Democrats are becoming increasingly distraught over
the fact that we now have a president who possesses the requisite cojones to
embark on an effort to realign what is essentially the world’s food chain and
is determined to place America where it rightfully belongs…squarely at the
top. You see, Democrats much preferred
the Barry ‘O’ approach regarding America’s standing in the world and his
perception of how all that is wrong in this world must be viewed as somehow
being America’s fault.
President Trump, however, has a slightly different
take on things. You see, he made no
‘apology tour.’ His approach is that
there can be only one top dog, and it is not to be a part that every country
should get a shot at playing. Frankly
it’s about time that we had an American president doing what it is that the
American taxpayers pay him to do, stand up for America, not coddle wimpy ‘allies’
who seem to be more than willing to take all they can from us while providing
next to nothing in return.
So it was then that when Democrat Steny Hoyer was recently
asked whether President Trump was right to call on America’s NATO allies in
Europe to increase their own defense spending, it was this genius who said “no
previous president has been so confrontational” towards “our close allies and
friends.” Hoyer added that “while
[Trump] was appropriate in urging the objective, he was inappropriate in the
way he did it.” I’m just not seeing
anything that was “inappropriate” in what he said?
It was during a press conference on Capitol Hill back
on July 19 that a reporter asked Hoyer, “Was President Trump right to push our
NATO allies to pay more for their own defense?”
Hoyer said, “Look, I think it has been a consistent position of Democrat
and Republican administrations -- and in agreement within NATO itself -- that
there would be a two-percent target.” He
said, “I think the president was reiterating our support for that target and
urging our European allies to achieve that target.”
Hoyer continued, “Having said so, no previous
president has been so confrontational as opposed to cooperative with our close
allies and friends. In my opinion, while he was appropriate in urging the
objective, he was inappropriate in the way he did it.” Hoyer’s comments come after President Trump
visited Brussels, where he provided some much needed pressure on European
leaders to meet NATO’s rule requiring its members to spend at least two-percent
of their GDP on defense.
And something that I had absolutely no problem with,
but Hoyer apparently did, was the fact President Trump chose to criticize
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan to construct the Russian-German Nord
Stream II gas pipeline, which he warned would threaten Germany’s energy
independence. What we in effect have here,
is Germany essentially subsidizing the very country from whom they supposedly
need to be protected and America is left with picking up the tab for that
protection!
The American taxpayer has subsidized our socialist 'allies'
for far too long. We work hard for our money and on average we put in far more
hours than do ‘workers’ in Europe. Perhaps
they receive more benefits with fewer hours worked because they depend on us to
protect them. It’s a welfare program to these EU countries who have spent the
last few decades badmouthing us. Our
national debt increases while they sit on their collective ass letting us take
up the slack their socialism has created.
The Europeans are acting like teenagers who move out
of the house only to find out they’re expected to pay their own way in the
world. These are wealthy countries and
there is no reason for America to cover the cost of their defense. Especially when they are paying 70 Billion
dollars to the very nation they are supposed to be defended from. If they were buying that natural gas from us
then their whining would be a bit more understandable. But even then they
should be paying for their own defense.
Something else that Hoyer seems to have forgotten,
but then he is a Democrat, is the fact that respect is a two way street and
America has long been disrespected by our supposed European ‘allies.’ As have the American people. Personally I have no issues with what the
president said, nor with how said it.
I’m just glad that we finally have a president in possession of a pair. We have been screwed by our ‘allies’ for far too
long. And Hoyer apparently thinks we
need to continue getting screwed.
Look, President Trump is only doing what he said he
would do, which makes him quite different from his more recent predecessors. For
decades our “allies” have betrayed our generosity extended during and after
WWII. And each time we asked them nicely to get rid of the trade barriers,
unfair fees, and targeted regulations/specifications to block American products
so their industries could grow, and each time we asked them to pull their
weight in NATO and the UN, they simply choose to ignore us.
And it has been in the meantime that we have run up
a $20 Trillion debt, $500 Billion budget deficits, and find ourselves alone
protecting our “allies.” Demanding President
Trump do and act the same way the former administrations behaved and then
somehow expecting different results than what we have experienced under the
Bushes, ‘Slick Willy’ Clinton, and Barry ‘O’ would seem to define Steny as
insane. And yet that is exactly what
Steny and his Democrat cohorts expect to happen.
As far as I’m concerned President Trump has already accomplished
more in the short time he has been in office, than Barry ‘O’ did in eight long years,
and simply because of the way he did it.
And in Hoyer we have a guy who is absolutely clueless when it comes to
history. Perhaps he should spend a bit
more time reading about President Eisenhower and the European Defense Community
negotiations before the next time he decides to open his big mouth again and
lets all of that stupid spew out.
But it is in one sad sense that Hoyer is right. President Trump is the first president in a
very long time who’s been willing to tell it like it is. Our European ‘allies’ have gotten away with a
free ride for over 70 years. Hoyer was
also another who was only too happy to look the other way while Barry ‘O’ was
sending a plane load of cash over to Iran and playing footsy with Cuba all the
while he was sticking it to friends like Israel. Democrats like Hoyer really
need to decide whose side it is that they are on.
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