Posted on 08/03/2021 4:50:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Just seven weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Among the largest spending bills in history, it was passed without the vote of a single Republican.
The plan sent direct payments of up to $1,400 to most Americans, extended a $300 per week unemployment insurance boost until Sept. 6 and expanded the child tax credit for a year. It also put $350 billion into state, local and tribal relief.
This weekend, a bipartisan group of senators crafted a $1 trillion measure to repair and expand the nation's roads, bridges, ports, airports and broadband. Last week, this trillion-dollar infrastructure plan got a green light from 17 Republican senators, including Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Boasted Biden: "The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal is the largest infrastructure bill in a century. It will grow the economy, create good-paying jobs, and set America on a path to win the future."
Up next is a $3.5 trillion measure to remake America, which is also to be enacted without GOP support via a process called "reconciliation," which enables the Senate to pass measures with a simple majority.
This $3.5 trillion measure would expand social and environmental programs, extend the reach of education and health care, tax the rich and take on the challenge of the century -- climate change.
Among programs funded are universal prekindergarten for all 3- and 4-year-olds, two years of free community college, clean energy mandates for utilities and lower prescription drug prices. Medicare benefits would be expanded and amnesty extended to millions of illegal migrants.
All that is needed for its enactment into law is a Democrat majority in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House, the votes of the 50 Democratic senators and the signature of Biden.
After effecting passage of his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, if Biden gets the $1 trillion infrastructure proposal and the $3.5 trillion package, he will have enlarged federal spending by $6 trillion.
This would constitute the greatest leap forward toward socialism of any American president, with Biden's only rivals being previous record-holders Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s' New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s.
If Biden succeeds in getting it all, this would not only be a quantum leap toward European-style socialism. It would cross a divide for America, from which history teaches us there is no return.
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money," said Sen. Everett Dirksen in the 1960s, when he was leading a badly outmanned Republican minority in the Senate after the Barry Goldwater defeat.
Today, we talk not about billions but about trillions, and that $6 trillion in spending Biden is reaching for translates into more than six thousand billion dollars.
As of today, however, neither the infrastructure bill nor the $3.5 trillion omnibus bill is a done deal, with the former looking more probable than the latter. But if both are passed, they would create new records and new realities for the U.S. government.
The federal debt would exceed the U.S. economy for the first time since World War II. The deficits for this year and last, roughly $3 trillion in each year, already exceed any past deficits since World War II
Passage of the $3.5 trillion omnibus bill would constitute a quantum leap in the number of Americans dependent on the federal government for the necessities of life.
It would increase America's ratio of tax consumers to taxpayers.
It would be tantamount to an admission of belief that the real engine of economic growth in America, the truly indispensable provider upon whom an ever-expanding share of the population of the nation depend for food, rent, health care, education and cash income, is the government of the United States, not the American free market system.
As for the Republican Party, the conservative party of lower taxes, balanced budgets and free market solutions to social problems, the fiscal debate will be over in a way it has never been before.
Passage of that $3.5 trillion omnibus bill would represent the triumph of Great Society liberalism over Reaganite conservatism.
In his first inaugural address, President Ronald Reagan declared that government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.
In his State of the Union address in 1996, President Bill Clinton seemed to concede the triumph of Reaganism over liberalism and socialism:
"We know big government does not have all the answers. We know there's not a program for every problem. We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means.
"The era of big government is over."
In 2021, Biden and his party are saying: Clinton was wrong to concede Reaganism its victory. When there is a big crisis in the country, FDR was right: Big government is the solution.
If the terrain looks unfamiliar, that is because we are crossing a new continental divide. We are entering Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez country.
Republicans agree to this crap without ONE of them demanding the border be closed as a requirement
Or demanding a beautiful wall from Brownsville to San Diego.
Pass your rural skills onto your children, because they will need them for the inevitable collapse.
When Trump was elected in 2016 the Republicans had control of all three branches of government. What did they accomplish? President Trump tried and got little support or help.
Now look what the left has accomplished in less than a year with control of two branches.
I think we’ve been betrayed by the Republican Party. Fakes.
The ramifications of what the left is doing now will be disastrous. They will not allow themselves to be unseated by elections.
We are no longer the land of the free and home of the brave. The truly frustrating part of all of this is that we saw it coming and did not stop it. We hoped the Republicans would keep their promises and really fight for us.
Betrayed.
America’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ Into Socialism
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Translated from the Chinese: ‘Great Leap Backward’ Into Socialism
To be followed immediately by America’s ‘Cultural De-evolution’ and the descent into ‘Mindless Madness’.
Invest today in nicely framed portraits of Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, Karl Marx and and a beaming Jowls Biden - place them prominently on the walls where everyone can see them and instantly recognize your undying loyalty and fidelity to the Great Leaders and Great Thinkers of our time. Hurry, best the rush now!
True. Trump had all three branches but did not have 60 Senate seats nor any real support from the “we-be” sector. Chuck Schumer & Co filibustered 314 times during the Trump Administration. This is the reason the Dems want to eliminate the filibuster.
“I think we’ve been betrayed by the Republican Party.”
It’s a fact. The GOP provides three functions, none of which are good for America. The first and primary mission of the GOP is to increase the wealth of it’s members. Second function is to advance the interests of their donors. The last function is to provide the illusion of an opposition party.
The size of government is decided by voters.
Best bet is to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself … like my associate in the printing business who is loving life even as his business has declined 75% since the COVID fiasco began. He collected every penny available to him through bailouts and paycheck protection money, then reduced all his full-time staff to part-timers so he could keep the business running without paying health insurance premiums.
What makes this all so comical is that he’s now more profitable than he’s ever been in his 35+ years in the printing business.
And no one will remind Biden of the 2009 Recovery Act he and his boss were so proud of - the one that Biden was in charge of supervising...Where IS THAT MONEY? What was accomplished other than lining the pockets of donors? There’s a serious case of amnesia in the Congress and the public.
“”The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. Developed in response to the Great Recession, the primary objective of this federal statute was to save existing jobs and create new ones as soon as possible. Other objectives were to provide temporary relief programs for those most affected by the recession and invest in infrastructure, education, health, and renewable energy.””
Welcome to camp democrat indeed.
Media approved
Obama explained all that... He said “I guess the jobs weren’t as ‘shovel-ready’ as we thought.”
‘oopsie’ I guess.
There goes $4 TRILLION dollars!
For now.
He’s retiring in a couple of years and doesn’t GAF anymore.
From 2016 until 2020 the Republican Party fought President Trump tooth and toenail. From 2020 until the present , August 3, 2021 The Republican Party is fighting President Trump with all their might. And indirectly the American People. The Republican Party hates , well they more than hate. They despise. They despise the people who comprise their voting base more than the Democrats despise us. They [The Republicans] despise us instead of the Democrats.
Don’t forget that GWB had control of both Houses and didn’t veto anything the first few years he was President. He brought this era of big spending.
As did Obamacare - but when “Republicans” were in a position to fix it, they proved too scared of the public’s reaction to losing free stuff to do what was right. They wouldn’t have opposed Biden’s bill even with House and Senate majorities - maybe they might have watered it down a bit so they could talk tough to the voters back home.
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