Posted on 12/22/2020 6:18:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Late Monday night, in a huge, secretive rush, Congress passed a combined virus relief and omnibus spending bill that’s almost 6,000 pages long and, in less than a year, will spend $2.3 trillion that does not exist.
The bill’s length alone is enough to justify a second American Revolution. It should have been a simple bill: Checks for Americans in need (with provisions to prevent the French Laundry and its ilk from ever receiving another penny of taxpayer money) and basic funding for basic government. I’m thinking maybe 100 pages, max.
The length tells is that the bill is a long list of boondoggles that the monoparty corruptocrats in D.C. hope no one really notices. Although the bill wasn’t ready for the public to read until Monday afternoon, both houses of Congress passed it on and “up or down” vote within a few hours. The lone holdouts in the Senate were Marsha Blackburn (R. Tenn.), Ted Cruz (R. Tex.), Ron Johnson (R. Wis.), Mike Lee (R. Utah), Ron Paul (R. Ky.), and Rick Scott (R. Fl.).
Rand Paul gave a powerful speech, but his Senate colleagues want only to make nice with their new Democrat monoparty overlords. I urge you to listen because it spells out what Congress is doing to America:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
WHAT’s IN THIS BILL:
* For Americans hurt by the Democrats’ (and some Republicans’) sustained attacks on the American economy, there will be a $600 stimulus check for people earning less than $75,000 per year or married couples earning less than $150,000. I may be speaking out of turn here, but I don’t think $600 will make a big difference to people in the upper brackets, while a larger check would make a huge difference to people in the lower brackets.
* There’ll be an extra $600 for each dependent child under 18. People getting unemployment insurance will get a $300 per week extension. There’ll be $286 billion in loans rent and staff (money we’ve already seen went to rich, connected businesses, not small, hurting businesses). There’ll be $69 billion in testing and vaccine money.
* Lastly, there’s $82 billion for colleges and schools. I strongly object. If there was one good thing about the Wuhan virus lockdowns, it was that they seemed to be destroying colleges and universities. These institutions no longer educate; they indoctrinate. They are Ground Zero for every foul idea destroying America, including anti-Americanism, anti-constitutionalism, racial hatred, gender madness, and the insane monetary policy this bill reflects, which says that the government can indefinitely print money while simultaneously destroying America’s wealth.
* That remaining $1.4 trillion is going to things such as a climate advisory program, $10 million taxpayer dollars for gender programs in Pakistan, an investigation into the 1908 Springfield Race Riot, horseracing integrity (including performance-enhancing drugs), funding for museum exhibits about women, $700 million for Sudan, $135 million for Burma, $85.5 million to Cambodia, $1.4 billion for Asia Reassurance, $130 million for Nepal, $193 million for cars for federal HIV/AIDS workers stationed abroad, funds to stop teenagers from drinking and hooking up, $40 million for the Kennedy Center (which already got $25 million but fired its employees anyway), hundreds of millions to Palestinians, and that’s just the smallest part of it.
Elected officials want us to trust them about things and tell us we had a fair election, puleeeze.
I agree 100%. The Swamp does not fear We the People . . . they should. . . .
I may have to retire early if only to quit feeding the beast.
This is the reason the American people have lost faith. Corrupt politicians. Only taking care of their interests. Not the American people. But remember they still want our vote
Exactly, this is why an outsider like Trump smoked the establishment GOPers in the primary, they still don't get it.
Disgusting waste of our tax dollars Re the OUS funding and the non average person with the pet projects. This is the essence of the pols. Make us pay and then spread those $$$ to unrelated areas that put to
Our vote would never happen
I’m for helping but would prefer a clean list of designated Re Epix TD that like the United Way I can spell out who the money goes too.
Auto correct. Receipients
Haven’t We, the people had enough yet???
Corruption isn’t going to fix itself. Ever.
We must make them...It is time, fellow Patriots. We are all we have left.
President Trump, LET IT BURN. VETO THIS BILL.
Ha, they don't need votes anymore. Now they 'manufacture' them based on a pre-determined winner, and probably have been doing it this way for a long time....
Do you really think your vote counts? Think again....
Oh none of our votes count anymore.
Sadly Trump is already given up on everything he said he believed in. He has said he would sign this legislation when it reached his desk. He has agreed to sign legislation to block the border wall in areas along the border, he has agreed to sign legislation that gives financial aid to illegal aliens instead of deporting them, and so much more. This is a total cave-in sell out, sadly not his first, But thankfully may be his last.
Start with Kemp and Ducey. Do it now. Don't wait until the next election to primary them. Get the signatures now.
Recall every RINO in legislatures that allowed the massive fraud to stand.
Purge the RINOs. That's where we can start.
They have no understanding of us patriots. They think we will forget their treason and move on.
Wipe that smug smile from their faces and RECALL them.
All you need to know is that a sizeable percentage of the money that is sent overseas winds up back in the Rat and Repsquish pockets. There is NO possible reason on Earth why else they would be hellbent on doing it. It’s called money laundering, which is illegal, except when THEY do it.
Trump does not appear to have what it takes to win reelection, to fight for reelection. So hopefully this is among the last sellouts he does before he leaves office, and hopefully we can start getting our so-called Republican senators and congressmen to actually vote no on this type of legislation. Think about it, McConnell is asking Republicans to on voice vote approve this, so as far as we know and conclude, they all agree to this sell-out. I guess they all have a piece of pork in the mix.
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