There is one remarkably significant word in the description of that red line . . .
"Promised."
Those promises were made by Democrat politicians to labor union bosses - promises made by one set of crooks to another set of crooks - to be funded with money stolen from taxpayers. Therefore, such "promises" are nothing more than pie-in-the-sky bullsh!t.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence