The Democratic Party is Completely Off the Rails

The Democratic Party is Completely off the Rails
The View from the Middle

The new Democratic Party seems to be debating over two different campaign slogans. The first goes something like this, “Everything will be free or guaranteed and you will never have to take any personal responsibility for anything if you vote for us.” The other motto in contention is more to the point. It would brag that, “We can morally and financially bankrupt this country in under 10 years, vote for us.” They’ll probably go with the first tagline, but both are true.

Their plan to ruin the US economy and bring on a national “wild ride” leading to insolvency, lost jobs, plummeting individual income and a crushing national debt is already on display for all to see. Any one of their programs would be a gut-shot to the country that would lead to a lingering death for our economy and for our people. The combination of their policies would perform a mafia hit (two in the back of the head) to our values and financial stability.

Before I show you the price tags and knowable consequences of their strategies, let me remind you how big our government is today. In 2018, our government brought in a little over $3.3 TRILLION dollars in taxes from you (remember, the government has NO money). As you might guess, our government still managed to spend almost $800 billion more than they brought in, so they had to borrow that $800 billion in the name of the American people so that they could spend $4.2 TRILLION. That picture alone should frighten us all. The continued annual deficits and mounting national debt is one of my biggest disappointments with Donald Trump’s leadership. His ten-year budget does, however, balance and I’m hoping he will make good on that promise.

Now, here are the new programs being proposed by the Democratic Party. First, there is Medicare for all (except Congress I’m sure). Not only will this throw 155 million people off of their employer supplied health care plan, which they love, but it will also decimate the US Insurance Industry, eliminating the jobs of two and a half million people in the process. The working people in the insurance industry will become the new coal miners for the Democratic party. Remember how Hillary Clinton coldly stated that her energy plans would “put a lot of coal miners out of work”. Now they are saying the same thing to the insurance industry workers. And oh, by the way, the price tag for this “Medicare for all” pipedream is $32 TRILLION dollars over 10 years.

The “New Green Deal” is even worse. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is suggesting that we rip apart our entire energy industry and replace it with a 100% renewable system in just 15 years. She doesn’t explain what we are going to do with all of our gas stations around the country or the refiners, etc. Does she understand the absolute chaos it would create in our automobile industry? Oil and coal currently deliver about 90% of the energy used by this country, and renewables only have the small portion they do because they are heavily subsidized. Even Michael Bloomberg, the former Democratic Mayor of New York and potential Democratic Presidential candidate in 2020, called her plans “pie in the sky” and “disingenuous”. He may have said this because he knew they wouldn’t work, or maybe because of the price tag. Projections show that the “New Green Deal” would cost us $49 TRILLION over ten years.

When you add in AOC’s guaranteed income plan, which would cost $13 TRILLION over 10 years, these three programs alone would add $94 TRILLION in costs to our budget or about $9.4 TRILLION per year for the next ten years. This alone ( I’m not throwing in free college and preschool which she also proposes) would more than triple the size of our government. You can’t get all of this money from the “tippy-toppy” 1% of America’s wealthy. If we taxed the income of the top 1% in our country at a rate of 100% (in other words we took it ALL) This would only produce $1.2 Trillion dollars. Where is she proposing to get the other $8.2 Trillion a year. She would have to tax every dollar made by every American citizen and business at a rate of 81% just to pay for the plans she has currently proposed. And that’s just the federal income taxes. Once you add in state and local taxes, Americans would have no income at all, and would be working 100% of the time just to fund government. Maybe that’s why Michael Bloomberg calls these plans “pie in the sky” and “disingenuous”. Let me add that they are “unrealistic, naïve and even dangerous”.

These plans would financially cripple our country in almost no time, but that’s not good enough for Democrats. They must bankrupt us morally and spiritually too, and the new abortion legislation is designed to do just that. New York has already passed legislation that will allow abortions through the third trimester as long as a woman and a doctor agree, and states like New Mexico, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont are lining up to follow suit. Think of that. We’re not talking about unviable lumps of cells. We are talking about fully formed, healthy babies (human beings) can now be aborted (murdered) up to and including the time the mother is in labor, as long as a doctor and the woman agree that it might have a negative impact on the woman’s mental health. Given the challenges in raising a child today, that could technically be applied to virtually every baby born in this country.

You should watch the video of Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, whose late term abortion bill has not passed YET because it is the most extreme. The legislation would allow for an abortion even during labor on a fully formed and healthy baby, but the governor talks about aborting (killing) a baby that has actually been born. Let me quote the governor, “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother.” The governor tries to cover himself by saying that this is for babies who are not viable or have severe abnormalities. The governor, however, is misleading everyone. I have read the proposed bill and that is not a requirement. This bill allows for one doctor and one woman to decide if a perfectly healthy baby should be murdered. Given the fact that the New York legislation has already passed, if this bill in Virginia passes, we would have to revisit the conviction of the serial killing baby doctor, Kermit Gosnell. His brutal, disgusting and repulsive actions may actually be legal by these standards.

I can only hope that someone will send a calculator to the DNC so that they can figure out how unrealistic their financial plans are. Michael Bloomberg has done the math. Let’s hope a few more Democrats see his light. If, however, they can’t figure out how important it is to value and protect the lives of healthy babies within seconds of being born or even after birth, then the Democratic party is truly lost. They will be denying the first unalienable right outlined in our Declaration of Independence – the right to Life. If we abandon respect for the sanctity of life, the foundation of our great republic will crumble. “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.”