This just in: I was a Republican until I started to follow politics. That’s when I noticed that I had been rooting for the bad guys my entire life.

It’s easy to get sucked in. Phrases like “Democrats want to make us a nation of socialists” or “Obamacare is a government takeover of healthcare” sound legit. The GOP specializes in these type of statements. They work because they sound good. They sound righteous. They sound like Republicans are saving us from something only they can see.

The truth is that the GOP is made up of con artists and has been so for decades.

Let’s take their main historic platform (I use “historic” because they have no platform today). They like to be the Party of Fiscal Responsibility. In other words they don’t waste money and they don’t overspend. If you look at the last 50 years, Republicans have contributed to about 90% of the current national debt. They do this by spending and then cutting taxes. During Trump’s reign, the national debt went up by $7.8 trillion. AND, there is nothing to show for it. No new bridges. No better healthcare. No better education. No new jobs. No surge in world peace. Nothing.

After 4 years of Trump, the bill is due. We are obligated as a country, to pay the debt.

What are the Republicans doing about this? They just voted to not pay the debt. As has been pointed out on nearly every news outlet (except Fox), this is like ordering a giant meal at a restaurant and then running out the door.

15 Nobel Prize winning economists signed a letter in favor of Biden’s huge spending bill. The Republican Party is against it. Why? Well, they have shown they are not afraid of spending but they only spend to enrich themselves or their donors. Biden’s bill is for American, not members of the Republican mafia.

I cannot think of a single time in the last 30 years where the Republican Party has made a sound economic decision.

This is a problem because Congress has 2 basic jobs: (1) make laws and (2) spend money.

As conservatives, they do their best to make time stand still of go backwards, thus, no laws. As for spending money, they are long-term failures. They would all be in jail except that they police themselves and continually find themselves innocent.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim