TheWiseOldFart

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   Hidden from the American people was a meeting held in the Oval Office about a month before the 2016 election. In attendance were President Obama, Vice-President Biden, the leaders of both parties from the House and Senate, and the heads of the FBI, NSA, and other agencies dedicated to investigations related to election security and attempts by foreign nations to alter the results of our elections. Evidence was offered by these agencies that Vladimir Putin was deeply involved in efforts to control the outcome of the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. The very fact that this meeting was held remained hidden from the American people until the results of the election were confirmed. Trump secured a very slim victory in the Electoral College, but lost the popular vote by more than three million ballots. What remains hidden is how the principals involved in this meeting decided to hide the facts from the electorate. There is no doubt that if ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, our nation no longer had a deficit. He eliminated the national debt and left his successor with a surplus for the first time in many years. However, George W. Bush placed our nation in two costly and unwinnable wars. His fiscal policy, originated by Ronald Reagan in 1981, known as “trickledown economics,” failed miserably. These factors led to the Great Recession and the destruction of the housing market. However, the super-rich continued to receive huge tax breaks. Their numbers grew under the failure of another right-wing president. Trump reduced taxes once again on corporations and the wealthy. When he failed to lead our nation in the fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus in 2020, another recession neared and our economy crashed once again. He left the economy in shambles for President Biden to repair. He, too, chose a policy of trickledown economics. The lesson I give you is simple and proven by historical fact. ...