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$1.5 TRILLION In Spending For A Bill No One Has Read
Battleswarm Blog ^ | 10 Mar 2022 | Lawrence Person

Posted on 03/11/2022 8:14:04 AM PST by Rummyfan

I know there’s a lot going on in the world today, but can we just take a moment to reflect on how crazy it is that the United States House of Representatives just passed a $1.5 TRILLION spending bill that no one has read?

The House passed an expansive $1.5 trillion spending bill on Wednesday night that includes funding for the government through the end of the fiscal year…

So that piddling, measly $1.5 trillion isn’t the full budget, it’s just through the end of the fiscal year, which is to say September 30. That’s more than Ronald Reagan’s first two budgets for their entire fiscal years combined.

…emergency aid for Ukraine’s war effort, but also a number of ambiguous programs abroad…

Really, who doesn’t like paying for “ambiguous programs abroad”?

...with pandemic relief funding being thrown out at the last minute.

The omnibus package was bifurcated into two votes, both of which received bipartisan support: one for defense spending and one for domestic social spending. For the former, which included funding for the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, and national security, the House voted 361-69. For the latter, the vote was 260-171. The renewal of funding for the government came before a federal funding was set to expire Friday.

Over 2,700 pages in length…

And here’s how you know that no single human being read all 2,700 pages, because it was unveiled yesterday. Of course, that’s the entire point, so no one can point out the graft and payouts earmarked for political cronies.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: democrats; demonicrats; house; spendingbill
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1 posted on 03/11/2022 8:14:04 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

And here’s how you know that no single human being read all 2,700 pages, because it was unveiled yesterday.


But who wrote it?

A dispersed committee of activists and lobbyists.


2 posted on 03/11/2022 8:17:18 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Rummyfan

330 million Americans. How much is that per person? Someone please do the math. I’ve given up on these people. GOP too.


3 posted on 03/11/2022 8:17:57 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (S)
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To: Rummyfan

Our Founding Fathers set up an inefficent govt with checks and balances.

We wanted and got an efficient govt.

Conservatives want a law to fix it right now.


4 posted on 03/11/2022 8:18:52 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

330 million Americans. How much is that per person? Someone please do the math. I’ve given up on these people. GOP too.


Only about 70,000,000 Americans actually pay a net income tax each year, so about $215,000 a piece.


5 posted on 03/11/2022 8:22:22 AM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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As long as they have the important things covered such as adequate funding for teaching proper fisting techniques to inner city 6 year olds


6 posted on 03/11/2022 8:23:02 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Passing the HUGE bills into law with no reading of
them is much like what we see when the electoral college
meets to sign off on the state’s election results. They
just sign their name, approving, with no reading, math,
digging...automatically “because it’s their job”.

Robots, there to perform a task; no accountability, no integrity.


7 posted on 03/11/2022 8:27:13 AM PST by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistence by very wise men. A document unlike any other.)
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To: Rummyfan

And some Republicans voted for it, freaking establishment republican morons.


8 posted on 03/11/2022 8:29:59 AM PST by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Rummyfan

Are the RCV provisions from HR1 in there...?


9 posted on 03/11/2022 8:31:03 AM PST by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Rummyfan

This is complete insanity. Total. Everyone in Washington is named Nero.


10 posted on 03/11/2022 8:31:56 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Rummyfan

If no one read it, how do they know it’s not $3 trillion?


11 posted on 03/11/2022 8:32:30 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: Rummyfan

The $13.6 billion aid package to Ukraine is just the DNC & RINOs feeding their presonal piggy bank.


12 posted on 03/11/2022 8:33:56 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: nesnah

*Only about 70,000,000 Americans actually pay a net income tax each year, so about $215,000 a piece.*

That’s where we’re coming up short. People can’t see it but they can see the big uptick in gas prices. Dollars vs. thousands.

I think we’ll take back the house. We may have to take out a few of our own Senators to prove a point, meaning no Senate majority for us. That means scotus is in jeopardy but we’re ‘still’ at 6-3.


13 posted on 03/11/2022 8:37:44 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (S)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s where the Dems but all the stuff they couldn’t get passed


14 posted on 03/11/2022 8:40:17 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: SaxxonWoods

The money is probably the ONLY thing they all discussed!


15 posted on 03/11/2022 8:46:16 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: Rummyfan

Given that the Democrats didn’t give the Senate any time to review and discuss as the last stop gap spending bill expired today.

Choice 1 was to shut down the government until the bill could be reviewed or pass it. The senate obviously chose to pass it. Although it looks like there was a substantial swing in votes between the support for the defense bill and the domestic spending bill.

Now that it’s passed, the Republicans need to go through it with a fine tooth comb and point out all the crap that is in it. And hold the Democrats accountable.


16 posted on 03/11/2022 8:46:48 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: PeterPrinciple
But who wrote it? ...

The fine artistry of el Deep State.

17 posted on 03/11/2022 8:53:00 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Rummyfan

Currently, average inflation rate in Western Europe is 4% with France as low as 3.3% and Canada at 5.1% while US inflation rate is 7.9%. All 3 Western entities are exposed to the same economic global externals such as escalating oil prices and the covid menace. Escalating government spending in the US over the last 12 months has broken all records everywhere when we spent 6.8 trillion with a record 2.7 trillion annual deficit. While Western Europe was spending 70% relative to GDP we were spending 135% relative to GDP last year. Pretty much tells the story of why our inflation rate is double the Western European inflation rate.To paraphrase a bit: It’s the spending, stupid.


18 posted on 03/11/2022 8:56:01 AM PST by chuckee ( )
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To: Rummyfan

Didn’t Congress stop reading spending bills YEARS ago??

Why do we, the people allow these criminals to pass these things in the dead of night?

We’ve just been accepting this obvious corruption as the norm..


19 posted on 03/11/2022 9:14:10 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: nesnah

“…about $215,000 a piece.“

That’s about FOUR years of our total income here..


20 posted on 03/11/2022 9:16:18 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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