Pros and Cons of Trump’s Budget & Cons of Dem Demagoguery

By David Limbaugh

By David Limbaugh

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Demagoguery and propaganda are enemies of good governance, but nowhere is that more apparent than in the federal budget, on which Democrats are shameless and too many Republicans are feckless.

Sages from American history presciently predicted that our republic would be in jeopardy if voters acquired the power to vote themselves money from the public trough. The U.S. Constitution did not contemplate that the federal government and federal politicians would be able to secure their elective offices through legislative transfers of wealth, but the sordid practice has been with us for decades, and we are paying the price.

Politicians can safely argue, in general terms, that we must balance the budget, but when they dare to provide specifics, they face charges of heartlessness. Well, it used to be heartlessness. Now Democrats have sunk to further depths to describe Republican efforts to cut or even just reduce the rate of spending increases as hateful, mean-spirited and simply evil.

Never mind that if we don’t quit this recklessness, someday we’ll witness a fiscal catastrophe that will devastate the very people Democrats are pretending to protect.

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