For eight years, Americans were subjected to incessant worked-up anxiety and anger over the national debt.
Not coincidentally, this handwringing and bloviating began and ended when Barack Obama began then completed two terms as president.
Now, the Republican party fast-tracked and passed their tax give-away to primarily the richest Americans.
Multiple sources attest this handout will add about $1.5 trillion to the national debt.
Passed on to Obama in 2009 was the worst American economy in nearly a century — the result of eight years of Bush, Cheney and Republican gross mismanagement.
The Congressional Budget Office and others report the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions have thus far cost at least $2.4 trillion, according to Wikipedia, all on the national credit card — the debt.
This, too, was handed off to President Obama, along with the never-ending and tragic continuing costs from that debacle: lifetime health care for some 33,000 grievously wounded returned young veterans and continuing military involvement and support in both countries.
Some 14 years later, it amounts to hundreds of millions to billions every year, according to government sources.
How many improved roads, highways and schools would that four or more trillion dollars have bought us here in the USA?
Instead, it was thrown at a gigantic trumped-up Republican fiasco in the Middle East.
Then the entire mess was handed off to Obama to try and resolve, and incomprehensibly bear blame for the Bush-Cheney-Republican nightmare there.
The Republicans, now unconcerned about the national debt, just gave huge tax handouts to every American who didn’t need any help, multimillionaires, billionaires and the most profitable corporations of all.
How will we get overdue maintenance, repairs and upgrades to our nations’ schools, roads, rails and bridges now — and who will pay?
The answer is blowing in the wind.
That answer, is you and me my friend.
Tom LaRue,
Carlsborg