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Here is a great article about where the 900 Billion Covid bill really came from. And why it was so insane.

Most people think when they vote for a federal politician -a House or Senate representative- they are voting for a person who will go to Washington DC and write or enact legislation. This is the old-fashioned “schoolhouse rock” perspective based on decades past. There is not a single person in congress writing legislation or laws.

The article is worth your time to read, not matter how informed you are about the subject.

1 posted on 12/27/2020 11:06:21 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

I know it’s a pipe dream, but I’d like to see some journalist ask someone from Congress to explain how millions and millions of dollars for a study of sex problems in Pakistan benefits us.


2 posted on 12/27/2020 11:13:55 AM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Now that the Demoncrat$ are back in charge, Congre$$ i$ back to bu$ine$$ as u$ual.


3 posted on 12/27/2020 11:22:38 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Texas Fossil
Why on earth would a so called “covid relief” bill have plenty of pork for a terrorist country like Pakistan?
4 posted on 12/27/2020 11:28:13 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Texas Fossil

bump for later


8 posted on 12/27/2020 11:33:19 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Texas Fossil

Maybe congress should take a little time to watch these Secret Santa video’s to see who really needs the money, NOT Billions to foreigners.
AMERICANS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXBdSMjWnk


11 posted on 12/27/2020 11:38:45 AM PST by mowowie (Push 2 for deportation)
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To: Texas Fossil

$600*300M=$180Billion in a $900 Billion bill.

$2000*300M=$600Billion

Additional for small businesses.


12 posted on 12/27/2020 11:44:26 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Texas Fossil

It is not just the Covid relief bill, it is the entire US budget containing everything any Congresscritter asked for, if his vote was needed to pass it. That’s the way legislation works - you don’t knock my pet cause, I don’t know yours, and we both vote aye!


13 posted on 12/27/2020 11:44:55 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: Texas Fossil

Our great President Donald J Trump is certainly the only president in history that would ever get up there and start reading provisions out of a 6000 page bill !!

Provions in far away foreign lands. That has nothing to do with what the bill is for !!! He went on for like two or three minutes just reading these provisions
I can’t remember any president Certainly. or anybody except the house floor doing a stunt like this
I think it’s been highly embarrassing to Democrats and Republicans who live on this sort of “ writing free checks”

The district of criminals is a very very corrupt place


16 posted on 12/27/2020 11:56:37 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: Texas Fossil

I would like to know the following:

- the foreign indivuals that were responsible for the giveaways to each of those foreign countries.

- the politicians that they paid off to have it included in this monstrosity.

- who put the whole thing together


20 posted on 12/27/2020 12:34:39 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Texas Fossil; waterhill

Great article. Thanks for posting.......President Trump is the Great Disruptor......carry on Mr. President.


23 posted on 12/27/2020 12:56:07 PM PST by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Nice perspective on how things really work.


24 posted on 12/27/2020 1:05:54 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Texas Fossil

You can’t biden a kickback for yourself if you don’t fund foreign interests.


25 posted on 12/27/2020 1:17:52 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Texas Fossil

Just listening to the news on Canada’s CBC.

To hear them tell it, DJT is a real SOB for not giving people the money that CONGRESS already said they could have. From their telling, you came away with the impression - how can he be so mean??

He’s such a brute !


27 posted on 12/27/2020 2:41:12 PM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Texas Fossil
Recap:Corporations (special interest group) write the legislation. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.
33 posted on 12/27/2020 3:48:04 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Texas Fossil

Rage...watch this video Dan Bongino tweeted...hero...millions like this guy...

https://rumble.com/vc76dr-intense-restaurant-owner-blockades-health-inspectors-car-in-protest.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab


34 posted on 12/27/2020 3:51:31 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Take back our stolen republic or move to a cattle car of their choosing...)
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To: Texas Fossil

‘We The People’ are insignificant and annoying gnats to their business model.


35 posted on 12/27/2020 3:54:43 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Texas Fossil

Congress does not write laws or legislation, special interest groups do.


36 posted on 12/27/2020 3:58:22 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Texas Fossil

While all of this is happening the same outside groups who write the laws are providing money for the campaigns of the politicians they need to pass them.


37 posted on 12/27/2020 3:59:16 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Texas Fossil

The income of many long-term politicians on both Republican and Democrat sides of the aisle was completely disrupted by President Trump winning the election. That is one of the key reason why so many politicians retired immediately thereafter.


38 posted on 12/27/2020 4:04:41 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Texas Fossil

When you understand that any changes to this system will not be accepted by those who command power and affluence; when you accept their willingness to deploy government institutions around themselves in order to protect them from you; and when you realize they will use every system, including the ballot counting machines, to stop the American people from disrupting this corrupt system of self-aggrandizing elitism; you start to realize the diminished options for removing them from office…


41 posted on 12/27/2020 4:14:44 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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