Posted on 09/02/2022 9:18:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Americans are paying a hell of a lot for Joe Biden's spend-a-thon, in the form of inflation, which, at last glance, was costing American workers upwards of $5,000 in extra cash a year.
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, as Milton Friedman used to say, and sure enough, inflation started getting bad when a Democrat Congress passed and Joe Biden signed off on, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which was passed to supposedly help America recover from COVID.
Fox News's Tyler Olson did the job mainstream corporate journalists wouldn't do by checking up on how that was going:
What do an armored SWAT vehicle in Pittsburgh, "restorative justice" educational discipline in New York City, racial healing pop-ups in Minneapolis, and school vape detectors in Montgomery, Ala., have in common? They're all funded by federal taxpayers through the hastily-passed American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Democrats advanced through Congress on a party-line vote in early 2021.
The $1.9 trillion bill was framed as an emergency measure to help the United States dig out of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences.
But much money is going toward projects that are seemingly unrelated or barely related to the virus or the recovery from the pandemic. Technically, many such projects are permitted. But it is not how the package was sold.
Fox reported that huge sums of the cash hadn't even been spent yet, but the share that had been went to stuff like this:
Among the spending tenuously related to the pandemic, Minneapolis allocated $300,000 to, "Promote healing and positive activation in the Black community to build and implement a larger vision of an equitable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 and racial trauma. These pop-up style events will help address the need for healing and social cohesion."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which received $135 million from the plan, announced last October that it had allocated $87.8 million in ARP funds to "nearly 300 cultural and educational institutions to help them recover from the economic impact of the pandemic, retain and rehire workers, and reopen sites, facilities, and programs."
However, many of the institutions were awarded grants for projects that had little to do with addressing recovery efforts from the pandemic, according to research from American Crossroads shared with and verified by Fox News Digital.
For instance, $499,023 went to the University of Montana for multiple programs on racial justice, including a public lecture series on "racial justice, death and Indigenous knowledge."
Our Government is awash in our money. They could rebate everyone’s taxes for the last two years and still have too much money.
Translation: It is all going to unions and vote fraud.
Pork-barrel spending is still pork-barrel spending no matter what you call it.
There is no mainstream media.
They are all LEFT WING COMMUNIST HACKS.
VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT.
MAGA.
This is reminiscent of the “Pigford” funds that made it through Congress years ago under Obama with barely a groan from Republicans . Only a few lawmakers raised their voices. They were afraid of the Obama/Holder/Biden smear machine. Who wants to be called a racist? A billion dollars, possibly ballooning to 4.1 billion, floated out of the US Treasury to somewhere under the guidance of Eric Holder who was praised by Obama for taking the time to oversee the project.
Retribution (under any other name) for families of Black farmers who weren’t allowed to fill out a government-guaranteed loan application more than a half century before. Pigford I had already been distributed. A few Black farmers or their families thought they had been discriminated against. By the time it was done, 90,000 claimants wanted a piece of the retribution pie. Pigford II was for any person of color who had not been invited to apply for a farm loan. Imagine. Some called it the most un-investigated crime of Obama’s presidency.
Andrew Breitbart was livid. I still miss him.
Now the same thing has been happening under Biden. Just another name being used for another coverup. I hear Podesta will be in charge. I don’t know if that’s a joke or not. In your face, America.
Evidently, we the people, shut up and sit down when ordered.
Crony pay backs and pay offs.
We all knew that.
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