Abramson: Why Democrats Oppose Spending Cuts

By Max Abramson

$1.3 billion in payments to people who had died years ago.

$465,000 for a casino for pigeons.

$565,000 on a study to see how long it would take to train a lion to walk on a treadmill.

$80 million to blow up a bridge in Iraq, and another $80 million to rebuild it.

Among billions in political patronage and vote buying.

In fact, Congress spends $15 to $20 billion annually on cruel animal studies that often involve cutting holes into the faces and skulls of animals trapped in cages.

More recently, the Democrat Congress approved $22 million to kill cats and dogs in China, then fly the animal meat to Maryland to force-feed kittens and puppies in cages.

As reported by John Stossel, they spent $2 million putting an outhouse on the side of a mountain that can only be reached by helicopter, interstate highways in Hawaii, and millions on bridges with no connecting roads.

All in addition to $155 billion in welfare, hotels, travel, and cash payments to an estimated 30 million illegal aliens.

Democrats, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and Talking Points Memo have been cranking out one-sided anti-Trump rhetoric for nine years, again falsely claiming (as Democrats have since 1964) that Republicans would somehow cut Social Security and other retirement benefits. Ironically, Democrats in Congress have voted 10 times in my lifetime to cut those same benefits while paying for DEI hiring, regime change wars, alcohol-fueled "conventions," and sex change operations in Africa, Asia, and South America.

Max Abramson is a former Republican state Representative who used to represent Hampton and Seabrook but now lives on Joston Drive in Merrimack.