Joe started off the show with a lengthy condemnation of Speaker Mike Johnson, but he also apologized. Y’all, everyone has a right to an opinion, and I’ll have to say this made up a bit for flying to Mar-A-Slobo. He absolutely skewered him, in a good way for us, and not a good way for the Speaker. Let me show you some of the article from Raw Story, shall we?
“You know, he says, you can look at the Bible and figure out what type of speaker he is,” Scarborough said. “I just want to give the speaker the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe he just doesn’t know history and maybe he doesn’t even know current events, because if he did, he would know that actually, 20 years ago or so, Congress balanced the budget four years in a row, and over the past eight (actually four)years under the Trump administration, the first time passed the largest deficits, the biggest debt, the biggest budgets in history up to that point, Donald Trump’s administration and the Republicans in the House of Representatives, and maybe, I don’t know, maybe Mike Johnson wasn’t paying attention back then, but they increased the national debt more in four years than every other Congress and every other president had in the history of the country, cumulatively.”
Ouch! When it’s laid out like that, it gets even more frightening! More in FOUR YEARS than all the previous presidents combined, good gods! How can someone not see that? Not pay attention to *that*? And, the (ridiculous) tax cuts he’s trying to push through are included. Let’s go to the next section, shall we?
“I’m sorry to start the show this way,” Scarborough added. “I just have to, when somebody says something that is so misleading, excuse me here, so misleading, when somebody says something that misleading, you just it’s very, very important that people know that this budget that Mike Johnson is trying desperately to pass will help increase the federal debt by $20 trillion over the next 10 years. Let me just say that again, Mike Johnson is desperately working to pass a budget that will increase the national debt by $20 trillion over the next 10 years.”
WHAM. This leaves no room for doubt and no wiggle room in trying to respond to what he has said. It’s impossible to whitewash or hide, because it’s truth. Please don’t stop reading yet – there’s more!
Scarborough tried to place those figures into historical context. “Do you realize this country didn’t even accumulate that much debt over its first 220 years of existence?” he said. “Combined together from George Washington through Barack Obama? Think about this: From George Washington’s term, beginning of George Washington’s term through the end of Barack Obama’s term on Jan. 20, 2016, 2017. The United States of America did not increase the national debt by as much as Mike Johnson’s budget increases the national debt over the next decade.”
“He says he’s fiscally conservative – no, he’s not,” Scarborough added. “He’s not at all and, again, how any Republican could ever claim to be conservative and vote for a budget that adds $20 trillion to a $37 trillion debt and wrecks our economy is just beyond me.”
There you have it, laid out both on the show and in understandable black and white on a page. There are no words hidden under the elite speak in the actual bill. The tax cuts are going to shove *so* many of us down, and for those already there, this will make it worse for them.
They are trying to push these tax cuts through on the backs of Americans because they don’t care about us. This part only cares about the rich. Heaven forbid we should actually *increase* THEIR taxes! There would be so, so much screaming. Even if the people scream, we won’t be heard. That’s the saddest thing of all … Thanks for sticking with me!
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How big a number is a trillion?
Beyond our normal comprehension.
One trillion seconds is 31,710 years, or a longer time than a built human civilization on earth.
Yea, it really is. The “seconds” part really brings it home. (Glad to have you back!)
But according to MAGA Mike, economic growth will offset that.
Tell me about “trickle-down economics” without saying “trickle-down economics”.
Ha. Can’t be done 😉 (also, bullsh!t)