this article pasted here in its entirety explores the surface of spending money we don't have. in this piece the writer focuses mostly on rethuglican hypocrisies while focusing on democrap hypocrisies, or is it the other way round;
If Republicans lose control over the U.S House of Representatives in
the mid-term elections, they don’t have to be totally depressed. The
reason? They will then be able, once again, to campaign in the 2020
elections on the promise that if control over the House is restored to
the Republicans, they will be able to rein in the out-of-control federal
spending and debt that is threatening to take our country down.
Remember: That has been a favorite campaign ploy of the Republican
Party whenever there has been a Democrat president or whenever the
Democrats controlled one or both houses of Congress. Republicans would
tell voters, “Those big-spending Democrats are taking our country down
with their out-of-control federal spending and debt. The reason we
Republicans can’t rein in federal spending and debt is because the
Democrat big spenders are blocking us from doing so. If the voters will
just give us control of the presidency and both houses of Congress,
those Democrat big spenders will not be able to stop us from finally
reining in the out-of-control spending and debt and even abolishing a
number needless departments and agencies.”
That campaign ploy was used for ten years — starting with the 110th
Congress, which ran from January 2007 to January 2009, when the
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress in the last two years of
George W. Bush’s presidency.
After that, Barack Obama was elected president and then reelected,
with his term ending in January 2017. For the first six years of Obama’s
presidency, the Democrats controlled one or both houses of Congress,
which enabled Republicans to blame the ever-increasing, out-of-control
federal spending and debt on those Democrat big spenders.
In the 114th Congress, which ran from January 2015 to January 2017,
the Republicans were in control of both the House and the Senate. Those
were the last two years of Obama’s presidency. That enabled Republicans
to say to voters, “If you’ll just keep us in charge of both houses of
Congress and also give us the presidency, we will finally, finally, be
able to rein in the out-of-control federal spending and debt. Those
Democrat big spenders will not be able to stop us.”
In the November 2016 elections, the electorate gave the Republicans
what they asked her: the presidency and control over the U.S. House of
Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
But then you’ll never guess what happened. After 10 years of railing
against those big spending Democrats and pleading with voters to give
them control over the executive and legislative branches, it turned out
that those Republicans were themselves big spenders and big borrowers
too, just like the big spending Democrats they had railed against for a
decade. Despite their ten years of promises to rein in federal spending
and debt if the voters would give them full control of the federal
government, the Republicans have supported the same out-of-control
federal spending and borrowing scheme that the Democrats support.
In his 2019 budget proposal, President Trump is trumpeting the cuts
in spending that he is proposing for particular welfare-state and
regulatory-state agencies. But the bottom line? CNN points out that
owing to Trump’s increases in money for his beloved national-security
establishment, “The overall proposed spending is about on par with last
year, at $4.1 trillion for 2018.”
Whoop dee doo! Let’s all celebrate Trump’s switching around of the chairs on the Titanic.
Republicans need not despair if they lose control of the House.
Voters have short memories. If they lose the House, Republicans can
return to the campaign trail in 2019 arguing that if voters will just
reelect Trump and restore Republican control over both houses of
Congress, Republican big spenders will finally, finally, be able to rein
in the out-of-control spending and debt of those big-spending
Democrats.
https://www.fff.org/2018/10/22/the-benefit-to-republicans-in-losing-the-house/
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