Recent Contributions to our National Debt
From Investopia, on the last two presidential administrations’ contributions to the national debt:
Donald Trump; $6,700,491,178,561.60 (~ $6.7 trillion)
Joe Biden; $4,738,415,474,674.48 (~ $4.7 trillion)
Outside of the $2 trillion difference, a major consideration is that Trump gave trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest individuals and corporations, while Biden invested in our country’s infrastructure, most of which is focused on things that the common American finds valuable, e.g., healthcare, education, and the decarbonization of our energy and transportation sectors.
It’s fashionable nowadays to suggest that our schools add stuff to their curricula. Normally, these items are intended to make our young people more independent of a system that is rapidly deteriorating, and include things like growing one’s own food.
The United States has no official language, and its citizenship test may be taken in any of dozens of languages.
Though Trump seems to have control of the Republican party, and thus the U.S. government, there are members of the GOP, e.g., Liz Cheney, who aren’t willing to concede on matters of truth and rule of law.
Pastor Brandon’s argument is one we’ve seen before. Maybe liberalism is simply a collection of better ideas than conservatism, and that’s the reason we find them in places of higher education.
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Apparently, there are people who don’t understand that the United States produces more crude oil than any country on Earth, at any time in world history.
China and Chinese interests own about 1% of all foreign-owned farmland.
It’s impossible to know who or what is behind the constant flow of disinformation on electric transportation, e.g., the graphic at left. Big Oil? QAnon? Other right-wing, anti-environmentalist groups?
Apparently, some people have an appetite for being ordered around by the most ignorant and hateful people in America.
