"People Will Die" is Not a Principaled Response to the Big, Beautiful Bill

 President Trump signed the Big, Beautiful Bill, which had something in it for nearly everybody. Democrats didn't gripe about the expanded SALT tax exemption because rich people in the blue states were the primary beneficiaries. Instead, they focused their complaints on the modest cuts to Medicare, the supplemental food program, and other governmental services.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, who cadged her way into Harvard by claiming to be a Cherokee Indian, is leading the histrionic charge, saying, "People will die" as a result of the bill's passage. 

Other Democrats have joined her in waving the bloody shirt to stir partisan rancor. Senator Bernie Sanders, a doddering old fool, claimed the bill would kill 51,000 people a year. The leftist media slyly hints that we can blame the recent Texas flood fatalities on Trump's budget cuts, a contemptible bit of propaganda worthy of Joseph Goebbels, and sleazy Senator Chuck Schumer wants a federal investigation of that outrageous allegation.

The day is fast approaching when the nation's debt--$36 trillion and growing by the hour--will pull down America's economy. The Trump administration's efforts to trim the cost of government can be legitimately criticized, but shrieking "People will die" is not a principled response. 

The Democratic Party and its co-conspirators in academia and the media are no longer interested in civil debate on national policy issues. Their aim is to sow chaos, and chaos they will likely get. 

They will be surprised, however, by Flyover Country's reaction when the Heartland has had enough. The forces that long for chaos won't like it when that chaos shows up in Silicon Valley, Martha's Vineyard, the Hamptons, and Harvard Yard.

Senator Elizabeth Warren: "People will die!"

Trump is Playing Musical Chairs With the Democrats, and He's Already Lost

Say what you like about Elon Musk; he's right about the Big, Beautiful Bill. This legislation, which was approved by Congress on a party-line vote, will increase the national debt and lead to recession.

Ignoring the nation's mountainous national debt that grows larger by the day, Trump and the Republicans approved a 1000-page bill that does nothing to balance the national budget.

Democrats unanimously opposed the bill, putting them in a position to say "We told you so" when the American economy collapses. Nevertheless, they shrilly denounced the bill's modest cuts to Medicare and the food stamp program. Senator Elizabeth Warren, growing more deranged as she ages,  repeatedly yelled "People will die" as a result of the bill's passage. 

The United States, like Ernest Hemingway, is going bankrupt, slowly at first, "then suddenly." We're in the slow stage now, and no one knows when our economy will suddenly collapse under unmanageable debt. 

However, that day is coming when no one wants to buy U.S. Treasury bonds. We don't know when our house of cards will implode, but I predict it will be during Donald Trump's presidency. 

The Democrats will smugly explain that our coming Great Depression is due entirely to Trump's economic policies, and he will be left holding the bag. Trump will take the blame for our coming economic meltdown, even though this catastrophe was decades in the making. 

Put another way, Trump and the Democrats are playing musical chairs with the economy, but Trump doesn't know that's the game he's playing. The Democrats plan to have a seat when the music stops, leaving Trump outside the circle of inside players.

That being said, I'm glad Congress passed the Big, Beautiful Bill. It does nothing to get the nation's fiscal house in order, but at least it gives some tax relief to the people who need it most--older Americans and the struggling middle class. 

In other words, people like me.