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Volume 26, Issue 5
Democrats, Republicans, and the National Debt: Fiscal Incompetence or Selfishness?
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By Andrew Zuelke, State Chairman Constitution Party of Wisconsin September 2025
ber Congressional De- mocrats and Republi- cans do not mention. • US Total Debt - $106 trillion dollars. This number covers the Un- funded Debt/Interest, the unfunded liabilities. Our national debt, which has been accu- mulating for over forty years, brings us to one inescapable conclusion: our elected federal Con- gressmen and Presi- dents (who have been either Democrats and Republicans) past and present are either fis- cally incompetent or they are selfish. It is one
Let me be blunt: our nation is in serious finan- cial trouble, worse than we have been told by our Democrat and Republican “leaders.” At USDebtClock.org, there are several running counters tracking: the national debt, US Gross Domestic Product, population, defense, and more recently, the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E). When you go online, hover your computer cursor over any of these coun- ters, and a pop-up box will appear, listing sources like the US Treasury, Congressional Budget Office, the IRS, etc. As of the writing of this article, here are some raw numbers from the web site in dollars, rounded out for simplicity: • US National Debt - $37 trillion • US Federal Tax Revenue - $5 trillion • US Federal Spending - $7 trillion • US Debt Held by Foreign Countries – $9 tril- lion • US Federal Debt to GDP Ratio – 123.40% (in 1960 it was 52.46%)
a train was coming?” Unless it was an inactive rail line, he knew a train would be coming sooner or later. That is common sense. Democ- rats, Republicans it does not work for your par- ties’ elected officials to say, “The debt was a simple mistake. How could we possibly have known that spending more than we brought in year after year, decade after decade would cause the debt to grow this large?” Someone locking his keys in his house, that is a mistake (I have done that). Someone driving too fast on an ice-covered road and going into the ditch, one could argue that was a mistake. When someone knows ahead of time something is not ethical or moral to do and they go ahead and do that thing anyway, sorry, that is not a mistake or an unavoidable accident. In other words, both Democrats and Republi- cans, are both: • Fiscally irresponsible – They saw this debt train barreling towards the stalled car. Their own “Yea!” votes in Congress caused the debt to grow. • Selfish – They knew funding many of the enti- tlement programs and excess military funding beyond what we brough in for revenue would rack up massive debt and they kept deficit spending anyway. If the Constitution Party had no other argu- ment against the Democratic and Republican parties staying in power, the national debt is the only argument we need. Both major parties will say they must deficit spend because millions of Americans rely on en- titlement and other federal programs. I say that a bankrupt nation cannot help anyone. If our economy collapses from this massive debt, there is a run on the banks, and hyper-inflation, there will be no monies to fund anything. America will be broken from within and unable to defend it- self from enemies without. This is the story of nations and empires throughout history which debased their cur- rency (before paper money, nations debased their coinage by mixing lesser metals like tin and copper into their gold and silver coins). The laws of economics do not stop at America’s borders. The financial irresponsibility, corruption and over-regulation from growing bureaucracies which brought down other civilizations can and will bring down America. The fact that our econ- omy has not collapsed yet does not mean it never will. Sooner or later, the spending gala will be over and it will be time to pay the overdue bill. ConstitutionPartyOfWisconsin.com (608) 561-7996
or the other…or worse, both. It is absurd to rack up that much debt and not be one or the other.
If I say to Democrats and Republicans who al- lowed this debt to accrue that you are fiscally in- competent, they will immediately say, “No, we are not. Our parties’ officials are the stewards
Here is the most disturbing number, the num-
and the protectors of hard-working Ameri- cans’ money. Only our two parties can handle America’s huge financial decisions.” Ok, then De- mocrats and Republi- cans are selfish, spending up future gen- erations’ money for their short-term benefit to buy votes and stay in power. Both parties will immediately say, “We are not selfish. We all ran for office to serve the American people. We sacrifice for our con- stituents every day.” If someone is driving down the road and his car stalls on the railroad tracks, the driver has a responsibility to 1) get help moving/towing his car off the tracks and 2) to contact the authori- ties and/or railroad company to warn them of the risk to any on- coming train. One of the driver’s choices should never be to leave the car on the tracks and sue the railroad company if the train engineer hits and totals the car. In other words, choices one and two are our elected officials (the car drivers) taking re- sponsibility for the car (our tax dollars and na- tional budget), not to leave the car sit on the tracks for the railroad company and engineer (future generations of taxpayers) to deal with. It does not work for the driver to say, “How was I supposed to know
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