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To: Lakeside Granny

$1.7 Trillion Spending Bill Promotes Human Extinction to Save Animals

“One provision in the bill states that “not less than” $575 million “should be made available for family planning/reproductive health, including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/1-7-trillion-spending-bill-promotes-human-extinction-to-save-animals/

3,515 posted on 12/21/2022 8:07:26 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)

Robby Starbuck
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Everyday I’m more convinced that our government’s a criminal cartel that just professionally wastes/launders money while dividing us along silly lines like skin color in order to trick us like a cheap magician who uses their sleight of hand to distract us as they pick our pocket.

3,516 posted on 12/21/2022 8:22:24 AM PST by exit82 (Either the Democrat Party will survive or America will survive. But not both.)

To: Rusty0604; Jane Long; JudyinCanada; All

Spot on article by Mollie.....

GOP Can’t Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone

BY: MOLLIE HEMINGWAY
DECEMBER 21, 2022

Comments Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made on Tuesday show why he has become the single biggest obstacle to GOP success.

The Kentucky Republican claimed giving more money to Ukraine is “the No. 1 priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans.” The new $1.7 trillion Democrat spending bill he enthusiastically supports would give Ukraine another roughly $45 billion in assistance, bringing the total over the past eight months to more than $100 billion, a staggering figure even if it weren’t happening during a time of inflation, looming recession, and other serious domestic problems.

The comment about Republican priorities is so false as to be completely delusional. Among the many concerns Republican voters have with Washington, D.C., a failure to give even more money to Ukraine simply does not rank.

A large coalition of conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and the Conservative Partnership Institute, publicly opposed ramming through more Ukraine support during the lame-duck session before Republicans take over control of the House on Jan. 3, 2023. Strong pluralities and majorities of Republicans have told pollsters they want decreases, not increases, in foreign spending and global military involvement.

Many Republican voters support helping Ukraine fight Russia’s unjust invasion, but it is absolutely nowhere near their top issue, contrary to McConnell’s false claim. It ranked higher as a priority before American taxpayers gave Ukraine more than was given to their war effort by nearly every other country in the world combined. But even at the height of support for the effort, before it turned into a massive proxy war with an unclear relationship to the U.S. national interest, it was not the top issue for Republicans, coming behind the economy and the U.S. border.

A majority of Americans polled a few months ago said more money should be given to Ukraine only after wealthy European countries match what Americans have already sent — something nowhere near happening.

Republicans care deeply about borders and national sovereignty, but they rank the protection of their own open border far above the protection of the borders of other countries. It is worth remembering that the longest government shutdown in U.S. history occurred in 2019 over a fight between Congress and President Donald Trump over whether to commit a relatively paltry $5 billion to protect our country’s southern border, which Congress had refused to fund.