has run up a $4 trillion debt.
All we need to do is roll our government spending back to 2007 levels, and we’ll be back in the black. It’s unconscionable that liberals continue to insist on $1 trillion deficits well beyond 2020.
The one thing liberals have going for them is that people have a hard time grasping the idea of $1 trillion. The whole fiasco of the “$1 trillion coin” was a brilliant liberal ploy – it made the idea of $1,000,000,000,000 even more abstract and absurd. Modern abstract art. Nonsense!
The American Civil Engineering Society publishes an annual survey of our nation’s infrastructure. This includes our roads, bridges, fresh water systems, sewer systems, railroads and electrical power distribution system. All of these categories routinely get a grade of D or worse.
Nobody knows what Obama spent that $4 trillion on.
What he COULD have spent it on was 100% infrastructure. Every bridge, every interstate highway, every electrical power line, every railroad tie, and every water and wastewater system could have been replaced. Our entire infrastructure could be bran spanking new right now.
We could have the upgrade to our electrical grid that would make it possible to start using solar and wind power effectively. We could have real nice roads and much lower gasoline taxes.
We wouldn’t have to buy SUVs and trucks to navigate our highways, they’re all so torn up and bumpy.
Industries would move back to America to take advantage of this spectacular new infrastructure, and all it does to facilitate commerce, travel and communication.
Instead, factories keep moving to China. China DOES have a 100% new infrastructure. We paid for it! China has all the most up to date communications and transportation facilities. We don’t.
This fiscal impasse in Washington practically guarantees four more years of $1 trillion deficits.
Do we want a brand new national infrastructure for all that cash money?
Or do we want – well, nothing?
