Posted on 09/27/2022 6:16:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. --Mark Twain
Since inflation is currently the major issue for the American people, the Democrat Congress, with much fanfare and the usual self-congratulation, passed the “Inflation Reduction Act.”
Since, however, one is here talking about Congress, one should not assume that anything is what it is claimed to be. No sooner was the bill passed than former Secretary of State and current “climate envoy” John Kerry, one of the D-Mass bunch, who purchased his massive seven bedroom carbon footprint mansion in the fake liberal “sanctuary destination” of Martha’s Vineyard in 2017, slipped up and told the truth to the International Energy Agency's Global Clean Energy Action Forum: “I'm not sure how much it has to do with inflation, but that's O.K.”
A University of Pennsylvania Wharton School study agrees, concluding that it has “low confidence the legislation will have any impact on inflation.”
The reason this deception is “O.K.” with Kerry is that the real purpose of the bill is to spend 375 billion taxpayer dollars on the Left’s “green new deal” agenda to “tackle” climate change and double the number of IRS agents to harass the remaining fraction of Americans that still have a job or small business.
The reason the bill was not titled “The Green New Deal Bill” is that the peasants would not have approved of spending 375 billion of their tax dollars on the economy-destroying left-wing religious cult’s climate agenda or doubling the number of IRS agents to harass them. It was therefore necessary to pretend that Congress was actually passing a bill designed to improve the peasants’ lives. Thus, the “Green New Deal and IRS Harassment Expansion” bill was renamed the “Inflation Reduction Act” in the hopes that enough of the “deplorables” would be fooled
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Why can’t congress critters be forced to work in a gulag to repay the debt that they incur if they spend too much? That would put an end to it.
We’ll just keep voting and pretend it matters.
Shouldn’t the gulag be inclusive of Democrat voters? I mean, all this Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) stuff sort of requires that to be equitable. Plus, Democrat voters are inherently diverse.
Very true. Is that from Mark Twain ?:)
...and true to form the (con)gressional scam worked like a charm.
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Inside the DC beltway in general and Congress in particular are many full of contempt for the American people.
The beltway chokes the air and reason out of people’s brains. Guess that’s where the zombies are.
They’ll do as they please.
After all, what will WE do about it?
As usual, - nothing. Except to go on social media and gripe a little..
But they KNOW that we’ll do nothing - whatever they do.
I’m surprised that they didn’t flat out call it their “Green New Deal” bill just the same. They are completely unaccountable now and they know it.
Yes, because it's worked so well in the past. Revolts aren't won by votes. It's time we recognize that.
It has been so obvious for many years how Congress (BOTH parties) feel about American people...They look at us as “little people, the unwashed, uneducated, unintelligent, peasant population only here to do for them and their bidding...
They are the “special people”, the ones who know better and, I believe, look at us as “necessary trash” that they sadly need....
That’s actually a very good idea.
A balanced budget amendment with emergency provisions would do the trick under Article V. Congress will never do it themselves, so it will have to be done under Article V. Rick Santorum is leading the pack on this. .
As it stands now, there are zero standards for holding Members of Congress accountable, not even the ballot box as that is wildly compromised especially via counterfeit voter rolls (where the root problem exists).
To paraphrase the old Soviet joke:
We pretend to vote, and they pretend we elected them.
We’ve got a printed, fiat currency, issued by a “Federal Reserve” which for this period in history, the world must use.
So given this practically unlimited money (and debt) the social-engineers, statists and leftists in Fed.gov are having a huge party.
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Two thoughts on this, if I may:
(1) Its not just the congress that has contempt for the American people. Its also the massive administrative state that is arrogant and dismissive of the people its supposed to be serving. They need to be reigned in, downsized and re-focused.
(2) With respect to traditional freedom-loving American patriots and how easily they are manipulated, that is unlikely to change going forward as demographics and culture in this country have profoundly changed. The people are now more interested in freebies than they are in freedom.
one of the reasons that they get away with it
is because the LEFT is propped up by the LEFTIST media
if people want to do something besides gripe on social media
cut the cable tv
this will kneecap the LEFTIST media
they need the cable subscriber fees to survive
it will also force the cable tv companies to offer a la carte
they have the technology but the major content providers will not let them get rid of the basic bundle
which includes the LEFTIST media
the LEFTIST media in the basic bundle gets paid whether you watch them or not
cut the cable tv to defund the LEFTIST media
IMO, Once congress-people were allowed to do whatever they please is when that system went all to crap.
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