As the national media help President Biden whip Americans into a frenzy with claims of “defaulting on our debt” that can result only from a self-fulfilling prophecy, House Republicans are presented with a choice. Will we cave to the president, Wall Street, massive corporations, swamp lobbyists, and the corporate media to continue America’s borrow-and-spend death spiral? Or will we instead take this opportunity to stand up for the American people to demand their “leaders” stop irresponsibly spending money we do not have?
In his 1801 inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson identified certain “blessings” that he found “necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people.” Among them was “a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”
The elected officials that have plunged the nation into nearly $32 trillion in debt to fund destructive, woke federal programs and endless wars — fueling record inflation in the process — exemplify the antithesis of wisdom and frugality. Federal agencies originally established to “restrain men from injuring one another” are instead weaponized against the American people. Unelected bureaucrats now regulate every aspect of “industry and improvement” to the detriment of freedom and prosperity. And we fund every last bit of it with taxpayer dollars and more government debt — the proverbial “bread” labor has earned.
Our choice, then, is clear.
While Biden and congressional Democrats fiddle,
