If a presidential administration intentionally set out to harm the United States, what would it have done differently than the current occupant 0f 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
The White House has adopted an economic philosophy that is spending the nation and its citizens into bankruptcy, an immigration program that has devastated whole portions of states including major cities, and a foreign policy that ignores threats. Almost daily, it disdains approximately half the citizenry with pejorative phrases. Racial discord is apparently encouraged. Overwhelming crime is largely ignored, with support given to irrational bail policies. The maladministration of a once proud educational system is encouraged. Biden pushes an energy policy that has destroyed American energy independence and caused deeply painful and utterly unnecessary inflation.
Consider each of these issues singularly.
Federal bankruptcy: Fitch as downgraded America’s credit rating as a result of Biden’s policies. The nonpartisan Citizens Against Government Waste noted that President Biden’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget “[was] a disaster for America’s fiscal and physical security. The plan exemplifies everything that is wrong with Washington by doubling down on the idea that every problem can be solved with more spending. Under the president’s proposal, the budget deficit will increase from $1.15 trillion in FY 2023 to $1.78 trillion in FY 2032, and cumulatively total $14.4 trillion over that period. The national debt held by the public will reach $39.5 trillion in FY 2032.”
As noted by House GOP members in the months after Biden took office, “Biden supported the highest sustained tax burden in American history, proposing $55 trillion of taxes. He asked for A 16% INCREASE for federal agencies, but a 0% increase in Homeland Security funding for ’22 even though border crossings are at a 20 year high $1+ trillion deficits every year, resulting in $17 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years.
Immigration: Both the humanitarian and economic results of the White House’s refusal to secure the border or enforce immigration law are crushing. The Federation for American Immigration Reform reports that: At the start of 2023, the net cost of illegal immigration for the United States – at the federal, state, and local levels – was at least $150.7 billion. In 2017, the estimated net cost of illegal migration was approximately $116 billion. In just 5 years, the cost to Americans has increased by nearly $35 billion. Illegal immigration costs each American taxpayer $1,156 per year ($957 after factoring in taxes paid by illegal aliens). Each illegal alien or U.S.-born child of illegal aliens costs the U.S. $8,776 annually.
That’s just the dollars. There is an incalculable cost of human trafficking of women and children resulting from the open border, the massive increase in fentanyl use, and the infiltration of criminal cartels and terrorists must also be considered. Even Democrat mayors have begged the White House for relief.
Economy: For the American consumer, gas and food prices remain very high, largely as a result of Biden energy policies. Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) writing in The Hill notes: “Small businesses, families and seniors are suffering from self-imposed, self-inflicted, and anti-energy policies of the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress.”
Crime: As noted in a myjournalcourier commentary, “The crime rate has increased in almost every major city in the United States, with violent crime leading the statistics. From a law enforcement perspective, it is clear that a large percentage of violent crime is driven by the unwillingness of district attorneys and judges to hold people accountable.” The soft-on-crime policies supported by the progressive cadre in the White House and implemented in “blue” cities and states have turned America’s major metropolises into nightmare abysses of lawlessness.
Education: The Biden Administration has unleashed its Justice department on parents protesting the abuse of educational dollars for leftwing propaganda and bizarre practices, including sexually explicit programs aimed at the youngest students. A New York Post study found that “ Americans’ confidence in the US public school system has fallen…Overall, 28% of Americans say they have a “great deal/quite a lot” of confidence in the country’s school systems…Trust has been on a downward slide…”
Foreign Affairs: In August, a joint Chinese/Russian naval fleet threatened the coastline of Alaska. A Chinese spy balloon traversed America unmolested until it completed its mission. Beijing continues to purchase vast amounts of American farmland, particularly in areas near military installations. China’s already massive armed forces continue to outpace their American counterpart. Beijing’s navy is larger than that of the U.S. Russia’s nuclear force is larger than America’s. North Korea’s ICBM arsenal is developing rapidly. The Biden Administration, following in the footsteps of the Obama presidency, continues to pursue appeasement rather than substantive measures to deter the nation that pledges “death to America.” Biden has ended policies designed to attack Beijing’s espionage within the U.S. Additionally, despite all of these dangerous conditions, the Biden Administration defense budget requests have been so inadequate that even members of his own party have been forced to vote for increases.
Each of these crises individually would have been sufficient to bring down a presidency. But the hyper-partisan media has glossed over each of them.
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