The strange thing about Will Rogers, the great American satirist, is that the longer he's dead,

the smarter he gets. The presidential election cycle unofficially began the day after Labor Day,

and I found myself in the library pulling the works of Rogers, whose populist newspaper column

began its run in the New York Times 100 years ago. His observations read like they were written

last week. Lord, the money we spent on government wrote Rogers, and it's not a bit better

government that we got but one third of the money 20 years ago. Think about that. The federal

budget under Joe Biden is three times what it was 20 years ago under George W. Bush who never

met a dollar himself that he didn't like to spend. The federal deficit, what the government spends

minus what it collects, is about three times more as a percentage of gross domestic product

under Biden than it was under Bush. Now in terms of foreign policy, Biden has made the same

mistakes as Bush committing the United States to a costly and endless proxy war in the Ukraine.

The billions in military and financial aid to a notoriously corrupt country is also financed

through debt just like Bush. Will Rogers had an answer to this spiraling madness. I have a scheme

for stopping the war he wrote. It's this. No nation is allowed to enter into another war until

they paid for the last one. Now members of Congress trip over themselves to genuflect to the

olive green cargo pants of Vladimir Zelinsky. Our representatives never come home though with a

stated endgame. This was true in Rogers time as well. The taxpayers are sending congressmen

on expensive trips abroad he wrote. It might be worth it except they keep coming back.

People today ache for a clear direction for the country. Instead we get talking points and

misdirection from the paid pipers from the political cesspool. If you ever inject truth into politics,

you have no politics wrote Rogers. Is there anything more untruthful than Bidenomics?

Default on consumer debt, auto loans and credit cards are at their highest levels in more than

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