Before we get into how they are wasting our taxpayer money on their latest spending boondoggle, consider the following realities:
- The Federal government debt is approaching a whopping $30 TRILLION, or about $900,000 for every man, woman and child in the country, i.e. everyone one of us would have to pay out almost a million dollars EACH to cover the existing debt that grows bigger everyday.
- About 18 million people face the real possibility of going hungry today.
- There are anywhere between 500,000 to 600,000 homeless Americans anytime throughout the United States.
- There are probably millions of drug addict Americans in need of addiction treatment in the country today.
- Millions of people have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic and are facing financial disaster.
- Despite the suffering just listed, the latest bill sets aside $1.5 million for the Seaway International Bridge, which connects New York state to Canada. Oh, yeah, Senate leader Chuck Schumer happens to represent New York state.
- $50 million for “family planning” non profit organizations.
- $852 million for AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Vista, and the National Senior Service Corps – the Corporation for National and Community Service – civic volunteer agencies in addition to their current year budget allocations which for AmeriCorps is $1.1 billion.
- There is $470 million in the bill to double the budgets of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities.
- Which raises the bigger question, what is the Institute of Museum and Library services, is it actually needed, and why does it merit a doubling of its budget when Americans are hungry and homeless?
- There is $128.5 billion to fund K-12 education but that money will not be dispensed until 2022 and will be spent every year afterwards until 2028, well after the pandemic is over which raises the question: why is it in a 2021 pandemic relief bill?
- Another $1.5 billion for perennial money losing AMTRAK, a loser organization for years which has lost $392 million of the past three years despite getting a $5 billion taxpayer subsidy, i.e. the perfect example of throwing good money after bad and which has nothing to do with pandemic relief.
- Of the $1.9 TRILLION of spending in covid relief the bill, only $825 billion is for covid relief.
- The other $1 TRILLION or so is for more expansion of government bureaucracies and national debt.
As Washington politicians continue to prove, never let a good chance to raise spending for favored friends and entities even if you have to lie and say it is for suffering Americans hit hard by the pandemic. So, another TRILLION dollars spent on mostly useless government organizations and programs, another TRILLION dollars added to the national debt. Consider how bad Washington has been in controlling spending over the past dozen years:
- The national debt was $10 TRILLION in 2008, i.e. it took Washington politicians over 200 years to accumulate $10 TRILLION in debt.
- In the eight years that Obama was President, the national debt almost doubled to $19.6 TRILLION.
- In other words, Obama’s Presidency ran up almost as much debt as every previous Presidential administration COMBINED.
- By 2020, the debt had increased another $7 TRILLION in just four years.
- In other words, in only four years Washington added enough debt to be equal to about 70% of the TOTAL debt every Presidency before Obama had run up.
- In just a few months into 2021, the debt is up about another $4.4 TRILLION as Washington spends on two covid relief bills, both of which were laden with non-essential non-covid, and non-necessary Federal spending.
And yet Washington uses the air cover excuse of suffering Americans to add more and more unnecessary debt to the country’s future. Disgusting and despicable are not strong enough words to describe their idiocy, greed, and ignorance.
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