E-Newsletter No. 135             March 2025     

Contrary to last month’s newsletter, we decided to postpone for one month the discussion about the Second Amendment and our citizens’ right to bear arms.  Instead, we need to talk some more about the concept of a Free Press and some of the realities about the mainstream media.    

As we noted last month, it is difficult to have freedom of speech, when conservative content is censored or suppressed.  But one of the more troubling aspects of the past several years was the growing Leftist bias of the mainstream media.  In years past, journalism used to be straight up objective reporting of events and facts.  However, the mainstream media changed (“progressed”) and opinions (Leftist narratives) began to be injected into “news” stories.  Fortunately, many citizens began to realize that we were being “misinformed” by the media about Russian collusion, Covid, peaceful protests, Hunter Biden’s laptop, the January 6^th “insurrection”, etc.

What is now happening to the mainstream media is simply a free market outcome.  The public is no longer buying the Left’s narratives.  And the media has begun to pay the price for their misdeeds, as ABC and George Stephanopoulos recently agreed to pay President Trump $15 million to settle a defamation (libel) lawsuit. Broadcast television (ABC, CBS and NBC) along with CNN and MSNBC have seen their viewership decline dramatically.  The same downward trajectory is happening with the Washington Post and the New York Times. 

Fortunately, there is now a variety of new sources where people can go to get their news (and opinions).  Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter (now called X) was a huge boost to freedom of speech.  And Mark Zuckerberg has now admitted to the “errors” of Facebook and has pledged to be a supporter of free speech in the future.  (We’ll see how well that plays out).  In addition, conservative podcasts are experiencing significant growth.

Many conservatives had begun to wonder why so many of our country’s citizens were beginning to accept the “promises” of Socialism.  It’s not because Socialism has a very good track record.  Winston Churchill once said, “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,” and “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Unfortunately, the Left’s influence on college campuses is still prevalent and must continue to be combatted.  (Thank you, Charlie Kirk and TPUSA). And there is no doubt the mainstream media outlets will continue to disseminate the propaganda of the Left, but it appears that the tides are beginning to turn.

US Debt Clock – – February 1^st – $107,100 per citizen / March 1st – $107,400

E-Newsletter No. 134           February 2025     

As we noted last month, the work to restore our country’s fundamental principles is just beginning.  There is a reason why the First Amendment to the US Constitution was listed first in the Bill of Rights.  There are three key elements in the First Amendment – – the freedom of religion, the right of the people to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the freedom of speech and a free press. 

These elements were under constant attack during the four years of the Biden administration.  The persecution of Jack Philips, the Colorado cake baker, for his religious beliefs is well known.  Unfortunately, the persecution continued, even after he won his case at the Supreme Court.  Many college campuses instituted “safe spaces” that served to limit the gathering of students and hampered their ability to hear from conservative speakers.

The attacks on Freedom of Speech were most egregious.  Parents who chose to speak at school board meetings against Critical Race Theory and “sex education” (i.e., the promotion of the LGBTQ+ agenda) in their children’s classrooms were labeled “domestic terrorists.” It has also become widely known that the Biden administration colluded with many of the Big Tech companies to censor speech on the companies’ platforms.  There was a list of topics that were flagged when conservatives pushed back against the administration’s “approved narratives” (the propaganda).  The list included alternative opinions (and facts) about the Covid pandemic, the safety and effectiveness of the “vaccines,” “climate change,” the conduct of the most secure elections in our country’s history in 2020, etc.  Contrary postings would be censored, and an individual’s social media account would be suspended.

We do not discount the government’s right to publicize their viewpoints.  However, alternative viewpoints against the government’s “misinformation” on topics such as “Russian collusion”, Hunter Biden’s laptop, etc. were suppressed.  And the mainstream media has been a big part of the problem.  This has resulted in the media being viewed as simply a mouthpiece for the Biden administration’s narratives.

A recent example was the dialogue between our country’s new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Margaret Brennan of CBS, who was attempting to link the Trump administration to Hitler’s Nazis, by saying that free speech had fueled the Nazis’ ability to perpetrate the Holocaust.  Fortunately, Marco Rubio was able to educate her by explaining that one of the primary reasons why the Holocaust happened was because there was NO freedom of speech in Germany to push back against the Nazis’ propaganda.

Next month, we will talk about the Left’s constant attacks on the Second Amendment.

US Debt Clock – – January 1^st – $106,900 per citizen / February 1st – $107,100

As we noted last month, We-the-People elected President Trump so that we can begin to fundamentally transform our country back to its original founding principles.  There are several top priorities, but one of the major issues that helped decide the November presidential election was the open border and the millions of illegal aliens within our country. 

We have posted a new Conversation Piece on our website –

Nearly all of these recommendations have been put forward by other conservatives over the past several years.  The time has come to implement comprehensive immigration reform, to make a permanent fix to all of our country’s immigration issues.  Other than some new legislation that is needed to address the process by which Legal Migrants are allowed to enter our country, we believe that most of the problems of the past several years could have been avoided simply by enforcing the laws that are currently on the books.

We need to make our voices heard and put pressure on our US Senators and Representatives in the House for an immigration system that adheres to the following principle – – There are only three categories of people who should ever be within our country’s borders.  The first group is US Citizens.  The second group consists of Legal Migrants who will be allowed to stay within the borders of the country (see the accompanying Conversation Piece).  And the third group consists of Legal Migrants who are in the country on a temporary basis for education, temporary work, tourism or other reasons, and who have a fixed date of their departure from our country.  Anyone else is, by definition, an Illegal Alien.

The Left needs to acknowledge that an Illegal Alien has committed a serious crime.  We are no longer going to give credence to the Left’s mantra that “No One is Illegal,” which is simply another example of their contempt for the Rule of Law and their opposition to laws they do not accept. 

Unfortunately, the past four years have resulted in a number of complex issues pertaining to the children of Illegal Aliens.  In addition, we have hundreds of thousands of missing unaccompanied minor children.  These issues are discussed in the accompanying Conversation Piece. 

We recognize that there will be differences of opinion about these recommendations, so please feel free to hit “Reply” and send us back your comments.

Next month, we will cover Freedom of Speech, Big Tech, and Censorship.

US Debt Clock – – December 1^st – $106,800 per citizen / January 1st – $106,900

E-Newsletter No. 132           December 2024     

On November 5^th, We-the-People decided to fundamentally transform our country back to its original founding principles.  The message was that we want to shrink the size and scope of the federal government.  We want to curtail the administrative state, drain the swamp, and re-establish the principle behind the Tenth Amendment – – give more power back to the states and to the people.  And hopefully, the new administration will advance the cause of liberty and protect our freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights. 

We rejected identity politics and the divisiveness that had been promoted by the Left.  Hopefully, e pluribus unum will continue to re-emerge.  There were encouraging shifts towards conservative values that have served our country well in the past and have made our country a beacon of hope and freedom around the world.

But the To Do list is long and challenging.  We must fix our broken immigration system.  We must become energy independent.  We must re-establish Freedom of Speech and combat censorship.  The mainstream media must transform itself – more unbiased reporting of the news (good and bad) and less serving as the mouthpiece of the Left.  If the legacy media companies do not do that, they will become increasingly irrelevant and their downward trends will continue.

And the federal government must get its fiscal house in order.  We-the-People have spoken, and we pin a lot of our hopes on D.O.G.E. (the Department of Government Efficiency). 

US Debt Clock – – November 1^st – $106,200 per citizen / December 1st – $106,800

E-Newsletter No. 131           November 2024     

On November 5^th, We-the-People have an opportunity to fundamentally transform our country back to its original founding principles.  Unfortunately, we have witnessed what happens when elitists / “progressives” use the power of the federal government to try to change the nature of our country.  Leftists have been on a never-ending quest to have our citizens accept socialist philosophies. 

Socialism has never been successful in any country where it has been tried.  “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy” – Winston Churchill.  “The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”- Margaret Thatcher. 

America is fine, and it can be made great again.  What has become broken is the federal government, and this has had a devastating effect on our country’s citizens.  Our founders established a Constitutional Republic with very limited enumerated powers and with a Bill of Rights (and freedom and liberty) that shall not be infringed.  As we discussed last month, Leftists despise our Constitution because of those limitations.  Unfortunately, we have witnessed decades of “progressive” policies that have undermined our Constitution.  Several recent surveys show that a large majority of our citizens feel the country is not heading in the right direction.  It’s time for us to exit that bad path and implement Term Limits, re-establish fiscal responsibility, and shrink the size and scope of the federal government. 

Many of our country’s citizens have become disgusted by the amount of money spent on elections.  However, political advertisements are important, because they represent free speech and help point out the differences between the candidates / political parties.  However, the best way to reduce the amount of money spent on elections is to make the elections less important in our lives.  Unfortunately, “progressive” policies have fostered a growing dependency on the government to solve a person’s issues, whether it be to pay off their student loan, or buy a house, or give someone a Universal Basic Income with money that was earned by someone else.  That is what Socialism is all about.  Civil society groups that come together voluntarily (not coercively via taxes) to help someone in need are a much better solution.  And then there is that fundamental founding principle that conservatives embrace – the concept of Personal Responsibility.

US Debt Clock – – October 1^st – $105,000 per citizen / November 1st – $106,200

E-Newsletter No. 130           October 2024     

As Dennis Prager explains in the following video, one of the most important differences between the Left and the Right is how each regards the role and the size of the government – https://youtu.be/sxe5GcMH5yA

This is one of the most important issues that our country’s citizens face in connection with this year’s elections.  Leftists (especially the elitists) believe there should be no power that competes with the government.  Conservatives believe the government’s role in society should be limited to absolute necessities.  They want a government so small you can barely see it.  This is also what the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution is all about.  Thomas Paine (in his pamphlet entitled Common Sense) explained that civil society is a blessing and promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections.  The reason for government is entirely different.  Government is needed to restrain our vices.  Government is but a necessary evil, and in its worst state an intolerable one.  Unfortunately, as governments grow in size and power, this inevitably leads to ever-increasing amounts of corruption.  Big Government eats away at the moral character of a nation. 

In the past, we have talked about the need for an Article V Convention of States.  Congress will not put forward any amendments that will rein in our out-of-control Federal government.  Each of the three planks in the COS Resolution is vitally important, including the need for Term Limits and Fiscal Responsibility.  However, the third plank – to restrict the size and scope of the Federal government might be the most important one of all.  And of course, this is the primary reason why Leftists are adamantly opposed to the Convention of States initiative.

Unfortunately, our country’s politics is causing a growing divide between Democrats and Republicans.  Actually, one of the main causes of the divide is embedded in the names of the two parties.  Republicans accept the wisdom of our country’s founders, who wrote our US Constitution and established a Constitutional Republic.  We pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands.  When asked what the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had come up with, Benjamin Franklin responded “A republic, if you can keep it.”  The radical Left despises the Constitution and the limits it places on the government.

Democrats, on the other hand, want “democracy.”  Our country’s Founders were opposed to the idea of a Mobocracy, where 51% rule over the other 49%.  A Constitutional Republic has checks and balance and separations of power.  Our country continues to use democratic principles, such as voting and passing laws based on the will of the majority.  However, history has shown that a pure Democracy is a poor choice for a government.  Alexander Fraser Tytler (a Scottish historian from the 1700s) said, “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time the voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy…”  Yep.

US Debt Clock – – September 1^st – $104,575 per citizen / October 1st – $105,000

E-Newsletter No. 129           September 2024

Several years prior to becoming Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson of Louisiana published a list of Seven Principles that made America the greatest, most free country in the history of mankind.  Here are the principles, and excerpts from what he was saying.  We have also included some comments on where the Left has an alternative view of these principles.

 1. Defend individual Liberty.  We the People know how to spend the money we earn.  We know how to raise our children to be good citizens.  The word Liberty is stamped on every coin, and we discussed the Left / Right differences on the issue of Liberty in our July 2024 newsletter.  Individual Liberty is not a value of the Left.  It hinders their ability to create the biggest government they can build.  As government grows, the freedom and liberty of each and every individual American citizen diminishes.

 2.  Limit Government Power.  Unelected bureaucrats have become dictators with nearly unlimited power to regulate away our freedoms.  This fundamental Left / Right difference is on full display in connection with the upcoming November 2024 elections.  It is time to Drain the Swamp. 

 3.  Restore the Rule of Law.  Leftists and the current administration have decided that following the law is optional.  Existing laws that used to be effective in defending our southern border are being ignored.  Without the rule of law, our country is descending into chaos, with rampant crime growing in our major cities.  

 4.  Create peace through strength.  During the Trump Administration, peace broke out around the globe.  Our military made good on its promises and leaders around the world respected us.  The Biden Administration oversaw the disastrous exit from Afghanistan, which then served to embolden our enemies.  We must again lead with strength, defend our allies, and keep our foes in line.

 5. Exercise Fiscal Responsibility.  There is no sugarcoating this.  The federal government is stealing the future of our children by overspending trillions of dollars.  This is a mutual failing by both political parties in Washington DC.  We all know the Left will continue to grow the government as much as possible, with no end in sight.  Republicans go along to get along, to get other important pieces of legislation passed.  But this overspending must stop.  The value of our US dollar will never recover unless we cut spending.

 6.  Free the Market.  Taxes kill businesses, and regulations kill innovation.  The Left’s advocacy of Socialism over Capitalism, and their desire for more taxes and more regulations is on full display.  If we cut taxes and eliminate ridiculous regulations, our economy will boom (again).

 7.  Respect Human Dignity.  Judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.  Acknowledge that all men are created equal.  Honor marriage and family as the cornerstone of our civilization.  Protect the lives of the innocent and the unborn.  Nothing illustrates this difference between the Left and Right more clearly than the issue of abortion.  An abortion of a baby in the third trimester represents a total disregard for not only human dignity but for human life itself.

US Debt Clock – – August 1^st – $104,200 per citizen / September 1st – $104,575

E-Newsletter No. 128           August 2024

During his campaign to be the Republican nominee for president, Vivek Ramaswamy put forward a list of Ten Truths–

 1.  God is real.

 2.  There are two genders.

 3.  Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.

 4.  Reverse racism is racism.

 5.  An open border is no border.

 6.  Parents determine the education of their children.

 7.  The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.

 8.  Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.

 9.  There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.  

10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedom in history.

For conservatives, we know exactly what each of these ten truths mean, and we accept these long-standing and (until recently) universally accepted truths.  Unfortunately, there are elements of these truths that are being rejected by the Left.  For purposes of this short newsletter, we will let the above truths stand “as is.”  However, to give the Left their fair amount of airtime, we have prepared an Addendum where we discuss what we have heard from certain Leftists as to why they do not agree with these truths. 

US Debt Clock – – July 1^st – $103,500 per citizen / August 1st – $104,200

Left vs Right – Ten Truths – Addendum

E-Newsletter No. 128-A          August 2024

 1. God is real.  Conservatives don’t really care if you are a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, or even a (non-Jihadist) Muslim.  Conservatives only care if you are a moral person.  John Adams once said “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”  Unfortunately, it has become apparent that for many on the Left, their religion has become Big Government.  Some Leftists regularly attempt to remove the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance and oftentimes are seen excluding these words when they recite “their” pledge.

  2. There are two genders.  The science is real – the combinations of X and Y chromosomes determine gender.  If you have XX chromosomes, you are a female.  If you have XY chromosomes, you are a male.  Gender dysphoria is a mental-health disorder. Unfortunately, some Leftists (including a recently appointed and confirmed Supreme Court Justice) reject this science and instead believe that gender is a “social construct.”  According to Wikipedia, some Leftists believe there are over 50 genders.  Sponsoring Drag Queen Story Hours in schools and sowing the seeds of gender confusion in a young child’s mind is immoral. 

 3.  Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.  Eight times as many people die from cold temperatures as warm ones.  In fact, climate-related deaths have dropped 98% over the last century.  This is due to both heating and air-conditioning, which are primarily powered by fossil fuels.  These facts are not reported by the mainstream media, which focuses on spreading fear about a theoretical increase in temperatures 100 years from now.  The Left continues to try to use the fear of Global Warming (now known as “Climate Change”) in their war against fossil fuels.  The adverse economic effects of this war – high gasoline prices and the resulting high inflation – are detrimental to all of us, but especially to the poor.  Regular (normal) weather events are now automatically tied to this doomsday narrative.  Contrary to the projection by Al Gore in the 2006 documentary entitled An Inconvenient Truth, a 20-foot increase in sea levels “in the near future” has not happened.  The number and intensity of hurricanes and tornadoes have also not increased as they were “predicted” to do.  The mainstream media has also failed to report on the disastrous environmental effects of forcing consumers to purchase EVs, starting with the mining of the rare earth minerals that are needed to produce the batteries.  And the subsequent environmental effects of disposing these batteries (along with the disposal of wind turbine blades and solar panels) once they reach the end of their useful life is not reported at all. 

 4. Reverse racism is racism.  It was the Republican party that ended slavery in the 1860s.  It was the Republican party that pushed for and passed the 1960s era civil rights legislation (overcoming the obstacles and obstruction from the Democrat party).  The Democrat party is now fixated on race, whereas conservatives couldn’t care less about the amount of melatonin in a person’s skin.  “Systemic racism” and “White Privilege” are simply false narratives being pushed by the Democrat party and their allies in the mainstream media.  The 1619 Project is an attempt to re-write American History and help promote the teaching of Critical Race Theory in public schools.  The real underlying narrative of the Democrat party is that blacks are victims, and they need reparations and government welfare programs.  Reliance on the government only leads to an increase in dependency.  Buying votes, instead of helping people escape poverty, appears to be one of the primary objectives of the Democrat party’s welfare programs. 

5. An open border is no border.  It is shameful that we spend hundreds of billions of dollars in military aid to other countries, but we fail to protect our own southern border.  Illegal immigrants, human traffickers and fentanyl are crossing our open borders.  The Democrat party in many of the states they control is the party of failure, high taxes and increasing debt.  Citizens are fleeing those Blue states to move to Red states.  The Democrats need to re-fill their states with illegal aliens to maintain their seats in the US House of Representatives.  The apportionment of seats in the US House of Representatives should be based on the number of US citizens in each state, not the total number of people.  The Democrat party appears to be more interested in the welfare of illegal aliens instead of our country’s citizens.

6.  Parents determine the education of their children.  When Ralph Northam was governor of Virginia, he made the mistake of saying that the teachers unions and school administrators were the sole decision makers on what is taught in public schools.  Parents in Virginia said “I don’t think so” and voted him out of office.  Unfortunately, the Left will not stop in their efforts to indoctrinate our children via the public school system.  As Vladimir Lenin said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”  Parents know what is best for their kids.  The current monopoly that is run by the teachers unions and Democrat politicians needs to end and be replaced by school choice alternatives.

 7.  The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.  Children in father-absent homes are almost four times more likely to be poor and twenty times more likely to end up in jail.  Nearly one-fourth of children in America don’t have a father in the home.  True “privilege” in our country is being raised in a stable family with two parents.  Until they removed this particular “plank” from their website, Black Lives Matter used to say “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families… “  Obviously, conservatives do not agree with that particular recommendation.

8.  Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.  Capitalism has lifted more people up from poverty than any other economic system in the history of mankind.  Economic Socialism has never worked in any country where it has been tried, including Sweden and Denmark.  Capitalism is the only truly moral economic model that exists – it operates as a (non-coerced) exchange of goods and services between individuals who mutually benefit from the exchange.  Crony capitalism, which is the collusion between big businesses and big government is the economic model that the Democrat party is trying to advance.  Crony capitalism’s beneficiaries are the elites in those businesses and the government – at the expense of individuals.

9.  There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.  The biggest open secret in modern America is that the people we elect don’t actually run the government.  The Administrative State is comprised of nonelected government officials who have no accountability to American citizens, only to the government itself, and oftentimes to the detriment of our country’s citizens.  The Founders never envisioned the massive size and scope of the current federal government.  Instead, they said in the Tenth Amendment that if something isn’t listed in the Constitution, it was a responsibility that was reserved to the States “or to the people.”  The amount of money wasted by the federal government is truly staggering, and the Democrat party regularly calls for more programs, more agencies, more taxes, and more spending.

10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedom in history.  “Progressive” Leftists tout themselves as being the “champions of democracy,” and they want to fundamentally transform our country.  In many ways they constantly demonstrate how they reject the original intent of the Constitution, especially the Tenth Amendment.  Our country was established as a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy, where 51% get to rule over the other 49%.  The Left’s desire for power has no limits.  On the other hand, conservatives want a government so small you can barely see it.  As government grows, the freedom and liberty of each and every individual American citizen diminishes.

E-Newsletter No. 127           July 2024

In our July 2019 newsletter, we included a link to a video on the American Trinity.  These three fundamental American values are stamped onto every coin and are printed on all of our country’s currency. 

https://www.prageru.com/video/the-american-trinity-the-three-values-that-make-america-great/

There is a growing divide between the Left and Right on each of these fundamental values.  Conservatives hold fast to these values that date back to our country’s Founding.  The growing divide in our country is entirely due to the fact that the “progressive” Left has drifted away from these fundamental values.

E Pluribus Unum means Out of Many, One.  A standard Marxist tactic is to divide a country’s citizens into a variety of subgroups and then pit those groups against each other.  The examples are too numerous to list them all, but here is a sampling – Bourgeoise vs Proletariat, Rich vs Poor, Black vs White, One Ethnicity vs another, Men vs Women, Urban vs Rural, Young vs Old, Heterosexual vs LGBTQ+, and so on.  Conservatives would like our country to return to those days when there was an emphasis on a single, shared common denominator – being proud to be an American citizen.  Part of the problem is that the “progressive” Left wants to fundamentally transform our country.

Liberty is highly prized by Conservatives, and any form of coercion by the government is met with resistance.  The Pledge of Allegiance calls for Liberty for All.  However, it appears that Liberty means very little to those on the Left, who seem to be OK with the government running virtually every aspect of their lives.  This includes being forced to buy an EV, giving up incandescent light bulbs for LEDs, being forced to give up their gas stoves, being forced to pay off someone else’s student loans, etc.  And then there is the issue of protecting our unalienable rights that are under constant attack by the Left, i.e., Freedom of Speech, Religious Liberties, the Right to Bear Arms, etc.

And what about the motto “In God We Trust”?  Karl Marx despised religion, calling religion the opium of the masses.  It can be said that the religion of the Left is Big Government (along with the associated coercion).  The attacks on Religious Liberties by Leftists are not limited to the US and are not limited to attacks on Christianity.  The Left is bringing back antisemitism in the US and in other countries around the world.  And by now, you have probably seen the “parody” of the Last Supper during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in France.  The parody included a woman wearing a silver, halo-like headdress who stood at the center of a long table, drag queens posing on either side of her, and a nearly naked man painted blue on a dinner plate.  Yes, we concede that the organizers of the Olympics have Freedom of Speech to produce their “art.”  Their justification was that it was an attempt to broaden diversity, community, and inclusion.  However, the parody was a despicable mockery of Christianity.  The good news is that the resulting loss of viewership of the Olympics has been one of the welcome side effects of the organizers’ poor decision.

US Debt Clock – – June 1^st – $103,300 per citizen / July 1st – $103,500

E-Newsletter No. 126           June 2024

Many of the differences between the Democrat party and the Republican party were on full display during the June 27, 2024, debate between president Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump. 

Donald Trump stressed safety and security issues and protecting the rights of our country’s citizens.  These are the legitimate and constitutional roles of the federal government, which are to the benefit of all citizens under the general welfare clause.

Joe Biden promised additional federal government spending on a growing list of programs that are to the benefit of specific subgroups of our country’s citizens.  These “progressive” priorities are the root cause of the growth in the size and scope (and intrusiveness) of the federal government.  None of this spending was ever contemplated by our country’s founders when they wrote the Constitution.  The role of the (limited) federal government is spelled out in Article 1, Section 8, and the Tenth Amendment says that the powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the States or to We the People. 

US Debt Clock – – May 1^st – $103,100 per citizen / June 1st – $103,300