Is there even one half-sane Democrat that will stand up and denounce the fiscal atrocity of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending bill? Is there not one single patriotic Democrat in the entire country who will speak out? The silence is deafening.
The House Democrats are now rallying behind a budget resolution that calls for a $6.1 trillion single-year budget. When I first came to Washington in 1985, President Ronald Reagan passed the first $1 trillion budget bill. We were all aghast. Now, we are spending six times that amount, and no one blinks an eye.
Even worse, the Biden budget plan would authorize just under $4 trillion of borrowing in one single year. That is more debt than was allowed, adjusting for inflation, to finance the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War I and World War II.
The Democrats plan to use “reconciliation” instructions, which allow the Senate to pass spending and tax bills with only 51 votes in the Senate. They don’t need a single Republican vote. Call it the “unity” budget. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Democrats have earned the right to bankrupt the country because Republicans do it.
This bill has very little to do with coronavirus relief. Pelosi has inserted the $15 minimum wage, a $400 billion blue-state bailout to fund leaky government pension programs in states such as California and Illinois, and $130 billion for school funding, even though schools have been closed for 10 months. There is also a $400 per week bonus unemployment benefit that will pay most unemployed workers more money to stay home than go back to work and, of course, billions for the New York subway paid for people living in Nebraska.
We are told this is “urgent” to stave off an economic “crisis.” Wait. Congress had already authorized $3.7 trillion in spending in five previous bills last year. The House Budget Republicans reported that there is still $1 trillion of unspent money from those bills. What ever happened to eating your dinner before you get your dessert?
One reason for the mad rush is that Democrats fear the crisis is disappearing right before our eyes. Coronavirus cases and deaths have plunged by more than one-third in the last three weeks, and the vaccine is getting injected into 1 million arms a day, thanks to former President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed program. As for the economy, the Wall Street Journal reported that the housing market is red-hot, with prices up 12% over last year. The manufacturing index has hit a five-year high. Unemployment claims are falling, and there are 6.5 million open jobs in America. The stock market has surged to new all-time highs, and in the last quarter, private sector GDP was up a bullish 4.3%.
Does this sound like a crisis? Perhaps in blue-state America, where governors such as Andrew Cuomo of New York and J.B. Pritzker of Illinois have foolishly shuttered their businesses and schools. But the solution to getting back to the rapid growth of the first three Trump years is to open up the state economies and speed up vaccine distributions.
Those solutions cost almost nothing. Instead, Biden insists that the lesson he learned from the failed $830 billion “shovel ready” bill back in 2009 was, “We spent too little.” So, he’s doubling down. Don’t worry about the children and the grandchildren, who will be saddled with the Chinese and Saudi debt repayment. The New Republic recently advised Biden to “spend like crazy.”
So, “crazy” is what we are getting. Crazy like driving 80 miles per hour down the highway drunk and wearing a blindfold. So, I repeat: Will some Democrat somewhere please stand up and tell the drunk-with-power Democrats to stop?
I am terrified the answer is no.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. He is the co-author of “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive the American Economy.” To find out more about Stephen Moore and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Venezuela here we come and the clueless sheep have their heads buried in their phones.
More like they are Celebrating, cause they don’t CARE what happens…
How do you change a country’s culture—
change it from a capitalist system to a government controlled socialistic society.
Here is the playbook,
and so far, the socialist Democrats appear to be making a lot of progress.
1. Healthcare — Control healthcare and you control the people
2. Welfare — Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
3. Education — Take control of what people read and listen to —
take control of what children and young people learn in schools and colleges.
4. Religion — Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools
5. Class Warfare — Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
6. Debt — Increase the debt to an unsustainable level.
7. Gun Control — Remove the ability for the people to defend themselves from the Government. (“Socialist Democrat Party State”)
8. Poverty — Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will keep socialists in power if they are providing everything for them to live.
Does this look like the “Socialist Democrat Party State”
that the people supposably voted for??
Biden beleives the American people are as corrupt and greedy as himself, and can be purchased at the price of borrowed money that their children will be held accountable to pay off. Not all would use their government status acquired in trust in elections by the American people to corruptly purchase power and wealth in unearned bribes and pandering to THE PEOPLE of guaranteed higher wages, free college education, COVID emergency checks or guranteed income checks that were not earned by the sweat of the brow but the sale of elections and the ability to self-govern and live free to chose and speak and worship as you pleased. His is not an America our founders invisioned, or one that will last long once the Socialist and high tech Internationalists prevail and the takeover is completed. Call it the great American giveaway where your freedoms are given away in the beguilements of promises never to be kept, purchased in the arena of fear, with short term cash that will lead to long term enslavement.
The Demonrats have now begun the real shovel ready jobs, everyone will be
digging us out of the mountain of debt piled on working tax payers…….William
In answer to this..
The answer is not just no, but HELL NO.
Every intelligent person in America knows the democrats are about spending other peoples money and blaming it on everyone else. The ones who are willing able and accepting of being owed by politicians are waiting for their lives to get better now that demons are in charge of our country. Good luck with that!
There is no budget. That’s the problem.
True, even under trump, all we saw was continuing resolutions..
This will be known as the 2020 Misery Budget. Unemployment will skyrocket, businesses will fail and close, and the economy will tank; meanwhile, newly-minted “Takers” will demand more freebies that Producers cannot pay for, and vote reliably for the mismanagement to continue indefinitely.
This show is over. It was over when Dems outsmarted Republicans and soundly beat them–if you don’t have a star player and you don’t have a game plan, just change the rules and let the ignorant masses vote. We should have seen it coming. Me?–just gimme my Wuhan, China virus stimulus check and my wife her unemployment benefits and we’ll use the dough to stock up on ammo.