It would be helpful if the media would start calling the Democrats’ obscene spending proposals what they actually are, rather than giving them cute names like “relief bill” and “economic plan.”
It’s all welfare. Or, if you prefer, it’s “welfare on steroids.”
Axios reported last week that progressive Democrats in the House are scheming ways they can push the Biden White House — excuse me, the Biden-Harris White House — to propose a package that’s “substantially bigger” than the $3 trillion package currently rumored.
A new package would look more similar to the left-wing Sunrise Movement’s pipe dream for $1 trillion in spending each year for a decade.
Republicans opposed the ridiculous $2 trillion welfare package (sometimes referred to as “COVID-19 relief”) that Democrats passed through reconciliation earlier this month. There’s obviously no way they would support more of that, let alone one that costs five times as much.
Does the Make-A-Wish Foundation offer any guidance on how to turn down wild-eyed requests gracefully?
President Joe Biden and Democrats hype up these proposals by calling them “job-creation bills,” “infrastructure spending,” and “economic packages.” That’s never what they are. Only a fraction of the $2 trillion package just passed into law goes toward pandemic measures, including the added federal unemployment benefits and food stamp extensions made necessary by the lockdowns and restrictions on businesses in Democratic cities and states.
The bill was otherwise chock-full of goodies for liberals who just want to see everything become free, or rather, taxpayer-funded. Look no further than the new direct payments to parents for each child in their custody that was included in the “relief” package.
Biden tried to explain the new giveaway this week, saying, “If you have two children, $7,200 will be paid on a monthly basis.” If he is accurate, that’s significantly more than the national median household income.
This program is supposed to be temporary (so were the lockdowns). Naturally, Democrats will want to extend it. And when the next election comes around, they’ll accuse Republicans who oppose the extension of being anti-mother.
Democrats have done this with every piece of COVID-19 legislation. What should be a fairly easy process of helping people hurt by the pandemic becomes their opportunity to lure more people into government dependency or pass a bevy of unrelated, counterproductive economic legislation, as when Democrats tried to shove a minimum wage increase into the last pandemic spending plan.
The next “economic package” Democrats bring up in Congress will function much the same way. The Axios report said liberals are looking for “substantial investment in social welfare, including expansion of the child tax credit, universal pre-kindergarten, free community college and other measures.”
Of course. We used to talk in billions. Now, thanks to the Democrats’ perpetual pandemic, we talk in trillions.
For Democrats, your money is no object.
