With the election of Donald Trump, roughly half of Americans are hopeful, while the other half are dejected, if not alarmed and angry. While that may be a slight overgeneralization, we can probably all agree that the campaign leading up to the Presidential election was one of the nastiest in recent history, characterized by intense personal attacks, with little attention given to the many challenges our nation is facing. One such challenge is our exploding national debt and its dire implications for you and me.
As
someone who has been a fiscal conservative all of my adult life, I was
sorely disappointed to see such little attention given to the financial
welfare of our nation. With our nation approaching $20 trillion in
current debt, it should come as no surprise to anyone that a financial
storm, like none we have seen, is likely in our future. Yet, neither
Trump nor Clinton spoke much of our debt. When it was mentioned, it was
simply noted in passing, with no plan by either candidate to halt, much
less reverse, the current course we are on.
While
it’s understandable that neither candidate was interested in tackling
America’s festering cancer, what is alarming is the fact that many of
the organizations who have typically decry our national debit, remained
silent during the campaign. As the founder of the Chattanooga Tea
Party, our organization locally, along with the national tea party
movement, has consistently focused on fiscal issues over the last seven
years. Likewise, the Republican Party has historically been the party
of fiscal responsibility, if not in action, at least in words.
Yet
nationally, both the Tea Party and the Republican Party said
very little about the silence of both Hillary and Trump concerning our
fiscal nightmare.
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