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Time for Some Hard Reflection: We Need to Start Cutting Entitlements

By C. Douglas Golden February 1, 2025 at 6:06pm

If you’re a Republican, you’ve had a lot of numbers to feel good about over the past few months.

Electoral votes: 312 of them. Votes for Donald Trump: 77 million. Popular vote: 49.8 percent to Kamala Harris’ 48.3 percent. Years in the White House: four more.

Those are some big, important numbers.

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2024 election, Debt, Donald Trump, Economics, Medicaid, Medicare, National debt, Social Security, The economy, Trump administration, Welfare, Welfare abuse

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).

Birthplace

Morristown, New Jersey

Education

Catholic University of America

Languages Spoken

English, Spanish

Topics of Expertise

American Politics, World Politics, Culture