'Endless Wailing'

Editor:

The endless wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Democrat media, including the North Coast Journal, regarding President Trump and his administration needs some important facts presented to the American people (NCJ Daily, March 6).

The federal government has a $36 trillion national debt. That debt is financed with bond sales requiring interest to be paid to the purchaser. That interest is now more than what is spent on national defense and Medicare each year. Our annual deficits are $2 trillion.

The federal unfunded liabilities of social security, Medicare and Medicaid are over $110 trillion. By 2033 or sooner, social security will need to reduce payments to remain solvent.

DOGE is waking up the country by trimming around the edges and shocking federal employees that their jobs are not guaranteed, especially staff that doesn’t even come into the office.

Hopefully $1 trillion can be saved with the terminations of staff, eliminating idiotic spending on insane projects and rooting out fraud and waste.

The biggest drivers of federal spending are the entitlement programs they have indexing, to account for inflation and add more and more beneficiaries without increases in revenue.

The problem of forcing taxpayers to “pay their fair share” is the revenue collected by Uncle Sam is never enough to satisfy members of Congress. For the last fiscal year, almost $5 trillion was taken by Washington, D.C —more money than any country has ever received in human history. And that wasn’t enough.

Tough and difficult decisions need to be made for the health of our country. Democrats are in “resist” mode again, wanting endless spending to continue. Thankfully their disastrous decisions — running a declining man and a dumb woman for president — resulted in Donald J. Trump returning to office to make those tough and difficult decisions. I look forward to more winning.

Dennis Scales, Fortuna