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Biden’s Crazy Spending Bill

&NewLine;<p>On the heels of the massive &dollar;1&period;9 trillion stimulus&comma; relief&comma; virus promotion&comma; welfare bill&comma; President Biden and his congressional delegation proposed a massive combination so-called infrastructure bill that created a totally new concept &&num;8212&semi; human infrastructure&period; The latter portion was merely another effort to get more folks hooked on progressive give-away programs&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>I was kind of hoping that human infrastructure meant that Uncle Sam would pay for a hip replacement if I ever needed one&period;  Ooops&excl;  I forgot&period;  I am on Medicare so Uncle Sam will be picking up the tab for most of that&period;  My supplemental plan – for which I pay zero premium and have no idea who is paying it – will cover all the rest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The idea of putting some &dollar;6 trillion of spending &lpar;the conservative estimate&rpar; in one bill seemed a bit over ambitious&comma; to say the least&period;&nbsp&semi; Even some congressional Democrats choked on that one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It was decided – based on pressure from Republicans in Congress – that real honest-to-goodness infrastructure should be handled separate from the bag-of-goodies human infrastructure bill&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And so it was&period;&nbsp&semi; Maybe … or maybe not&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" id&equals;"h-re-connecting-the-legislation"><strong>Re-connecting the legislation<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The radical left-wingers in the Democratic Party have prevailed on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to not pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill until after the Senate approves the &dollar;4 trillion so-called human infrastructure bill – essentially breaking the deal to handle them separately with the bipartisan bill moving through Congress first&period;&nbsp&semi; Once again&comma; Pelosi has shown her contempt of personal integrity and bipartisanship&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>The economics of insane spending in Washington<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>While there is a lot of debate over the various Biden big spending bills&comma; we need to understand the overarching economic realities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Officially&comma; the Biden administration is calling for the spending of &dollar;7-plus trillion dollars in its first six months in office – and that is if you believe the official numbers&period;&nbsp&semi; If you do&comma; you are very foolish&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>There is an inviolate rule in government spending&period;&nbsp&semi; Estimated future expenditures will far exceed the initial estimate – and the anticipated revenues to cover the cost will fall far short of the estimate&period;&nbsp&semi; Ergo&comma; more borrowing&period;&nbsp&semi; Greater National Debt&period;&nbsp&semi; Some economists already estimate that the cost of the three Biden legislative packages will exceed &dollar;10 trillion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>To get an idea of how much money &dollar;10 trillion really is … if we spend one dollar every day since the Big Bang launched our universe&comma; we would only have reached the &dollar;5 trillion dollar mark today&period;&nbsp&semi; It would take another 14 billion years to spend what Biden &amp&semi; Co&period; proposes to spend in six months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">If we gave away that &dollar;10 trillion dollars to every man&comma; woman and child in America&comma; we would all be getting a check for more than &dollar;30&comma;000 each&period;  <&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And keep in mind that Biden&&num;8217&semi;s all NEW spending bill goes over the top of the &dollar;4&period;8 trillion annual federal budget for 2020 – with the biggest expenditures being Social Security and … INTEREST ON THE DEBT&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Much of that Biden money will be borrowed&period;  America is currently borrowing more than 40 percent of the cost of the federal government every year&period;  That means that we are placing an enormous economic burden on our children&comma; grandchildren and even great grandchildren&period;  We are destroying their economic future to satisfy our insatiable desires&period;  There is now more obnoxious example of taxation without representation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Biden expenditures are being passed and proposed despite the fact that the December 2020 stimulus package poured excessive money into the economy – kicking off our current inflation&period;  In addition&comma; there are still &dollar;1 trillion dollars from past legislation that the government has not yet spent&period;  This will put even more money into an economy that is already drowning in liquidity&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Jerome Powell&comma; Chairman of the Federal Reserve has already admitted that he underestimated the inflationary impact from the flow of money into the economy – and that inflation is likely be worse than they recently projected&period;&nbsp&semi; It is already worse – and will get worser&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>Why all that spending&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Democrat strategy of big spending is very simple&period;&nbsp&semi; It is to make more and more of us dependent on government money&period;&nbsp&semi; And that translates to more votes … more power … for the party that will provide that money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The problem is not the money that is supposed to help the poor – although that is part of it&period;  But most of those trillions upon trillions of dollars are not for the poor&period;  They are for the middle class and the elite&period;  It goes to academic institutions&comma; civic groups&comma; corporations and unions run by highly compensated executives&period;  Universities and professors thrive on government grants&period;  Government jobs are union jobs&period; This cuts out the more than 90 percent of the American contractors and workers who are not members of unions&period;  The money flows to other government entities – states&comma; cities&comma; school districts&period;  Millionaires like Al Sharpton have been the benefactors of government money – and he is by far not the only one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Democrats see the federal treasury as a partisan bank that is the foundation of their political power&period;&nbsp&semi; That is why all the excessive spending&period;&nbsp&semi; As Benjamin Franklin once said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When the&nbsp&semi;<em>people<&sol;em>&nbsp&semi;find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He also responded to a question as to what form of government they created&period;&nbsp&semi; He replied&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A Republic&comma; if you can keep it&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Franklin’s pessimism was not unwarranted&period;&nbsp&semi; His worse fears are being played out today&period;&nbsp&semi; The only remaining question is whether America has the will and resolve to end this downward economic spiral leading to an inevitable disaster&period; It will be inflation for us and economic collapse for out progeny&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>So&comma; there &OpenCurlyQuote;tis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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