During the recent GOP’s Midterm Convention, President Donald Trump put out an offer he hoped voters wouldn’t turn down, $5,000 to each adult American if the Republicans retained the House and the Senate.
Suddenly, the ever-thrifty Democrats objected. It’s going to reignite inflation, it’s all showmanship, it may not be legal, Oh, posh.
May I point out to the Democrat complainers that it was George McGovern during the 1972 Democrat presidential campaign who set the precedent by offering $1,000 to every American citizen. $1,000 in 1972 would be worth almost $8,000 today and it was for everybody. So when you look at it, McGovern was offering a way better deal than Trump’s.
But may I also point out that it is the Democrats who have used the public purse to bribe themselves into and keep themselves in office. It was, after all, Franklin Roosevelt who began the Welfare system in this country under his New Deal in 1935. This was just the beginning of the Democrat handout system of using enough taxpayer money to create money-sucking bureaucracies while giving the public just enough subsistence to make them keep voting Democrat.
I personally don’t see this new offer by President Trump as a wise thing to do considering we currently have a $40 trillion federal deficit which is growing by the minute. However, to damn President Trump for his election offer is so hypocritical of the Democrats especially when they’ve been doing that all along.
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