Posted on 12/11/2021 8:58:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Senator Joe Manchin was right. In September, he suggested that Democrats “hit the pause button” on their massive spending plans. At that time, the Build Back Better bill was $3.5 trillion — an inflationary bomb just waiting to go off.
Even after the Democrats cut the bill in half to $1.75 trillion, Manchin kept sounding the inflation alarm. He kept insisting that inflation wasn’t “transitory,” as Joe Biden still insists to this day. Manchin also asserted that it was fiscal madness to take on so much debt at this time.
Manchin’s September op-ed in the Wall Street Journal summed up the danger.
Those who believe such concerns are overstated should ask themselves: What do we do if the pandemic gets worse under the next viral mutation? What do we do if there is a financial crisis like the one that led to the Great Recession? What if we face a terrorist attack or major international conflict? How will America respond to such crises if we needlessly spend trillions of dollars today?
Instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation. A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic, and it will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not. While some have suggested this reconciliation legislation must be passed now, I believe that making budgetary decisions under artificial political deadlines never leads to good policy or sound decisions.
No one — not one Democrat, including Joe Biden — has been able to answer that argument. There is no great crisis where we absolutely need to spend another $2 trillion on top of the $6 trillion we’ve already spent,
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Mancin sometimes is more conservative than many GOP senators.
If we’re very lucky, this bill will implode upon itself.
Build back worse. Fixed it.
Cant everyone see how messed up things have become with 11 months of the best thinking of this administration? More of the same is only going to make things even worse! This bbb BS MUST be squashed and like for ever! If it passes...we will be truly screwed...if we aren’t already.
I guess it’s time for more covid panic.
RE: I guess it’s time for more covid panic.
OK, how’s that gonna help the Build Back Better Bill?
Never let a crisis go to waste. I’ve noticed a correlation between waves of msm covid panic and RATS needing cover and or wanting ‘consensus’ for legislation.
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https://youtu.be/ZpRj0nN1COE
Manchin is pitching Al Franken’s plan to kill filibuster - to Republicans.
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Rarely.
Manchin voted with Trump 50% of the time, less than the least reliable Republicans Susan Collins (65%) and Lisa Murkowski (72%).
Democrats are good at four things for certain; lying, thieving spending, raising taxes.
There’s an infomercial on You Tube about a small device that, when added to a car’s inner workings, gets you 1,000 miles to the gallon. Some Finnish engineering student dreamed it up and patented it. Won’t that cut down on emissions? Or does it have to be ruinously expensive and extra stupid to count.
“Another affirmation from Manchin that the BBB Steal everything They Have” bill is dead,
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RE: There’s an infomercial on You Tube about a small device that, when added to a car’s inner workings, gets you 1,000 miles to the gallon.
Thanks for this info. Could you share the YouTube link with us by posting it here?
“Manchin sometimes is more conservative than many GOP senators.”
I’d agree he has more stones that many GOP Senators, but I don’t know of a single major issue where he is even to the right of Murkowski (who, by the way, wants nothing to do with this ‘Build Back Better’).
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