Posted on 01/19/2022 8:19:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told a gathering of America’s mayors on Wednesday that the Biden administration’s coronavirus relief bill was like a vaccine preventing catastrophic economic damage that could have returned the nation to the financial woes seen at the beginning of the pandemic.
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan “acted like a vaccine for the American economy, protecting our recovery from the possibility of new variants,” Yellen said at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 90th winter meeting in downtown Washington.
“The protection wasn’t complete, but it was very strong,” Yellen said. “It prevented communities from suffering the most severe economic effects of omicron and delta.”
The mayors’ conference, headed by Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez, is focused on American Rescue Plan resources for cities, equitable pandemic recovery, the reduction of gun violence and homelessness and combating climate change, among other issues.
Promoting Biden’s social and environmental plan, which remains stalled in Congress, Yellen said, “while we don’t know the final form this will take, it will revolutionize how we care for children in this country, invest in climate change and overhaul the international tax system to ensure corporations pay their fair share.”
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Works as well as the “covid vaccines”.....
Covid didn;t crush the economy.
Government crushed the economy.
ROTFLMAO. Janet is a little loopy.
Works as well as the “covid vaccines”.....
Why we need a “like” button!
Good metaphor on their part.
It reveals their subconscious desires. They got a ‘referendum’ from barley half the country, but they want to force the self-destructive programs on everyone. No opting out.
That's precisely what we're worried about.
And it doesn’t work, either................
More like a hit of Heroin. Crave that free gubmint money.
A Fair Share Law...and Atlas Shrugged.
Stopped reading this suck up tripe right there... Seen at the beginning? Ha! We are just now getting into the DISASTER that is FauXi/Xiden pandemic devastation.
ANY accomplished liar or scam artist will tell you that in order to be successful your spiel has to have some element of truth in it, OR it has to delve down into innate greed so overwhelming all common sense gets thrown out the window.
Here is neither. A leftist sycophant grandma-esque harridan too greedy to go on off to the sunset preaching pure nonsense...
Lost muppet Old Yellen should return to her studio.
Janet, that’s just the metaphor you should NOT have used if you want to assure the people. Haven’t you been paying attention? A growing number of folks don’t see the COVID ‘vaccines’ as a solution.
She’s right. It caused a lot of trouble and had no beneficial effect in the end.
She’s a “Nancy”. A Marxist “Karen”.
Beat me to it.
She is evil.
I know Janet Yellen personally. Back when she was part of the President Clinton crew, she wasn’t crazy. Yes, she was from UC Berkeley but was part of the (then sane) Haas School of Business. Definitely a centrist.
I only mention that I know her to tell you that these comments and others that she has made since becoming Secy Treasury are borderline or full-out bat-droppings crazy.
There is no coexistence with modern American liberals, any more than you could coexist with a den of pit vipers in your own house. It’s either you or the vipers, eradication of the threat or your own demise.
The liberals have to be battled and completely defeated and removed from effective power. And then they have to be defeated over and over after that.
Janet you clueless imbecile, VACCINE IS A DIRTY WORD.
Just like the vaccine, doesn’t work even if you try it three times.
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