Shocking Number of House Republicans Vote for Massive 'America Last' Spending Package

townhall.com ^ | 5/11/2022 0700 hrs edt | Leah Barkoukis

[TribalPrincess2U]

Thank You!

[Rusty0604]

Good comment.

[Mariner]

Neocons are joyous.

[lgjhn23]

The DC swamp is deep and deceptive.
They promote a 2-party system to keep the great hordes of the unwashed masses in a calm stupor, but the reality of it all is: except for a small handful, there’s only ONE party; The UniParty.
Once one realizes that, everything they say/do etc. all falls right into place.
Sure, they all wear different hats, have different slogans, spew different lies to their unwashed constituencies, but the bottom line is...they ALL have the same agenda and it sure as heck isn’t to MAGA by any definition.
What these turds can’t steal thru taxes, they steal thru inflation. Then, launder it thru the Ukraine for themselves. They’re all like bug-eyed, greedy, little piglets going for the sow’s teats. Greed is a terrible vice.

[higgmeister]

Democrats would have a huge issue for the fall, and their claim that they helped Ukraine win the war, would be hard for republicans to refute.

Do you think that is an accomplishment?   It's an aberration.

When you think about it, they want to create another Viet Nam without the noble claim of containing Communism.   The only goal with this hairy horse crap is to stick it in Putin's eye.   That is not foreign relations, it's wag-the-dog politics.

[ohioman]

I knew the Globalist POS (Mike Turner of Ohio) would vote for this. I use to work at the same company with that turd 20 years ago and he is your run of the mill Country Club GOP RINO. Ohio needs more GOP like Jim Jordan.

[adorno]

Do you think that is an accomplishment? It's an aberration.

For the democrats, that would be a huge accomplishment, since they've always been weak on defense issues and on foreign affairs. You can count on it that they would turn a Ukraine victory into a huge issue for them.

Aberration might be correct, insofar as the fact that democrats have always been weak in defense and foreign affairs.

And, Ukraine is nowhere close to being another Vietnam, since we're not directly involved with our troops or air power or naval ships. We might be involved by proxy, but again, that's not a Vietnam type scenario.

So, why exaggerate when the facts are obviously not like you put them or want them to be? That's a democrat-style type of narrative.

[PIF]

Chip Roy (R-TX) for Speaker....
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How good is he at herding cats?

[Howie66]

I live in Texas and my Representative voted against this shitshow. Why? Because he’s NOT an Assistant DemocRAT. Too bad that John “Wayne” Cornyn isn’t able to make that claim.

[ronnie raygun]

We need a great purge

[gleeaikin]

Forty billion is a large chunk of money, an important question is how this money helps our country as well as Ukraine. Below is a link with prices for some of the larger efforts. The money is supposed to be roughly evenly divided between military and humanitarian assistance.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/house-passes-40-billion-ukraine-aid-package

The new measure includes $6 billion to arm and train Ukrainian forces, $8.7 billion to restore American stores of weapons shipped to Ukraine and $3.9 billion for U.S. forces deployed to the area.

There’s also $8.8 billion in economic support for Ukraine, $4 billion to help Ukraine and allies finance arms and equipment purchases and $900 million for housing, education and other help for Ukrainian refugees in the U.S.

Earlier I had written about ways in which the money spent might help people and businesses in the US. A lot will depend on how this $40 billion is designed to be spent. A lot of money spent in the US on armaments will provide jobs, taxes, and spending in the US. Businesses will make money.
Money for humanitarian supplies may also be spent in the US with the same benefits. Money spent in Europe will enhance the economies over there which can result in an increase in trade with the US. Money spent in Ukraine will no doubt result in a lot of contracts to buy US goods to rebuild that country. It would be good to take a closer look at that bill’s details and do a cost/benefit analysis on who will profit from this investment. Maybe a think tank will do that very thing.

[adorno]

Forty billion is a large chunk of money, an important question is how this money helps our country as well as Ukraine.

Just thinking long-term, it's better to stop the aggressors now than when that aggressor has had their way and goes out looking for more, because, somebody thought that perhaps the enemy is not going to be emboldened to use their victories as permission to expand on their ambitions. History teaches us that aggression, if allowed or not punished, leads to much bigger problems in the future.

Russia's aggression has lessons that China is looking to learn from. Same as what occurred that led to WW2.

[gleeaikin]

Hope China is learning Don’t Grab the Tarbabby.

[adorno]

Tarbabby?

Sorry, I'm culturally illiterate on that term. Care to explain?

[gleeaikin]

Tarbaby was a character in an Aesops fable. Look it up. Basically a bad guy in the story attacked the tarbaby which was covered in tar and stuck to it with unfortunate results. I forget the precise details, as I heard the story 70+ years ago.