On Point: No Debate: Biden's Damaged US Security, International, Domestic and Economic
by Austin Bay
June 26, 2024
In 2024, is the U.S. as physically and economically secure as it was when Joe Biden became president in January 2021?
That ought to be the decisive question in every serious presidential debate.
For mature and prudent voters -- they exist -- security issues are always the determinative issues. Gut-truth pollsters interested in finding the mature and prudent should frame their questions like so: Are you, your family and your town as physically safe now as they were 3 1/2 years ago? Internationally, is America as secure as it was in January 2021? Example: Is Communist China stronger and more aggressive in 2024? Had you even heard of Hamas and the Houthis in 2021? Money question: How do your current personal and community economic conditions and prospects compare to 2021?
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Alas. After 3 1/2 years of economic, military, diplomatic and social policy mayhem, the facts speak: Joe Biden, his handlers and their feckless media apparatchiks have severely damaged America's physical security, both international and domestic. It will take years to fix the harm of Bidenomics -- and the economic wreckage makes addressing the international (e.g., military) and domestic (e.g., police) security issues more difficult.
So start with the economy. On June 24, economist Mark Perry (now of the American Enterprise Institute) posted a succinct but damning tweet on X (formerly Twitter): "Federal spending on interest payments for the $34T(trillion) national debt now exceeds $1T for the first time and has doubled from $535B when Joe Biden took office and interest payments now exceed spending on national defense by more than any time in history."
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