Vultures Circle on New Legislation: More Pork for the Dems

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Even when the focus is supposed to be on providing economic help to struggling Americans, Democrat legislators just cannot help themselves. Using taxpayer money like an unlimited credit card, greedy Dems are stuffing the newest coronavirus relief bill with trillions of dollars of “pork.” Every dollar they pour into their pet projects is a dollar taken away from citizens and small businesses who really need it. The vultures are circling to grab every bite they can.

Pelosi Pushing Pet Pork Projects

Unsurprisingly, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is right in the thick of things. The California Democrat is on an all-out lobbying blitz. She spends hours on the phone and in briefings, trying to build support for the ballooning bill.

Pelosi hopes to have the bill on the House floor by next week, but that is extremely unlikely. So much personal priority pork is attached, even senior Democrats don’t know what all is included. Some estimates put the final cost at up to $2 trillion.

Pelosi admits that she doesn’t care about the taxpayer bill at all. “How are you paying? No one asked that question with the $2 trillion tax cut.” She was referring to the Republican Party’s 2017 tax-reduction package.

What is Included in Pelosi’s Pork Package?

A coronavirus relief bill isn’t supposed to be a blank check that Democrats can use to pay for every item on their agendas. It is supposed to support small businesses and everyday Americans who are struggling while the economy remains largely closed.

Instead, Pelosi and other greedy Democrats want to use the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to treat this “kitchen sink” bill as a personal pork-laden wishlist. Included in the agenda:

  • $25 billion to the U.S. Postal Service;
  • $4 billion to non-profit museums and cultural institutions;
  • Elimination of the requirement that businesses receiving loans spend 75% of that money on payroll;
  • Funding for mail-in voting;
  • Increased and recurring stimulus payments;
  • Stimulus payments to illegal aliens;
  • Suspension of rent;
  • Money for individual state and local governments;
  • Student loan forgiveness.

I’m not concerned, frankly, about borrowing money by the trillions says Jerrold Nadler.

Ignoring the Cost

There are two major problems with the provisions of the bill. FIRST, many of these pork inclusions have nothing to do with helping average Americans or small businesses in financial crises because of COVID-19. SECOND, these proposals show no understanding of economic realities. Because they are so focused on their own pet projects, Democrats don’t even consider how they are going to pay for all of this.

For example, Democrat Jerrold Nadler, a State Representative from New York, says, “I think we do have to give money to private cultural institutions, and I’m not concerned, frankly, about borrowing money by the trillions.”

Contrast that statement with GOP sensibilities. Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, was more realistic when he said, “We think we ought to take a pause here, do a good job of evaluating what we’ve already done.”

 

 

4 COMMENTS

  1. Some of the most terrifying words ever spoken as president Reagan said were, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” It is most clear that the last thing a Progressive is here to do is help anyone but themselves and their cause – to fundamentally transform our government. As the Progressives’ mentor, Saul Alinsky said, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” The Democrat pork bomb they will submit is for only one purpose, and that is to do damage to this country. It will massively increase the national debt, weaken our currency, and cause inflation. It will be designed to make more people more dependent on government and destroy private sector small business – in aggregate the nation’s largest employer. It will contain massive bailouts of Democratic Party controlled states like Illinois, New York and California, where city and state governments have irresponsibly refused to control government spending and union pensions and illegally diverted tax funds for other purposes like road repair to out-of-control pensions. These MASSIVE cash wads cannot be spent, administrated, or accounted for in this short a time – they will be devoured by the most corrupt and disappear.

    We desperately need the Republicans to stand up and fight for our government and remove all the pork and bailout money that will be in this bill. Better yet, kill this bill, and replace it with a bill that redirects $1.5T, or all the pork and bailout money of the first $2T bill, to go to small business and COVID-19 related needs only.

  2. Does it bother anybody that Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the House is sitting at home waiting to be called back to work. And, Nancy will have a $2T+ bill waiting for them to vote on with NO debate, NO discussion, written by her staff with cherry-picked suggestions from her fellow Democrats. This bill may or may not even go through the appropriate committee, or it will be hand-waived through with little or no discussion/debate allowed. Where is the citizen represented in this situation? Nancy controls a majority of the Democrat Representatives by whether or not she supports/funds their reelection. The Democrat Representatives are responding to/representing Nancy and the Democratic Party – not their electorate. The Republican Representatives and the citizens they represent are being denied participation in this $2T pork bill. Our government and Constitution was not meant to give or allow one person, Nancy Pelosi, that much power!

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