Posted on 07/27/2021 5:08:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
I have never bought the conspiracy theories that COVID-19 was a diabolical political plot to undermine the country. But what is apparent with each passing week is that the virus has been the springboard for the left's agenda to transform America in a way that Sen. Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore or Rachel Maddow could have never imagined.
Without COVID-19, President Joe Biden would never have been elected, of course. So, for the left, the virus defeated former President Donald Trump. COVID-19 is now the gateway to the left's utopian agenda of multi-trillion-dollar climate policies, hyper-regulation of the economy, the rebirth of the welfare state and a radical redistribution of income.
Under Trump policies, we had one of the most robust financial and economic expansions on record, especially regarding minority advancement and historic reductions in poverty. The entitlement state was in retreat as income growth and record job openings pushed millions of people out of the welfare state into work. If the left truly cared about the plight of the poor, they would have celebrated. Instead, the results showing tax cuts, deregulation and laissez-faire policies work made liberals miserable.
COVID-19 made the rebirth of big government possible. Last year, with Trump still in the White House, Congress spent $6 trillion, much of it (such as the $600 a week bonus unemployment benefits) wastefully and ineffectively. But it was emergency spending.
The National Bureau of Economic Research recently declared the recession ended in April of 2020, and the recovery has been accelerating thanks to the vaccine.
We would be aggressively cutting government spending in a rational world, as we did after victories in World War II and the Cold War.
Instead, the left has leveraged COVID-19 fears to call for a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill on top of the $1.9 trillion spent in March on welfare programs and now $4.1 trillion in public works programs; labor union protections; green new deal subsidies; Medicare and Medicaid and food stamps expansions; and bailouts of Amtrak, urban transit and schools. The public schools in many blue states were shut down for a year, yet taxpayers have to give the teachers unions $100 billion. Explain that one.
The Congressional Budget Office calculates all of this will add $20 trillion of new debt spending over a decade – and that is with a massive tax increase.
COVID-19 has somehow given a new license to even the nuttiest leftist ideas. So, we have Democrats speeding forward with a plan to raise tax rates to more than 50 percent and implement welfare benefits that can pay families more than $100,000 in annualized wage equivalent benefits. The government could hit and remain above 50 percent of GDP, matching the European socialist nations.
Spending programs that were once scoffed at with price tags in the billions of dollars are now sailing through with trillion-dollar budgets. Moreover, COVID-19 has unleashed Modern Monetary Theory, meaning that the federal government apparently has a no-limit credit card.
COVID-19 is all but over, and the toll has been awful. Life expectancy fell in 2020 for the first time since World War II. Tragically, the "cure" – or should I say, the carnage – of the Biden post-COVID-19 progressive experiment might, in the end, be far more devastating and long-lasting than the terrible disease itself.
Duh.
“Duh” to the author, not you.
Some people are so slow that they actually have to be in the shower (gas chamber) before they wake up to the reality.
The destruction is not here. The destruction seems mostly in New York and other such formerly American city states.
Here there is a difference but life has pretty much normalized. The cities ruled by tyrants are still suffering. One can only hope they will never recover. The destroyed city states are the source of dangerous antiAmerican ideology
It does make one wonder at what point the WWII era German Jews realized they were going to be executed by the state.
“In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” “1984”
The Wuhan flu has replaced war as the elites tool of choice, but the purpose has not changed.
I guess the whole "Climate Change" war was getting stale.
Good article. We seem to have forgotten about the debt. It’s something conservatives used to care about, but how often does it get mentioned in conservative media these days?
This is scary.
European socialism was enabled and underwritten by America’s massive postwar economic engine supporting their policies.
Europe is now at Thatcher’s economic endpoint of socialism where they have run out of other peoples money.
The US is in economic decline as we offshore our industry which drove the economic engine and we pursue our far more destructive version of socialism via welfare programs which destroy peoples work ethic and family structure and instill ghetto culture
Once America falls, everyone else falls too.
Trump was turning things around but Biden has destroyed everything Trump worked for in less than a year.
As long as a dem is in the white house or anywhere for that matter, there will NEVER BE AN END TO THIS COVID-19. If they could they would lock down everyone forever and wear double or triple masks even in our own homes. There are no words to express how much I hate this administration and dems in general.
You’re on to something. Hopefully the idiot mayors/governors indeed ruin the big ugly leftist cities. It’s going to take something like that to defeat all the national public school disinformation propaganda inflicted on Americans for the past 50 years. I say YEAH, BABY!
Wrong to blame WuhanFlu. It was a tool. Whether it escaped deliberately or by design, it was used to destroy. Since the vaccines will not stop (by design) re-transmission and masks are bloody worthless for a respiratory virus it will continue to be used to destroy.
This is scary.
European socialism was enabled and underwritten by America’s massive postwar economic engine supporting their policies.
Europe is now at Thatcher’s economic endpoint of socialism where they have run out of other peoples money.
The US is in economic decline as we offshore our industry which drove the economic engine and we pursue our far more destructive version of socialism via welfare programs which destroy peoples work ethic and family structure and instill ghetto culture
Once America falls, everyone else falls too.
Trump was turning things around but Biden has destroyed everything Trump worked for in less than a year.
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