Di Leo: Buying Votes, Class by Class

Illinois Review ^ | February 22, AD 2024 | John F Di Leo

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The Biden-Harris regime, consistent with its record of daily lawbreaking, has just illegally canceled another $1.2 billion in student loan debt owed by about 150,000 borrowers whose individual loans were about $12,000 each.

This is just the latest, on top of three years of other incremental student loan cancellations, totaling about $138 billion in unpaid student loan debt so far, owed by almost four million voters, some of which is still tied up in court, but the regime’s actions have severely jeopardized the government’s ability to ever collect, even if these illegal acts are properly overturned.

In some states where election law is still enforced, it is illegal for a political candidate to give voters a box lunch, a bottle of booze, or a crisp $20 bill in exchange for their votes. As indeed it should be.

But this criminal gang goes back to the well every time their polling dips, to buy support with massive, illegitimate debt cancellation like this, robbing the federal treasury just to shore up their reelection odds.

A republic can only be as legitimate as its elections are honest. And when a politician pays voters for their votes, whether with his own money or with the voters’ own neighbors’ money, he turns the nation’s election into a colossal fraud.

Do these voters care? Do they even notice? Are they aware of the philosophy behind this issue?

Some might think that, all things considered, while selling one’s vote for a $10 box lunch or a $20 bill might be a lousy deal, selling a vote for 10 or 20 thousand dollars in loan forgiveness might be worthwhile – from his own perspective, at least.

But they would be wrong – at least in this case – because the damage done by this regime, not only to America and the world at large, but even to these very former college students individually, will definitely cost them and their families far more than the mere thousands they think they’re getting for their crime.

Consider:

The Biden-Harris regime has turned the automobile industry upside down, forcing the mass manufacture of largely unaffordable niche vehicles – the battery-operated car or truck – almost doubling the cost of normal cars at the same time. Even the entry level vehicles of a decade ago are unaffordable to the lower middle class today, all because of Biden-Harris regime regulations and actions.

If you bought a car during this presidential term, it likely cost over $12,000 more than it should have, thanks to these destructive policies. This “forgiveness” of student loans of $12,000 and under is at best a wash, and when you consider the interest rates on auto loans these days, that one kick in the wallet alone is costing you more than you’re getting back in student loan forgiveness. You’d have done much better keeping the student loan and buying your new car at Trump administration prices.

But that’s not the only price that the Biden-Harris crowd has caused to skyrocket.

The Biden-Harris regime has also accelerated the errant process of decommissioning working power plants and replacing them with nonworking forms of energy production. From coast to coast, we have seen an explosion of coal and nuclear power plant closures, as Chinese solar panels and Chinese windmills have quickly blanketed the landscape. These scam engines don’t produce anywhere near the energy that oil, gas, coal and nuclear can, so the result has been a crippling increase in energy pricing – not to mention frequent general power shortages – for both personal and business use.

It’s already expensive to run a factory or maintain a home in the United States; this double digit increase in the cost of heat and power is more than just noticeable; it’s a severe pain point for households and a dealbreaker for all energy-intensive manufacturing.

The Biden-Harris regime’s specific war on petroleum has caused transportation rates in particular to jump. This aspect of energy policy, more than any other single issue, has driven up the prices of all purchased goods, but especially food, since the food industry is so dependent on such energy-intensive processes as refrigeration, cooking, transportation and warehouse storage. Why has your food budget increased by thirty or forty percent – or more – in just three years? Because the Biden-Harris regime’s regulatory attacks on energy have actually been direct attacks on the nation’s food supply.

Finally, the Democratic Party has been pushing massive taxpayer-funded stimulus checks, non-infrastructure ‘infrastructure bills,’ and other such outrageous, wasteful spending for years, but the past four years have been off the charts. This unprecedented overspending by government – by definition – inflates the amount of currency in circulation, meaning that the currency is devalued proportionately.

In other words, you have a lower standard of living today – despite perhaps being paid more in salary or bonus at your job – because today’s dollars are worth so much less than the dollars of four years ago.

It’s always difficult to estimate how much the cost of living increases from year to year, because of differences between red states and blue states, between cities and rural areas, between different careers and spending habits.

But it is generally agreed that the average American family needs about $12,000 to $13,000 per year more today to afford the same standard of living it enjoyed just three years ago.

How about that. Even the people specifically being paid off to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are losing out on this deal. Maybe they’re not losing out as much as the rest of us, but they’re still losing.

The only way to win is to reject their checks, their debt forgiveness, and all their other empty promises and scams – to finally reject their bread and circuses once and for all, and vote for responsible conservative leadership again.

November 2024 can’t come too soon.

Copyright 2024 John F. Di Leo

John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. Once a County Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, after serving as president of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009. Follow John F. Di Leo on Facebook, Twitter, Gettr or TruthSocial.

Also an actor in Chicagoland’s community theatre circuit, John will be playing “Old Joe” Boyd in the Gaslight Players production of the musical “Damn Yankees,” only on Friday, March 1 and Friday, March 8, 2024 at St. Stephen Protomartyr in Des Plaines, Illinois.

A collection of John’s Illinois Review articles about vote fraud, “The Tales of Little Pavel,” and his 2021 political satirical discourses about current events, “Evening Soup with Basement Joe,” Volumes One, Two, and Three, are available in either paperback or eBook, only on Amazon.

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