Arthur Keller

Beavertown

The Democrats are for big government, wasteful spending, and lots of entitlements — the bigger the better. Let’s look at the 4-year Biden-Harris spending binge to grow the federal government.

Employment in their government grew by 709,000 in 2023, 299,000 in 2022 and 392,000 in 2021 or by nearly 1.5 million people. They increased the federal deficit by $2.5 trillion more than what the Congressional Budget Office projected for 2021-2024, their policies led to the highest inflation rate in 4 decades (up 20% since Jan. 2021) and reduced worker’s purchase power by $2,230. They raised government spending by 22% more than what it would have been under prior law, and government spending was on an unsustainable trajectory that threatened the value of the dollar and could result in the collapse of our nation. Their claim of deficit reduction is simply not true. Even The Washington Post gave this claim a “Bottomless Pinocchio” rating. They increased federal spending by $4.7 trillion, taxes by $2.2 trillion, deficit by $2.5 trillion and debt through fiscal year 2024 was estimated $3.9 trillion higher than projected as they expanded the federal government.

They unilaterally increased Food Stamp benefit payments, weakened Medicaid eligibility rules, bailed out banks and union pension programs, expanded Obamacare subsidies and COVID stimulus payments, canceled student loan debt by paying it off with our taxpayer funds and expanded child tax credits to mention a few. They want everyone beholden to the government. Actual layouts for the Dept. of Education from 2021-2024 were greater than $1.1 trillion, which was $698 billion above the pre-Biden-Harris projection with no significant increase in our ranking.

There are 195 countries in the world. Guess how many we gave foreign aid to in 2023 –180 to the tune of nearly $70B of our taxpayer dollars. Might as well say the whole world! We gave $12M to China, $208M to Venezuela, $886M to Afghanistan, $9M to Cuba, $763M to Syria, $733M to Yemen and $294M to Palestinian territories, the West bank and Gaza. Our country is in debt, yet we fund the world and our enemies with our tax dollars while flooding our country with illegal immigrants who also receive free housing, food and health care also paid for with our tax dollars. And what did FEMA offer our flood victims? Little in comparison.

The Biden-Harris administration expanded the federal government, supported the world and flooded our country with illegal immigrants with open borders at the expense of the American taxpayers’ wellbeing and the financial / physical security of our country. Just going back to the pre-Biden-Harris administration will save us trillions of dollars. We cannot allow them to implement the new world order, giving our wealth away, reducing us to a third world nation with everyone on government sponsored programs destroying our wealth, our nation, our freedom. Never again! We must shrink our government and its wasteful spending.