Posted on 07/14/2021 8:19:28 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The price of Republicans losing those two Georgia Senate seats in January was always going to be steep, and late Tuesday Democrats presented America with the bill: $4.1 trillion. That’s how much in new taxes and spending President Biden, Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi hope to ram through Congress with the narrowest majorities in decades...
Don’t believe the spin that this is a compromise from the $6 trillion that Mr. Sanders floated some weeks ago. That was a feint to make the final number appear more moderate. This would be the largest spending increase in U.S. history, and a huge increase in the size and scope of government. It would lift federal spending as a share of GDP to more than 25% from the modern norm of 20% to 21% or so. Democrats are going for broke—literally.
“Every major program that President Biden has asked us for is funded in a robust way. And we are making some additions to that,” crowed Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, standing next to Mr. Sanders. “Most important, something that Senator Sanders has led, and convinced America is so important, which is a robust expansion of Medicare, including money for dental, vision and hearing.”
Mr. Schumer didn’t mention the cost of this new Medicare fillip: about $300 billion. And for a Medicare entitlement that the Trustees in their annual report say will already start to run out of money as early as 2024...
The details of the budget resolution will be filled out by Congressional committees, but that word “entitlement” is the key. The Sanders-Pelosi strategy—Mr. Biden is along for the ride—is to create several new programs that will expand automatically without an annual appropriation by Congress...
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Lord, we need another strategically placed lightning strike …
“ZAP!”
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Cloward-Piven on
Steroids,,,
Lutheran church in Minneapolis at the very moment when the AD 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted by 66.6% (yes, precisely that number!) to approve Ordaining practicing homosexuals and "blessing" their "unions"
If anybody had told me the filthy, disheveled bum with torn jeans and frazzled hair sleeping on a park bench in Burlington VT in 1979 would become a Senator, I’d have thought them nuts.
Kicked out of a hippy commune for being too lazy and now this rat bastard is the Senate Budget Chairman?
For the math-challenged, who are wondering what it will cost THEM (yes Virginia: you WILL pay the bill) here you go...
$4.1 trillion has a LOT of zeroes: eight of them --> 4,100,000,000,000
The United States population on July 14, 2021 was: 332,518,854
Divide one into the other and you get...
Oh yeah; this IS on top of all the OTHER things you having looming in your future - $28.5 TRILLION in national debt (You can do your own math by now)
And you folks in California have an additional $14,711 each.
https://usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
Have a nice day.
I looked for a 'robust' picture definition in the Democrat dictionary, but they were all listed as NSFW.
I count eleven zeroes. But your point is well taken.
I was told my new seeing eye dog could count!
He might be fine at counting. But have you checked to see if he needs glasses? A bad astigmatism could do that, you know.
Does that include the wetbacks? Or is that how many votees the Democrats need to win an election?
Maybe.
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