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 1st – $103,100 per citizen / June 1st – $103,300