Getting our priorities straight

Dear Congressman Adrian Smith,

In response to your E-news of 27 June 2020, “What About the Dent?” and your commentary on a National Infrastructure Bill …

While deficit and debt reduction are laudable goals, this is not the time to raise such concerns.

We have 30 million unemployed Americans - the direct result of actions taken by Democrat governors - who used the SARS-COV2 virus as a political cudgel to inflict suffering upon their residents, damage the national economy, and thus lessen President Trump’s re-election odds. Americans need employment, not lectures on the national debt. A National Infrastructure Bill will provide them that opportunity.

When measuring the real impact of debt, one must use the proper perspective: total assets vs total liabilities - the ratio between total assets (all land and capital) to total debt; i.e. our “net” worth. Presently, the national worth of the United States far exceeds our national debt.

While your prudence is commendable, it is misguided in the present political situation. More pointedly, Congressman Smith, your debt “concern” seems far less pressing when the passage of a trillion-dollar Farm Bill is in debate – the great majority of that expenditure being welfare: the same A-1 grade of Democrat-enforced political pork that now so intensely troubles you.

If it is not clear, allow me to remind you, Congressman Smith, that the NUMBER ONE GOAL, UPON WHICH EVERY REPUBLICAN MUST BE FOCUSED, IS THE REELECTION of PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. Nothing matters more. In that light, Congressman Smith, you are either riding the Trump Train, or you are working for the Democrat socialists, whose lust for power and control knows no bounds.

So, I am asking of you, and your fellows, to put fiscal concerns aside and see the bigger political picture: if President Trump loses his reelection bid, we ALL lose. In our present situation the economic interests of America, and our continued viability as a free nation, are best served by the passage of a National Infrastructure Bill and PUTTING AMERICANS BACK TO WORK!

Getting our priorities straight could not be more critical. The long-term costs of allowing the Democrats to regain control of the Presidency and the Senate are far more damaging than any burden of debt. If Republicans fail to support President Trump’s agenda, and he loses in November, our down-ballot Republicans will likely lose also - and the Democrats will ensure that America becomes a socialist nation. Deficits and the national debt will then be the least of our troubles.

Respectfully,

Bruce C. Desautels

Chairman, Hitchcock County Republican Party

Committeeman,

State Central

Committee

Stratton, Neb.