Posted on 06/03/2021 3:31:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
During America's first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them.
They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into nursing homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable.
Their rules for prosecuting those who violated social distancing, sheltering in place, mask wearing or violent protesting often hinged on political grounds. Their spending measures on "infrastructure" and "health care" were excuses to lard up redistributive entitlements.
Conservatives moaned that left-wing agendas were at work beneath the pretenses of saving us from the pandemic. And the giddy left bragged that it was true.
After the 2008 financial meltdown, Barack Obama spoke of "fundamentally transforming" the country. Now he's back, weighing in on the panic-driven, multitrillion-dollar spending that has pushed America's debt to nearly $30 trillion.
"There's a teachable moment about maybe this whole deficit hawk thing of the federal government," Obama said in a recent interview with Ezra Klein of The New York Times. "Just being nervous about our debt 30 years from now, while millions of people are suffering -- maybe that's not a smart way to think about our economics."
He apparently means that borrowing tons of money in a pandemic and not worrying too much about paying it back is a new, better approach to economics.
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We’ve lost what the Founders gave us. This is a whole new country, and it’s not a good one.
The republic is dead.
Just pray this is an interregnum.
IF this coup and insurrection of 11/03 is NOT resolved ...it is license henceforth for ANYONE to steal an American election...and lets them know that it will be permitted as long as they spread the lootings around sufficiently.
Its basically a similar situation into which Rome devolved following the death of the Roman Republic
We used to have a term for that way of thinking. It may not be politically correct, but it fits the situation AND that statement to a T!
"N(word) rich!"
Always read Victor Davis Hanson to the last sentence.
I’ve said the same several times recently. The reaction is always the same - a flash of shock and then a slow nod of affirmation.
The left seized upon the calamity to embark on a massive wealth redistribution plan that hurt far more than it ever could help. Paying for it will cost us all - dearly.
“Act In Haste, Repent At Leisure”
Every business including nail salons remained open in my area of TX. The city council promoted tourism and “they came” in droves. Tourists didn’t wear masks or social distanced. Fancy why we had such large numbers of cases.
Khruschev told us...
The left took full advantage of the epidemic to turn this country hard left. They put rags on our faces so we could not communicate. They forbade us to assemble in groups. They forced us to stay home under penalty of the law.
While we cowered in fear, they didn’t give a xxxx about the disease. They were busy starting up the riots/occupations/autonomous zones and banging the drum about the USA being fundamentally racist so they could take our money and give it to people who hate us.
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