Dear Editor,
John Adams famously said: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” How true.
I wanted to address something I read by The Progressive Pioneer in the March 1st column. In said column, she addresses the recent petition to sell Montana to Canada. While it was an interesting column, and I agree 100% that Montana should not be sold to Canada, I took issue with a specific line in there:
“I’m no math professor, but $1 trillion won’t even skim the surface of the history making $22 trillion deficit that this current administration has racked up.” Wait, “this current Administration”???
Let me just remind our Progressive Pioneer of something: The debt was at roughly $10 trillion when President Obama took office. When he left office after 8 years, it was just under $20 trillion. I myself am not a math whiz, yet I am pretty sure that means his administration racked up almost $10 trillion in debt during his term in office…which means this current administration has racked up about $2 trillion since.
To be honest, I am not at all happy with how the U.S. National Debt is being handled. It is a very big failing of both the Obama administration and the Trump administration. However, laying all the blame for our Nation’s horrendous debt on “this current administration”, as you put it, is wrong and unfair. Regardless of how you feel about our current President, making spurious and off hand comments like the above is a failure in itself.
While I appreciate people have different views from mine…and respect their right to have those views, I don’t appreciate nor respect when their bias produces outlandish lies.
Amanda A. Scheidler
Ballantine, MT
