DID WE EVEN HAVE A PAST BEFORE TRUMP?
By Gary Kaltbaum October 25, 2017
This is not a defense of President Donald Trump. Lord knows I have many issues with the “presidentialness” of the current president but I ask, was there any past before President Trump? Does Flake, Corker, the media, the Dems and the rest who have buried their head in the sand remember there was a past before President Trump?
So let’s use the USA Today quotes they put on their front page this morning. These are quotes from Jeff Flake.
“Mr. President, I rise to say: Enough!”
“I have children and grandchildren to answer to, and so, Mr. President, I will not be complicit!”
“We must never regard as “normal” the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals!”
Enough? Children and grandchildren? Undermining of our democratic norms and ideals? Senator Flake, I have news for you. You should have been asking these same questions much more loudly in the past 16 years you have been in the house and the senate.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
Our debt, the taxpayer debt has gone from about $5 trillion to $20 trillion, more than $5 trillion under Bush and almost $10 trillion under Obama, who easily gets the championship belt.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
North Korea developed Nukes. Yes, that North Korea.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
Welfare numbers have skyrocketed. Poverty continues at high rates.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
Illegal immigration has skyrocketed. Excuse me…undocumented immigrants.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
We are now to the point where the first $450 billion of tax dollars each year goes to pay interest on all the accumulated debt.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
Another President, in plain sight, lied to the American public about a gargantuan healthcare bill.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
Another President kissed the rear end of the Castros and gave away the store to Iran.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
Federal spending has gone from less than $2 trillion/year to over $4 trillion/year…and slated to go much higher.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
Another President had no clue as to how to handle a war in Iraq and not until years later realized DUH!, we may need more people to fight the good fight.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
We have gone through boom and bust cycles and got to the point where central banks around the globe (starting with ours) had to print money and rig the whole freaking bond market in order to get markets up and economies moving.
Because in the past 16 years you have been a politician:
The Knicks and Mets still suck (Levity)
I have no doubt Jeff Flake means well. I have no doubt many of the things he says about the new President are true. But to say you now worry about your children and grandchildren when all this crap has been going down BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP became president, tells me we either have some some sour grapes going on or heads just want to get buried in the sand. Keep in mind, I could have made this list much longer but think the point has been made. All this occurred before President Trump but only now we all must worry.
And to repeat, we are 100% against this President’s lack of “presidentialness!” There is a laundry list of things we disagree with him on. We are not sycophants like many others. We just want good policy and good government. Unfortunately, in many minds, the past 16 years did not happen…all to suit one’s purpose.