Posted on 12/24/2020 8:49:02 AM PST by blam
After the congressional passage of the 5,593 page COVID “stimulus” bill on Monday, President Trump shot the legislation back into the hands of congress demanding that the direct payments to Americans increase from $600 to $2,000 for individuals and $4,000 for couples.
The President also called for congress to amend the bill in order to cut out the “waste and unnecessary” items, a point that is being overlooked by the media and members of congress.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi responded quickly to Trump’s Tuesday night veto threat by whole heartedly agreeing with the idea of sending a larger sum of money to the American people with no mention of trimming any fat from the 20/80 slab of beef passed earlier in the week. (20 substance/80 fat).
As of writing, Pelosi has signaled that Democrats are only now waiting for the GOP to enter into agreement with the larger direct payments.
There was absolutely no way in political-hell that Trump would have signed the “stimulus bill” when received in its original condition. The bill has very little to do with stimulating the needs of the financially struggling public and mostly to do with serving foreign and domestic special interests. It would have been a signature on the dotted line of political suicide.
All Eyes on Thieves
Large omnibus legislation like this is par for the course with congress. What is interesting about this time around is that millions of people are watching and involved.
The details of the bill, which include billions of taxpayer dollars being sent to foreign governments, tens of millions for “gender studies” in middle east, and tax breaks for race horse owners, amongst other shameful waste, was enough to send the public into a rage, and understandably.
This is, as Rand Paul called it, the “Obama/Rahm Emanuel playbook. Specifically, the play that calls for “never letting a serious crisis go to waste.” Doing so would allow for a missed opportunity to redistribute wealth, commit fraud, or push the levers of tyranny.
Congress’s willingness to let the $900 billion spending bill slide through the bicameral body was a recital of the Obama/Emanuel play mentioned above. It was an exploit of the public’s vulnerable state caused by government lockdowns, mainstream media hysteria, and the virus itself.
The bribery payments inside are only wrapping paper on a flaming mountain of cacca that will send the hard earned incomes of the American worker over seas, in a time of crisis.
Stage Set For the UBI Sedation
Now that the stage is set for larger direct payments to the public, the test case is being made for the idea presented by former Goldman Sachs CFO, Marty Chavez, who recently said a form of universal basic income could be used to “stave of revolution” that will inevitably come as the wealth gap continues to increase.
“This is what I say to, you know, friends who you might call ‘oligarchs,’ right? Why it would make sense for everybody to have some baseline income and why we should all pay for it,” Chavez said.
(snip)
And nanzi ignored the other “issues”.
We are going to be in Venezuela territory in no time.
The Schadenfreude part of me is looking forward to watching BLM/Antifa/Precious Snowflakes starve.
Too bad we have to starve with them.
Every congresscritter that voted yes on this bill needs to have every reesidence listed, “just in case a storm of jewish lightning sweeps the land”.
The economy was attacked by the draconian lockdowns. Now they want everyone to take their debt-laden Scamdemic bucks as if it will make any difference after they have taken down small businesses, restaurants etc..and the resulting slaves will be left with the bill.
I for one would have no issues with a universal basic income as long as that is tied to the passage of the “Fair Tax” Just increase the “prebate” to the $1000 per month level for every US citizen over the age of 18. This $1000 would have to be assigned as the official poverty line (it is only slightly higher than that now) and all other government giveaway programs would be immediately terminated AFDC, Food stamps, WIC, HUD, Social Security and a myriad of other programs including of course all “minimum wage” requirements cause after all we have ENDED POVERTY once and for all resulting in the employees of those agencies needing to live on said $1000 per month until such time as they become useful for something. For the working it would mean they get to keep every penny they made and only pay taxes on what they buy. Much to their surprise the criminals in our society would also be paying their fair share of taxes as they purchased things for daily life. This also provides the opportunity to get the Fedzilla off our asses once and for all expiditing return to an actual constitutional government.
Payments to the People pacify them. You can see it on Twitter. Left and Right both enraged by the flows of billions overseas. ***BUT*** so long as they get "my $2,000" -- the anger magically goes away!
Galt's Gulch?
In Rand's vision, men like Reardon were against Socialism. In our world, the tech billionaires are all FOR it.
When we get past this chaos, guess who will have the privilege to reimburse the government for all these freebies.
Yes. First they get us dependent on DC, and then they march onward towards communism. A “universal basic income” IS one step before total communism, in which the government is the only employer and the only source of income.
Your children/grandchildren.
And most likely they'll be reimbursing the Chinese government.
“Yes. First they get us dependent on DC, and then they march onward towards communism. A “universal basic income” IS one step before total communism, in which the government is the only employer and the only source of income.”
But rather then communism there will be a totalitarian technocracy. Which is far, far more dangerous to liberty and freedom. Absolute complete control (including your body) over every second of every day over individuals. Communists could only dream of this type of tyranny.
“Government Digital Currency: Why You Should Be TERRIFIED!”
11/6/20
“Biometric smart cards and civic digital identity apps to redefine wallets”
11/16/20
“Digital travel credential one step closer with ICAO implementation model approval”
How about a plan that doesn’t destroy a contract tens of
millions of retired people lived by, through no fault of their
own.
You’re little plan would have me living on the street in
less than 45 days.
We are not capable of working at the level we did in our
formative years. For many retirees, it would be impossible
to work at all.
You conveniently lumped us in with people whose families
have been on welfare for generations. You limped us in
with illegal aliens on Section 8. You lumped us in with
a lot of other freeloaders.
WIC, AFDC, Food Stamps? Really?
That’s what a person on Social Security seems like to you?
It’s your take that all those other programs are going to
people who worked hard their whole lives and had money
confiscated from them with the promise it would come back
to them in their retirement?
Rework your plan, and in the next iteration don’t destroy
the lives of people who contributed to the economy for
decades.
Am on Social Security myself but I would take the reduction from what I get to the 1k to not have to pay taxes on my investments and SSA is one of the most massive bureaucracies there is.
Donate back yours. Not happening here...
The way to end it, is to introduce new plans to replace it.
Then over the next 45 years or so, you’ll see the number of
folks on it drop a lot faster than you would think.
22.5 years from now, people going on it would get 50% of
what they used to. A lot of people on it would have died.
In 22.5 years, it wouldn’t surprise me to see 50% as much
outlay as now.
45 years from now, nobody would be getting it, but even 30
years out, we’d seed 25% of the outlay we do now.
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