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Can America Survive Biden’s “Big Deal”?

Joe Biden

&NewLine;<p>Presidents who are considered among our greatest win their place in history primarily by winning wars or making huge cultural changes&period;&nbsp&semi; George Washington – besides being our first President – won the Revolutionary War&period;&nbsp&semi; Lincoln the Civil War&period;&nbsp&semi; Wilson and FDR are known for both winning wars and making dramatic social changes&period;&nbsp&semi; Lyndon Johnson managed to salvage his reputation after losing a war by making dramatic social changes&period;&nbsp&semi; Obama also lost wars of sorts but brought about fundamental changes in our healthcare delivery systems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>One should recall that then-Vice President Biden – in a stage whisper – declared Obamacare to be a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deal&period;”&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>That may have been a momentary breach of protocol&period; But it may have also revealed one of Biden’s internal driving forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Democrats love &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deals” because they want a BIG f-ing government for them to run&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>There is every indication that Biden wants to go down as another President Roosevelt &lpar;not Teddy&rpar; and President Johnson &lpar;not Andrew&rpar; &&num;8212&semi; as a President who fundamentally changes the nature and economics of America with programs that are – to use his term &&num;8212&semi; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deals&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But the big deals of FDR and Johnson pale compared to what Biden has in mind&period;  Roosevelt and Johnson lived at a time when people considered billions of dollars huge amounts of money&period;  This came at a time when the entire National Debt was less that what we now pay in debt service &lpar;interest&rpar; each year&period;  Biden Democrats seem to view billions as rounding errors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Under Biden’s leadership&comma; Democrats quickly passed a &dollar;1&period;9 trillion stimulus&comma; relief&comma; welfare&comma; goodies package&period; <&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It was not necessary&period;  One might think that would have been enough of a blow to the budget&period; Enough to push the accelerator on inflation&comma; and enough of a burden on the American taxpayer&period;  But that apparently still fell short of Biden’s concept of a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deal&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Both sides of the political divide understand that America’s infrastructure needs rebuilding&period;&nbsp&semi; And as long as you believe that fixing local bridges and building tertiary treatment plants is somehow the unique role of the FEDERAL government&comma; then another congressional big spending package is in the offing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>While responsible Republican legislators could not stop the first round of the Democrats’ fiscal insanity&comma; they could try to keep the cost of the infrastructure bill within the bounds of marginally outrageous spending&period;&nbsp&semi; We are actually talking about merely billions of dollars &&num;8212&semi; &dollar;579 billion and counting&period;&nbsp&semi; Fiscal restraint in infrastructure spending&comma; however&comma; has been at least marginally successful because of the filibuster&period;&nbsp&semi; It gave Republicans some leverage&period;&nbsp&semi; Imagine what it would have cost if the radical leftwing Democrats had been able to get rid of the filibuster&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Weeell … after two rounds of reckless spending in Washington&comma; Biden &amp&semi; Co&period; left their biggest &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deal” for last&period;&nbsp&semi; And if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer can prevent a few Democrat legislators – just one in the Senate and 3 or 4 in the House &&num;8212&semi; from taking responsible action by voting against the behemoth so-call &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;human infrastructure bill&comma;” we just might stop – or at least slow down – the Biden spending spree&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Biden’s boldness is in the fact that after already spending too much money on the first two phases of his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deal&comma;” the third installment is off the financial radar&period;  That will be in the neighborhood of &dollar;3-plus trillion dollars according to the White House&period;  And because of economic accounting shenanigans&comma; the real figure will be north of &dollar;5 trillion dollars&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" id&equals;"h-to-the-extent-that-biden-legacy-big-f-ing-deal-has-support-among-the-public-it-is-due-to-two-things">To the extent that Biden legacy &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deal” has support among the public&comma; it is due to two things&period;  <&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>There are greedy people who do not give a damn about the country of the future generations as long as they get &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;theirs” – which is really &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ours&period;”  And those who just cannot comprehend the real meaning of trillions of dollars and the concomitant grab for more power for the folks in Washington&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And if you think all this money will alleviate poverty&comma; bring millions of children out of poverty&comma; and make our segregated inner-cities islands of prosperity&comma; you have forgotten how many times in the past that Cempty promise was made&period;&nbsp&semi; You need to recall Johnson’s War on Poverty&period;&nbsp&semi; After trillions of dollars invested in that bogus program over the years&comma; the only casualties of the War on Poverty have been the poor huddled masses currently dodging bullets when they go out to the store&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>America has been slowly sliding down the slippery slope of financial disaster&period; And with it an incremental loss of our personal freedoms and the rewards of our personal labors&period;  Biden may push America to a point beyond which we can no longer recover from the political and economic disaster&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>FDR has his New Deal&comma; President Truman had the Fair Deal and Biden will go down in history for his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deal&period;” <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big f-ing deal&comma;” Democrats get the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;big” and the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;deal” – and we the people get the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;f-ing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>So&comma; there &OpenCurlyQuote;tis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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