40, 41, 43, 45, and 47: Fail, Fail, Fail, Fail, and Fail

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

Do you think any of the shit happening in Washington today, would be happening if Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris was living in our White House? Fuck no.

The truth is found in the history of four Republican presidents: one of them twice, but not consecutively.

I can imagine what our nation might have become if Ronald Reagan, #40, George H.W. Bush, #41, George w. Bush, #43, and Donald Trump, #45 and #47, had not received an opportunity to destroy our nation’s economy, most likely its future..

Reagan adopted his own fiscal policy, calling it “supply-side economics.” The common term today is “trickle-down economics.” Like our Founding Fathers, Reagan was either unaware that mankind’s greatest sin is greed, or he was disguising his support for the very wealthy. The super-rich did not become “job creators,” they placed their money in offshore accounts or purchased another mansion with the tax money they were not required to pay.

Every Republican president used the same fiscal policy, and every one of them failed. Today, the national debt is 38.4 trillion dollars and growing rapidly. Trump’s second term is adding six billion dollars every day. During his first term, he added more than 8 trillion dollars to the deficit.

Meanwhile, Trump’s personal spending exceeds 10 million dollars each month.

How great would our country be, and how much better would the quality of life be for all Americans if Democrats were not forced to repair the serious mistakes made by their Republican predecessors?

Op-ed by James Turnage

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