Posted on 03/24/2020 4:57:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Global Pandemic Go To Waste The coronavirus relief bill congressional Democrats are pushing has all the hallmarks of Obamas 2009 stimulus package: welfare funding disguised as relief.
So it turns out the real reason congressional Democrats blocked a Senate coronavirus spending bill on Sunday wasnt because they were concerned it favored corporations over individuals or because they wanted more direct aid to families and small businesses. It was because they want to use this crisis as pretext for passing a bunch of Democratic policies that have nothing to do with the pandemic.
On Monday, right around the time Senate Democrats blocked a $2 trillion coronavirus spending bill for the second time in as many days, we found out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, fresh from a weeklong vacation, has her own bill, a 1,400-page monstrosity chock full of mandates, regulations, and nonsensical federal programs that leftists would enact if they were king for a day.
Many of the provisions in Pelosis bill have no discernable relation to the coronavirus pandemic, much less helping families and small businesses facing economic ruin. There are sections mandating risk-limiting audits of election results, early voting, same-day voter registration, mandatory reporting for federal agencies on their use of minority-owned banks, new rules for the retirement plans of community newspapers, and even a section requiring airlines to provide passengers information about greenhouse gas emissions from flights they took. The list goes on, like a parody of Democratic governance.
But its not a parody, its an old Democratic tacticespecially for Pelosi. Remember President Obamas $830 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009? It was supposed to fund those now-infamous shovel-ready infrastructure projects but in the end mostly went to federal welfare programs like Medicaid, food stamps, and extended unemployment insurance.
That wasnt an accident. Pelosi was speaker of the House back then, and she helped transform the stimulus into a massive welfare bill, arguing that injecting billions of dollars into food stamps and unemployment insurance would somehow generate economic activity. It didnt, which is one reason the recovery under Obama was so sluggishand why he was so thoroughly panned last month for bragging the stimulus paved the way for more than a decade of economic growth.
Seen in that light, its hard not to think Democrats have been angling to pull this same trick since the coronavirus crisis broke. Over the weekend, The Hill reported on a conference call held Thursday with hundreds of Democratic lawmakers that laid out a sweeping wish list of provisions to include the relief package. Majority Whip James Clyburn reportedly said, This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.
And theres nothing like a pandemic-caused economic crash to justify giving unions unprecedented collective bargaining power, increasing fuel-emission standards for airlines, and expanding wind and solar tax credits.
This isnt to say that Senate Republicans had a really great relief bill or that they struck just the right balance between bailing out corporations and helping families and small businesses. The package Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed certainly had its share of non-coronavirus bailouts for major industries, and we have yet to see much appetite in Washington for creative, targeted solutions to the coming solvency crisis along the lines my colleague Christopher Bedford has laid out in these pages.
But the aid package Senate Democrats torpedoedsupposedly in favor of Pelosis progressive grab-bag of a billwould have at least helped stanch the bleeding in many major industries, providing half a trillion dollars in loans and another $350 billion to help small businesses pay their employees, as well as giving some direct relief to American families.
At this point, its unclear if any help will be coming from Washington. Congressional Democrats apparently think their Republican counterparts would rather accept Pelosis catch-all bailout than come up empty-handed.
Maybe theyre right. Democrats proved back in 2009 that theyre far better at exploiting a crisis than Republicans are. In the coming days, expect Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer trot out the same arguments used to pass the Obama stimulus.
Then as now, their relief bill, if they get it, wont actually stimulate economic recovery. If anything, it will be a drag on recovery, just as the 2009 stimulus was. But for Pelosi and the Democrats, this isnt really about the economy or even the coronavirus. A crisis is a crisis, after all, and they never let one go to waste.
Democrats are holding public health hostage. Leverage. I’ll rescue you, if you give me your soul, your liberty, your future.
I’ll put out the fire if you sell me your house, Otherwise, let it burn.
This is what happens when one relies on the government. The government owns your ass.
Pelosi; dusting off the old playbook/wish list.
The country needs visuals. Wheel in some dying c.v. patients
pleading for their checks...
LOL, the media would be all over that if the parties were reversed.
When this disgusting wretched bitch dies, Im going to piss on her grave.
Its long pass lamp post time for this succubus.
She deserves it.
Trump should also give the phone number of the HOR and have calls FLOODING into it protesting Pelosi and her DEMONRAT’s additions to the bill.
And it would be great if Freepers called too!
Unfortunately, I don’t have Pelousy’s office number, but maybe someone could post it.
Just SOOOO tired of the CRAP pouring out of the Demonrat party!!!!
Go for the throat...
Thanks. BUMP!
And Chairman Xi Jinpeng virus was spread around by a group of psychopathic narcissists of useful idiots and fellow travelers we call millennials - wooooohooo spring break lets have some corna. Not feeling so bullet proof now are they now.
It caused her no harm. It also did not harm the DEM party outlook for holding power.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The press will spin this up as a GOP-caused issue, unwillingness to compromise during a time of disaster.
They are at the better end of the “hockey stick” graph. Bringing anything home to their senior loved ones could be a problem. Maybe not. Let’s speed up that inheritance timeline kids. Besides, “useless eaters” waste valuable resources.
Watch out for those STDs.
Just called my Congress critter’s office and left a message expressing my outrage over the Demonrat’s additions to the bill, and telling him I am ashamed that I ever was a Demonrat (as a teenage admirer of JFK).
Know I’m only one voice, but it helped to do SOMETHING. And the recording said they were experiencing a high call volume. Hope that’s good news.
And, if anyone else wants to call, the HOR number is
1-202-224-3121.
Just called the HOR to express my outrage over the Demonrat’s additions to the bill.
The HOR number is:
1-202-224-3121
Oops, thought my previous post didn’t go through.
But really encourage fellow Freepers to call the HOR and let them know how DISGUSTING it is to see Demonrats “playing politics” with this crisis!
Get with the program. The Mother of All Flus happens every two years, a pure coinkydink that it is in even (read:Election) years. Ya get a get out of death flu jail card for 2021.
Go full San Fran on Nan and leave a dump
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