Posted on 03/24/2020 9:51:44 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Senate Democrats are trying to use a national emergency to force taxpayers to fund some of their most controversial and radical policies.
They have recommended hundreds of millions of dollars in pork barrel funding — including $35 million in funding for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It’s on page 76 of the massive document.
Democrats did not explain how funding a fancy theater would help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
But that amount pales in comparison to the $300 million allocated for the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.
The bill says the money is meant for “grants to respond to the impacts of coronavirus.” I reckon they are working on some sort of all-star musical celebration of the Wuhan Flu.
(Excerpt) Read more at toddstarnes.com ...
The only network that might show it would be Fox News. The uninformed voters don’t watch it.
That d___ center has NOTHING to do with helping out Americans! Just veto the like of horse doo. I do not want any of that Leftist stuff.
None of this will get out if the President doesn’t tell it...You are absolutely correct....
I would PAY to see that!!
On the way the King met a man with a fishing pole riding on a donkey, and he
asked the man if the fish were biting. The fisherman said, “Your
Majesty, you should return to the palace! In just a short time I
expect a huge rain storm.” The king replied: “I hold the palace
meteorologist in high regard. He is an educated and experienced
professional. Besides, I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very
different forecast. I trust him.”
So, the king continued on his way. However, in a short time a
torrential rain fell from the sky. The King and Queen were totally
soaked. Furious, the king returned to the palace and gave the order to
fire the meteorologist. Then he summoned the fisherman and offered him
the prestigious position of royal forecaster.
The fisherman said, “Your Majesty, I do not know anything about
forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see my
donkey’s ears drooping, it means with certainty that it will rain”
So, the king hired the donkey. And so, began the practice of hiring
dumb asses to work in influential positions of government.
And thus, the symbol of the democrat party was born. The practice is
unbroken to this very day
Missing in Action: Stimulus Sheriff Joe Biden
By Michelle Malkin - Oct 10, 2012
Copyright 2012, Creators Syndicate Inc.
Remember when President Obama bragged about Joe Biden’s fiscal discipline creds in 2009? “To you, he’s Mr. Vice President, but around the White House, we call him the Sheriff,” Obama warned government employees. “Because if you’re misusing taxpayer money, you’ll have to answer to him.” Fast-forward to 2012. Call in the search teams. Since being appointed the nation’s stimulus spending cop, Sheriff Joe has taken a permanent donut break.
He’s AWOL on oversight. In fact, he’s been bubble-wrapped, boxed and kept completely out of sight. The garrulous gaffe machine hasn’t sat down for a national media interview in five months.
The Democrats’ trillion-dollar “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” however, keeps piling up waste, failure, fraud and debt. Who benefited most? Big government cronies. According to Investor’s Business Daily, a new analysis by Ohio State economics professor Bill Dupor reported that “(m)ore than three-quarters of the jobs created or saved by Pres Obama’s economic stimulus in the first year were in government.”
Dupor and another colleague had earlier concluded that the porkulus was a predictable jobs-killer that crowded out non-government jobs with make-work public jobs and programs. Indeed, the massive wealth redistribution scheme “destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs” by siphoning tax dollars “to offset state revenue shortfalls and Medicaid increases rather than boost private sector employment.”
Will this Keynesian wreckage come up during Biden's debates? It should be a centerpiece of domestic policy discussion. Nowhere is the gulf between Obama/Biden rhetoric and reality on jobs wider. Remember: Obama’s Ivy League eggheads behind the stimulus promised that “(m)ore than 90 percent of the jobs created are likely to be in the private sector.” These are the same feckless economic advisers who infamously vowed that the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent — and that unemployment would drop below 6 percent sometime this year. Sheriff Joe rebuked the “naysayers” who decried the behemoth stimulus program’s waste, fraud and abuse. “You know what? They were wrong,” he crowed.
Sheriff Biden was radio silent about the nearly 4,000 stimulus recipients who received $24 billion in Recovery Act funds — while owing more than $750 million in unpaid corporate, payroll and other taxes. (Cash for Tax Cheats, anyone?)
He had nothing to say about:
<><> $6B in Homeowners' stimulus energy credits showered on nearly 1/3 of credit-claimers who had no record of homeownership, including minors and prisoners.
<><> $530 million dumped into profligate Detroit public schools for laptops and other electronics that had little, if any, measurable academic benefits.
<><> a whopping $6.7 million per job under the $50 billion stimulus-funded green energy loan program
<><> politically connected Green companies are now bankrupt---they took the money then went belly-up
<><> remember? Solyndra ($535M), Abound Solar ($400M), Beacon Power ($43M), A123 ($250M) and Ener1 ($119M).
<><> $1 million to Big Bird and Sesame Street “to promote healthy eating,” for a theoretical 1.47 jobs ($726K job created.)
<><> hundreds of stimulus millions to govt GSA junkets in Las Vegas and Hawaii,
<><> hundreds of millions to ghost congressional districts, dead people,
<><> 100's millions for infrastructures to nowhere,
<><> 100's of millions for endless stimulus propaganda
<><> millions for road signs stamped with Obama's "shovel-ready" logo.
Of course, there’s no example of unfettered stimulus squandering more fitting than the one named after Keystone Fiscal Kop Joe Biden himself. Government-funded Amtrak’s Wilmington, Del., station raked in $20 million in “recovery” money after heavy personal lobbying by the state’s most prominent customer and cheerleader. In return, the station (which came in $6 million over budget, according to The Washington Times) renamed its facility after Biden. Bloated costs.
Crony political narcissism. Glaring conflicts of interest. Monumental waste.
This is the Obama/Biden stimulus legacy bequeathed to our children and their grandchildren. Sheriff Joe and his plundering boss need to be run out of town on a rail.
SOURCE http://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/topic/v/Vice_President_/
As bad as it is the center is, there is rat BS in there that is far worse and yes Trump should highlight every single one of these things. He didn’t yesterday for his own reasons. Probably because the negotiations are ongoing. If the bill gets killed from the poison pills he needs to ignite.
That aging witch REALLY DOESN’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.
SO CLEAR.
I sure hope they can get the abortion money out of the bill, otherwise it’s going to feel like bloody money.
No doubt the embezzlers in the House are drooling over this bill. Wonder if Screech Waters is using a spreadsheet to project “earnings”?
Trump should create his own bill, 5 pages, without legalese, monies that go to "individuals" based on certain criteria of need/circumstance. Clean bill...no politics, cronyism, lobbyists, etc..
...and then I woke up.
That 1100+ page bill(+/- present day tweaks/pols)has been sitting in the demonrats hopey/changey drawer for decades...just waiting for the right opportunity to dust it off and shove it down America’s throat.
I’m beginning to think that it might be better if Fed.gov just went bankrupt, and we underwent a national financial and political “re-set.”
EXACTLY.
He should do a prime time address to the nation stating all this pork spending once the time is right.
They had it ALL from 2008 to 2016.
Were they not smart enough to take advantage of America and rape her while they had some power?
NOOOOO, they had to wait until we had the best possible Leader then ACT LIKE FOOLS.
Now, they are doing NOTHING BUT LOSING. Does my heart good.
It could have been a whole lot worse. Dems wanted it all - Christmas treed from hell. Our side stopped the worst of it.
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Unbelievable.
The center should be renamed the kopechne Kennedy Klan Center. And be dedicated to alcohol and drug awareness. KKK Center #me Too Democrats
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