It's So Frustrating.
This is, and I haven't done the research here, but do you guys recall the late 90s? We actually had a balanced budget. We had a budget surplus in America. I'm not kidding, kids.
This isn't folklore. And at that time, we had what I think was attributed to, at least in my mind, for the last 20 or so years was, okay, well, that was a Republican Congress, and that was a Democrat president. And yes, Bill Clinton was a self-serving hippie, but they weren't trying to destroy the nation necessarily.
I mean, it is a very intricate answer if you really want to get into the individuals inside the Clinton administration. But large part, he was just a selfish, self-serving guy, and, you know, politics is politics. And look, amazingly, we had more money than we spent for a couple of years there in the late 90s.
But I'm pretty sure that's about the time that USAID and the NGOs were really starting to figure out how to use the system to enrich themselves. And the irony is they still need the country and the government that is supported by it in order to keep with their enriching money-making schemes. I mean, but I want to say that they're so short-sighted that they don't see that they're killing their golden goose, which is this massive fraud.
But I think that they do look a lot further out than that. And without Trump getting elected and those he put into positions to root out this fraud, which is still well underway up in Minnesota, for example, with J.D. Vance's committee. But time is so limited, and we're already a year and a half into this administration, and when you don't get the support that you need from the Congress, it's so frustrating.
