Just read the Sunday paper and found a full page ad telling us what a good job Joe Manchin did by voting for the stimulus package and giving us another $1400. We were to think that this legislation was all for us and Manchin made it possible. His vote was necessary and could have stopped it but he went against the wishes of his state and voted the way Shumer told him to. Joe doesn't represent us because he is a pawn of Chuck and Nancy. The article did not tell us about what else the bill provides and that is about 90% of the total amount of the 1.9 trillion made available. Yes the stimulus package is 10% for covid relief and 90% to buy future votes for the democratic party.
Part of the bill discriminates by race and ethnicity to give Black and Latino farmers a greater loan forgiveness than White farmers. At a time in this country when race has become on the forefront as a problem and just being born white makes you a racist because of your privilege our federal government had decided to separate us by race and ethnicity for handouts. It is unlawful to discriminate against race, color, religion or ethnicity for all of the citizens of this country and anyone that does can be prosecuted and fined or jailed but Congress and the President can break this law and think it a grand gesture.
Another part gives San Francisco a bailout because the local democratic government can't govern properly. The streets are rife with human feces and used needles and the homeless population is growing larger every day. We in West Virginia have to have our tax money used to pay their bills but we will get no bailout for our problems with infrastructure and pensions. New York state and city are, also, being bailed out from their complete mismanagement of budgets. Obama started their fall when he stopped the Wall Street bonuses of a million dollars as they were part of the poor economy. What he did not realize was that over half of those bonuses were taxes part of which supported both New York State and New York City. Neither tried to cut spending to compensate for the loss of tax dollars and just went into debt more and more every year. Now as taxes go up people leave to find a place to live that they can afford, West Virginian tax payers are on the hook to pay the New York debts now thanks to Joe.
Many other parts of the bill buy votes from unions by bailing out their pension plans even before they default which allows the union leadership to continue to support the democratic party with huge donations at election time. Of course if the dems can say they saved your pension they expect your vote. We are paying for this too. Aiding and abetting the influx of illegal aliens is a crime but the bill provides money for their health care and welfare. Instead of obeying the immigration laws they are paying people to disobey them with our tax payer money. Giving money to prisoners and other groups also has no effect on the problems of covid and the people that have lost their businesses. The adding of $300. to weekly unemployment benefits is wonderful for those that have lost their jobs but should have had an automatic stop when their jobs were restarted. Now many are making more on unemployment than at their regular jobs and are not returning when they become available. We are increasing the number of people that we pay not to work. Soon it will outnumber the people that do work and pay the bills and taxes. We are giving huge amounts of money to the arts when many that are employed in the arts are making millions. Supporting an opera house will not put food on anyone's table and while very nice to have it should not be the ordinary tax payer paying for it rather the people that buy tickets and enjoy the performances.
I could go on and on but when the next election comes all you will hear about is the stimulus money you received and how it was so important at the time. You will also see the increase in inflation some day because of it and it will probably put the inflation period of the Carter years to shame. It may take a while but we cannot ever pay back the debt that has been caused but our governments spending to just buy a few votes.
While the idea of a stimulus was to aid the recovery from the pandemic, most of the money from the stimulus will do nothing for the recovery but the most egregious part of the bill is what it does not do. There is not one dollar to help the homeless. There is not one dollar to rebuild the mental health system that was torn apart years ago. There is not one dollar to increase the number of alcohol and drug rehab centers. There is not one dollar to increase drug prevention and interdiction. The poorest of us all were left out probably because they do not vote. The United States Congress and President should hang their heads in shame. but so should all of us that voted for them.
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