US Coronavirus Spending Is About To Soar Past What America Spent To Defeat The Nazis In World War II

Citizens Journal ^ | 03/10/2021 | ANDREW TRUNSKY

[Kid Shelleen]

The House passed President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Wednesday afternoon, raising the price tag for federal government spending on coronavirus relief to $5.5 trillion.

The $1.9 trillion bill is just the latest that Congress has passed in the past year, adding to the unprecedented amount of money that is greater than the United States has spent on any previous national emergency in its history. The $5.5 trillion price tag is higher than the 2019 GDP of every country in the world except for the United States and China, and is more than the $4.1 trillion the U.S. spent on World War II if adjusted to today’s dollars.

[Secret Agent Man]

All this money is bailing out decades of failed democrat policies at the state and local levels.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Why aren’t we bombing China?

[Boogieman]

Well, let’s be honest, most of that “coronavirus” spending has little if anything to do with the coronavirus. It’s just an excuse to turn the “pork valve” all the way open.

[monkeyshine]

Exactly.

[Theoria]

Because, Hawley, Trump and Biden got your grandchildren to ‘pay’ reparations for the problems China created.

[PGR88]

China is only ancillary to our problems.

The problem’s origin, and solution, all lie within American politics itself.

[lerker]

Because China owns our pResident

[Sparky1776]

And Congress.

[Pollard]

Because, Hawley, Trump and Biden got your grandchildren to ‘pay’ reparations for the problems China created.

Haa?

[mrsmith]

It’s an amount beyond comprehension to be spent in such a small amount of time.
The effects, both good and bad, will be astounding.

[Gene Eric]

Except the young lives lost.

[Dalberg-Acton]

From the Heritage Foundation, 2014:

Every Baby Born Today Has a $39,500 Debt

[JimRed]

Less than 10% of it is COVID stimulus. The rest is unrelated spending.

[eyeamok]

and people thought we had inflation in the 70’s under Carter, you just wait!!

[palmer]

As I calculated this morning, we lost about 108 million man-months of employment and pricing that at a generous $4,000 a month (and ignoring the unemployment payments that partly replaced that incoming) that's $432 billion to replace those wages. Instead we're spending 6 trillion?

[I cannot think of a name]

Hate to bring this up but.....

Look at the people we had to fight World War II.

Look at the people we have today.

Even worse

Look at the leadership we had during World War II.

Look at the leadership we have today.

We’re lucky the whole thing has gone as good as it has.

[Kid Shelleen]

I think it is around 85K per person (220K per tax payer) depending on which source you use.

US Debt Clock