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This from a dear, brilliant, thinking friend and fellow memo reader;
"The argument of this chapter needs to be adapted to the new means of communication, especially radio and television ..... When they have a monopoly there is a danger that they will favor one type of social attitude. [Omission of parenthetical noting that Mill would have likely opposed a monopoly over speech.] Furthermore, radio and television are predominantly means of entertainment, and there is the danger that the presentation of news will become a matter of entertainment. There might be a danger of government by clowns.”
Even after working at The NYT's for several years Bret Stephens still get's it!
Biden’s Plan Promises Permanent Decline
Years ago, Alexis Tsipras, the party leader of Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left, surprised me with a question. “Here in the United States,” the soon-to-be prime minister asked me over breakfast in New York, “why do you not have this phenomenon of passing money under the table?”
The subject was health care. Greece has a public health care system that, in theory, guarantees its citizens access to necessary medical care.
Practice, however, is another matter. Patients in Greek public hospitals, Tsipras explained, would first have to slip a doctor “an envelope with a certain amount of money” before they could expect to get treatment. The government, he added, underpaid its doctors and then looked the other way as they topped up their income with bribes.
Take a close look at any country or locality in which the government offers allegedly free or highly subsidized goods and you’ll usually discover that there’s a catch.
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France’s subsidized day care is, by all accounts, fantastic for working parents who get their children into it. Except there’s a perpetual shortage of slots. In Sweden, a raft of laws protects tenants from excessively high rent. Except wait times for apartments can be as long as 20 years. In Britain, the National Health Service is a source of pride. Except that, even before the pandemic, one in six patients faced wait times of more than 18 weeks for routine treatment.
These examples are worth bearing in mind as President Biden charts a course toward the largest expansion of government since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. After signing a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill in March and proposing a $1.5 trillion discretionary budget in April (a 16 percent increase from this year, on top of what’s likely to be at least $3 trillion in mandatory spending on programs like Medicare and Medicaid), the president wants $2.3 trillion more for infrastructure and $1.8 trillion for new social programs.
That’s $7.5 trillion in discretionary spending. To put the number in perspective, we spent $4.1 trillion in inflation-adjusted dollars over nearly four years to wage and win the Second World War.
What will America get for the money? The progressive bet is that it will be things Americans like and want to keep, like universal pre-K and paid parental leave. Progressives also bet Americans won’t mind that the Jeff Bezoses and Elon Musks of the world will pay for all of it.
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Maybe those bets will pay off. And conservatives would be foolish to dismiss the sheer political appeal of the progressive pitch. But before the U.S. takes this leap into a full-blown American social-welfare state, moderates in Congress like Senator Joe Manchin or Representative Jim Costa ought to ask: What’s the catch?
It isn’t that the things Biden wants aren’t worth having. Many of them are. Nor is the mammoth expense the main issue. Worthy things are often worth paying for. And Republicans have as much credibility on the subject of deficit spending as they do on matters of moral character in high office.
The real catch is that massive government spending has hidden costs that are difficult to capture in numbers alone.
Take another look at Europe. Why does R&D spending in the European Union persistently lag that in the U.S., to say nothing of places like Japan and South Korea? Perhaps it’s the same reason that European states cannot adequately meet their defense requirements: Mandatory spending on social-welfare priorities tends to crowd out discretionary spending.
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Why does Europe’s tech start-up scene (with notable exceptions) so notably lag its competitors in the U.S. and Asia? Perhaps it’s the same reason that Europe’s overall share of the world economy has been continuously shrinking despite decades of peace and economic integration: Big social safety nets typically come at the expense of risk-taking and economic dynamism.
And why is France, which, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, spends more on social welfare than any other nation in the developed world, such an unhappy place, with chronically high unemployment, endless labor unrest, a decades-old brain drain, rising political extremism, a wealth tax that failed and a medical system that was on the brink of collapse long before Covid struck?
The answer is no doubt complex. But anyone making the claim that massive government spending on social priorities will take us to the Happy Place needs to address the French example with something other than glib references to joie de vivre.
In his speech to Congress, the president described his jobs plan as a “once in a generation investment in America itself.” Some of what he offers will be popular with the public, and much of it will be popular with all the lobbies that will benefit from opening spigots of public money.
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But investments like these, once made, are almost never reversed. The spending will become permanent. Beyond the gargantuan cost, Congress should think very hard about the real catch: transforming America into a kinder, gentler place of permanent decline.
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Going to war without going to war. Add in cyber attacks and it all becomes economic in nature.
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Recently I wrote those my age would not recognize America after Biden finishes remaking our republic. I also pointed out, when you pay people not to work they tend not to work. This is so logical one should not expect liberals and Democrats to comprehend.The Supply-Side Jobs Slowdown
When you pay people not to work, guess what? Many people don’t.
By The Editorial Board
An economy doesn’t live by demand alone. There is no clearer evidence of that dictum than Friday’s surprising jobs report for April, which undershot the expectations of economists by more than 700,000. Welcome to the supply-side jobs slowdown.
Employers
added a net 266,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1
percentage point to 6.1%. Payrolls for March and February were revised down a
combined 78,000, and 48,000 of the new jobs in April were in government, mostly
local
The report wasn’t a total washout, as private payrolls grew 218,000, mostly from leisure and hospitality jobs (331,000) as the lockdowns continued to ease. But there were large losses i nursing homes (-19,500). Some of this reflects a reallocation of jobs as businesses reopen an temporary positions (-111,400), couriers (-77,400), food and beverage stores (-49,400), andnd consumption shifts.
The Keynesians who now run U.S. policy, at the Treasury and
Federal Reserve, have been using their usual demand-side playbook. Bathe the
country in government cash, keep interest rates at zero, and the resulting rise
in consumer demand will drive everything.
They’ve underestimated the supply-chain constraints that have
been screaming across the economy for months—from too few workers to the
computer chip shortage and soaring lumber and freight prices. The economy can’t
produce enough goods and services fast enough to meet the soaring demand from
the easing pandemic and government policies that have shoveled cash to
consumers and rewarded Americans for not working.
Employers across the country have been complaining for months
that the federal $300 weekly jobless bonus has made it difficult to hire. Most
lower-income workers can make more sitting on the couch. It’s notable that half
of the new labor market entrants last month were teens, most of whom don’t
qualify for jobless benefits because of their short or nonexistent employment
histories.
This was all predicted a year ago by these columns and a few others, including Sens. Ben Sasse and Lindsey Graham and economists Casey Mulligan and Steve Moore. But even as the economy was growing fast again, Democrats in March extended the $300 weekly bonus into September even as they ladled out a bonanza of other transfer payments.
Democrats claimed their $1.9 trillion spending bill was needed to jolt the economy, though it was fast recovering as vaccines rolled out and lockdowns eased. Now the White House is spinning the jobs miss after its spending blowout as something it expected.
“I want to remind everybody it was designed to help us over the course of a year, not 60 days,” President Biden said Friday, adding that the small job growth is “a testament to our new strategy of growing this economy from the bottom up and the middle out” and underscores the need for more government stimulus.
He also said there was no “measurable” data that people aren’t looking for jobs because it pays more not to work. He should get out more and ask some small business owners. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen walked that back some by saying unemployment benefits weren’t a “major factor.” But the Labor Department’s latest Jolts survey showed 7.4 million job openings in February. There are plenty of available jobs but not enough willing workers.
The good news for those who are working is that employers are paying more to attract and keep them. Average hourly earnings last month increased at an 8.4% annual rate and even more for lower-income jobs like retail (16.8%) and leisure and hospitality (19.2%). The risk is that these wage increases will become embedded in expectations and lead to a more general inflation.
The policy lesson is to ease government constraints on supply. That means repealing the federal bonus not to work. And it should mean withdrawing the Biden tax increases that are a frontal attack on investment and supply. There is no need for more Keynesian stimulus, which has become part of the problem.
And, I also wrote reduction of police in cities would have a negative crime impact which would mostly hurt lower socio economic citizens.
A Black Life Lost in Seattle’s No-Cop Zone
Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. was gunned down in the ‘occupied’ area. His parents now seek justice.
By Jillian Kay Melchior
This is the story of a black life that didn’t matter enough, a young man who died in a place where politicians didn’t want the police to go. The story begins with what Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan dubbed the “summer of love” and ends with a 19-year-old left to perish from gunshot wounds.
After the killing of George Floyd last May, protests devolved into riots in many cities. Seattle was especially chaotic. Police withdrew from the city’s East Precinct in early June, and armed anarchists seized control of several blocks near Cal Anderson Park. They declared the area the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” and advertised it as cop-free.
This is the story of a black life that didn’t matter enough, a young man who died in a place where politicians didn’t want the police to go.
“It’s not an armed takeover. It’s not a military junta,” the mayor told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on June 12. “We have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time.” City Council member Kshama Sawant called for the area to be “turned over permanently into community control” and for replacing the police station with “a community center for restorative justice.”
About a week later, Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. went to check out the occupied zone. He never came home. “Evidently it wasn’t so peaceful,” his mother, Donnitta Sinclair, says.
On Aug. 5, King County prosecutors charged Marcel Long, now 19, with first-degree murder. He and Anderson had a history of enmity. Prosecutors allege that when they encountered each other in the streets of the autonomous zone, Mr. Long pulled out a handgun. Anderson backed away and ran, and others present tried to hold Mr. Long back, but he broke away, court filings say. A sobbing witness later told police that the victim tripped or fell and was “on his back, ‘laying there hopeless’ ” when the killer fired on him. Anderson sustained “multiple gunshot wounds” that ultimately killed him, according to court filings. This happened within blocks of the abandoned police precinct.
Ms. Sinclair filed a lawsuit last week seeking to hold the city liable in her son’s death. Attorney Evan Oshan has also filed negligence and breach-of-duty claims against the government on behalf of Anderson’s estate and his father. “Our leaders and government failed Lorenzo,” Mr. Oshan says.
Ms. Sinclair’s complaint alleges that after Anderson was shot, “with no assistance in sight” from the police, bystanders carried him to a medical tent inside the zone of anarchy. “He had a pulse when they laid him down on a table,” the lawsuit says, and a Seattle Fire Department ambulance “was standing about a block and a half away from where Anderson lay bleeding.” Ms. Sinclair’s suit quotes from a social-media video that shows “a man imploring the medics to help Anderson” and saying, “You could be saving his life. You could be saving his life right now. Sir, please, explain to me what’s going on. He’s dying. He needs your help.”
But the medics were “apparently waiting for a green light” from police before entering the zone. In a June 21 statement, the fire department said that “this was a scene where the risk was too high to commit our crews to respond in without a police escort.” Ms. Sinclair alleges that “the City had no effective plan for providing police protection, fire protection, or other emergency services in the surrendered area”; police “deserted the area” and “adopted a policy and practice of not entering the area except in the case of life-threatening crimes, and sometimes not even then.”
Police records I’ve reviewed support that claim. In a report about the murder, Detective Timothy DeVore wrote that “on order of Seattle government officials, this became a police free zone.” Police spokesman Sgt. Randy Huserik says that the police department was “never provided an order to not enter” the occupied zone, though an “officer safety notice was put out that provided a minimum officer response plan should officers need to enter the area.”
Ms. Sinclair alleges that miscommunication between the police and fire departments “caused a delay of approximately 20 minutes.” That was too long for her son. Someone hoisted Anderson into a pickup truck and drove him out of the zone to Harborview Medical Center. He was pronounced dead about eight minutes after his arrival.
Ms. Sinclair got the phone call at home. “They said he got shot, but that he might not have made it. It felt like I took my last breath, to be honest,” she says. “This was a young man coming from a family that adored and loved him and still do. We miss him, and we deserve justice.”
Her son, nicknamed Nino, was a survivor, born at 24 weeks and weighing only 1½ pounds. As a baby, he suffered from hernias and needed glasses; as a toddler he needed oxygen because his lungs weren’t fully developed; and as a child he needed tubing in his ears. “Raising a premie with medical conditions is not easy,” she says. But he played football and graduated from high school in 2019. He also painted public art with the nonprofit Urban ArtWorks.
Anderson dreamed of becoming a rapper. “When we hang I try to get me a little verse in,” Ms. Sinclair says. “I want him to know his momma’s supporting him 100%.” But she urged him to have backup career plans, and before his death he had thought about following his mother into a community-service career. He had a mischievous sense of humor, and he taught his 1-year-old nephew to do push-ups, to the entire family’s amusement. Ms. Sinclair says her grandson still does them, and it both intensifies and soothes her loss.
“As a mother, I’m dying. As a community leader, I’m trying to rebuild strength.”
Ms. Sinclair has spent the past 25 years working with Seattle’s at-risk youth and the homeless, so she says the way her son died “felt like a stab in the back.” Weeping on the phone, she says: “As a mother, I’m dying. As a community leader, I’m trying to rebuild strength.” The authorities’ failure haunts her: “I know my son needed the police at that time, and my son needed the paramedics. Why we would ever have an event where there was no police available? That’s lawless.”
The anarchist occupation also impeded the shooting investigation. Video shows occupiers jeering and heckling as the police walk through. “Because Seattle Police had been excluded from this location,” Detective DeVore writes in his report, “the scene was not contained for their investigation and crime scene investigators did not collect evidence, map out the location, take photos or videos, or talk to individuals who often remain near crime scenes to talk with police.”
One witness, who belonged to the occupation’s volunteer security force, photographed blood stains on the pavement and collected the shell casings and bullet fragments in Ziploc bags. Others provided tips to police. A local business’s cameras caught much of the fatal altercation on video.
Anderson died on June 20. Nine days later another shooting in the zone left a 16-year-old dead and a 14-year-old seriously wounded. No one has been arrested or charged for that murder. The lawsuit notes that there were other shootings, “as well as other crimes such as robbery or sexual assault.” Police finally cleared the zone of occupants on July 1.
Public order in Seattle is likely to deteriorate further. The City Council cut the 2021 police budget by about 9%, or nearly $35.6 million, compared with 2019. More than 200 officers, or more than 1 in 7, left the department in 2020. Exit interviews suggest that many cops felt “this socialist city council and their political agenda” had adversely “affected the ability of the police department to functionally do its job,” as one unnamed longtime veteran of the force wrote.
Another departing officer wrote of being “embarrassed to have to abandon the East [Precinct], where I worked for 10 years.” Yet another wrote: “I feel from the recent events of riots, lack of support from the community and the City Council it is time for me to find a department that allows me to protect the people of the city. I feel that the city council has allowed the few hundred people who still continue to riot to run the city. Community members that need us the most are suffering.”
Seattle saw 56 homicides in 2020, up from 37 in 2019, and 26 of the victims were black. Last year calls for service for shots fired increased by more than 20% compared with 2019. Rates of other crimes rose last year as well: car theft by 23%, burglary nearly 36%, and arson 55%. Similar patterns are evident in other cities that have seen decreases in police funding or personnel, including Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Louisville, Ky. In all three cities, the majority of last year’s murder victims were black.
Justice for Anderson may prove elusive. Prosecutors say Mr. Long has fled the state and “all efforts to locate him have been unsuccessful.” Lawsuits against the government are a long shot; Ms. Sinclair’s lawyer, Mark Lindquist, acknowledges that “generally speaking, governments are not liable for criminal acts of third parties.” Courts have usually held that police have no legally enforceable duty to protect citizens, but Mr. Lindquist argues “there’s an exception when the government creates the danger, and that’s what happened here.” Dan Nolte, a spokesman for the Seattle city attorney’s office, says, “We intend to investigate these brought claims and will defend the City in this matter.”
“The city officials let us down, let us down as a whole, our whole community.”
The only solution may be political. “The city officials let us down, let us down as a whole, our whole community,” Ms. Sinclair says. The city will choose a new mayor in November. Ms. Durkan isn’t seeking re-election.
Ms. Melchior is an editorial page writer for the Journal.
Happening Now: America Was Just
Attacked
“A U.S. energy company says a cyberattack forced it to temporarily halt all operations on a major pipeline that delivers roughly 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast,” according to the Associated Press. [emphasis added]
“Colonial Pipeline said the attack took place Friday and also affected some of its information technology systems. The company transports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and home heating oil from refineries primarily located on the Gulf Coast through pipelines running from Texas to New Jersey…
“Oil analyst Andy Lipow said the impact of the attack on fuel supplies and prices depends on how long the pipeline is down. An outage of one or two days would be minimal, he said, but an outage of five or six days could causes shortages and price hikes, particularly in an area stretching from central Alabama to the Washington, D.C., area. [emphasis added]
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White liberals, who think I am a racist, are shocked:
HAMPTON FALLS, IA—White liberals gathered in the town of Hampton Falls were shocked and astonished as local black man, accountant, and father of three Michael Sparkton walked right into a DOT office and acquired an ID without any assistance from liberals whatsoever."It was amazing -- he was smart, clean, and articulate enough to walk right in and acquire the ID without consulting us white people at all," said anti-racist activist Chloe Ryder to reporters. "He walked right in and got the ID, no questions asked. We thought it would be way above his intelligence level because, well. You know what I'm saying, right? Yeah. You know."
Reporters said they did not know, and Ryder was forced to whisper, "because he's black and I don't think he's capable of doing it!"
At publishing time, the liberals were amazed to see he had walked up to a vending machine and purchased a bottle of water all by himself.
Sorry, Professor, We’re Cutting You Off
Funding higher education now means subsidizing the political activists who have hijacked it.
By
Higher education had a cluster of related purposes in society. Everyone benefited from the new knowledge it developed and the well-informed, thoughtful citizenry it produced. Individual students benefited from the preparation they received for careers in a developed economy. Yet these days, academia has decided that its primary purpose is the promotion of a radical political ideology, to which it gives the sunny label “social justice.”
That’s an enormous detour from the institutional mission granted to higher education by society—and a problem of grave consequence. For the purpose that academia has now given itself happens to be the only one that the founding documents of virtually all colleges and universities take care to forbid pre-emptively. The framers of those documents understood that using the campuses to promote political ideologies would destroy their institutions, because ideologies would always be rigid enough to prevent the exploration of new ideas and the free exercise of thought. They knew that the two purposes—academic and political—aren’t simply different, but polar opposites. They can’t coexist because the one erases the other.
The current political uniformity of college faculty illustrates the point. It meets the needs of the substitute purpose very well, but only by annihilating the authorized one. Analytical thinking requires exploring a range of alternatives, but political crusades require the opposite: exclusive belief and commitment. That’s how far off course academia has gone in its capricious self-repurposing.
Though most Americans aren’t happy about this, academia has no qualms. No matter how many times the lack of intellectual diversity on politicized, one-party campuses is decried as unhealthy and educationally ruinous, the campuses won’t listen. There was once internal debate about higher education’s direction between traditional academic scholars and radical political activists, but that debate is long over. The activists, now firmly in control, have no interest in what the dwindling ranks of scholars have to say.
The only remaining disputes about this illicit repurposing are therefore not among campus people, but between academia and the society it supposedly serves. And that should concern everyone. What can we do when a social institution is created for a particular purpose but abandons it? What should we do when an institution decides that it, not the society that created it, will determine its own purpose? What shall we do with an institution that has decided all these things but also expects to hang on to the funding that was provided for the original purpose?
The obvious thing to do is to take back the money and redirect it to its proper use. That will be more easily done with some institutions than others.
The radicals of the Minneapolis City Council voted to repurpose their police department—transforming cops into social workers—because only one funding source was involved and they controlled it. By contrast, higher education gets its funding from a great many sources: federal and state governments (a k a taxpayers), students, parents of students, alumni, donors and endowments. Defunding academia would involve millions of individual as well as institutional decisions. Yet large numbers of those decisions have already been made and are still being made.
In fall 2011 the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that higher education enrollment was slightly more than 20.5 million students. By fall 2019 that figure had dropped to about 18.2 million, a decline of slightly over 11%. During those eight years the number of 18- to 24-year-olds remained roughly constant.
We have long had a social consensus that it’s worth four years of our children’s lives and very large sums of their parents’ money to see their knowledge, mental capacity, and career prospects greatly expanded by going to college. Attitudes and habits formed by this consensus were bound to lag behind the reality of academia as it now is. Yet the NSCRC numbers show that already about 1 in 9 have mustered the courage and independence of thought to face reality and stop wasting time and money.
This illicit conversion of a vital social institution to an alien use deprives all Americans of the benefits of a properly functioning system of higher education. It also means that a destructive and long since discredited political ideology is now using colleges and universities to gain a degree of influence over society that it could never have achieved at the ballot box. That’s election interference on a scale not remotely matched by anything that was alleged in the 2020 election.
When academia’s astonishing message to society is, “We’ll take your money, but we’ll do with it what we want, not what you want,” the response ought to be simple: “No you won’t.” The question is, can the millions of people who make up that wonderful abstraction called “society” act in a way that is sufficiently concerted and organized to deliver the message effectively? Many have already made a good start. But the rest need to join if we are ever again to have college campuses that aren’t as academically incompetent as they are politically malevolent.
Mr. Ellis is a professor emeritus of German literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of “The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done.”
Sanitation will be elevated also adding to operating costs.
Human vulnerability to disease will forever become a factor in human choices and behaviour.
Thank you China!
As a retired clinical psychologist, I’ve always been fascinated with how language is not just the result of thought but can actually shape thought and behavior. But as an American, I am distressed over how language is being used to control thought and behavior among our population in ways that are toxic to our culture, counter to our God-given rights, and destructive to our nation.
In George Orwell’s prophetic novel 1984, the fictional totalitarian government maintained control of the thought processes of its population largely through use of “doublespeak.” American politicians, especially Democrats and those on the political left, have mastered the art of doublespeak and have been pumping it out through all available media outlets for decades.
Consider the left’s use of the terms:
a) “Liberal” to describe an ideology which, if anything, opposes and goes to extremes to quash diversity of thought and behavior that threatens its authority and definition of “truth.”
b) “Progressive” for agendas and policies that have over time effectively killed creativity, rewarded mediocrity and dumbed down our society to maintain control through mandatory, unquestioning conformity.
c) “Inclusiveness” and “diversity” that have spawned an explosion of laws and a burgeoning industry based upon discrimination against and exclusion of major segments of the population according to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion and other personal attributes.
d) “Justice” not as noble pursuit of equity and fairness based upon law and order and God’s ultimate truth, but as an excuse for wanton, violent revenge and unbridled thirst for wealth and power.
e) “Socialist” to soft-soap the harsh, often lethal realities of communism by connoting opportunities to interact and bond with well-intentioned others for presumably positive, altruistic, common good purposes, and
f) Even “Democrat” as a false representation of a political party which, according to emerging evidence and growing public consensus, is being discovered to have been, in a most undemocratic manner, rigging elections in their favor for many years.
Doublespeak can also be seen in the way the Democratic left, the Biden administration, and the Democrat-controlled Congress spin their radical legislative and policy initiatives. They know the majority of Americans would never support these initiatives on their own merit, so they try to snow the public with pretty titles. Examples:
1) H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” designed to let Democrats take control of federal elections away from the states so they can continue to rig the outcomes.
2) H.R. 5, the “Equality Act,” designed to allow biological men who “identify” as women into women’s sports, locker rooms, restrooms, and other private settings and to undo decades of progress in women’s rights.
3) Biden’s proposed “American Rescue Plan Act,” designed to spend $1.9 trillion of our taxpayer dollars, allegedly to aid recovery from the so-called “pandemic,” but with only 10% actually directed toward COVID mitigation and the rest going to a new type of social “welfare” that pays people more to not go back to work and to Democrat-favored businesses looking to pad their assets.
4) Biden’s proposed “American Jobs Plan” which would spend only 5% of its budget-busting $2.25 trillion price tag on infrastructure but mostly funds “Green New Deal” and other Democrat pet political causes, and
5) Biden’s proposed “American Families Act” which is a thinly veiled plot to push government-approved propaganda throughout the U.S. educational system starting at age three, while seducing us with unsustainable promises of free child care, free education through two-year college, free money for just having more children, and other “free stuff,” all for $1.8 trillion (recently upgraded to $2.5 trillion) of money that, like with the aforementioned spending packages, doesn’t even exist.
Look at the pattern here: Pleasant-sounding words to hide evil intent to establish a godless totalitarian communist government like that in China right here in the United States of America. Don’t let the language fool you. The illegitimate, incompetent, amoral, anti-America Biden administration and the Democrat/Pelosi/Schumer-controlled Congress are out to destroy our constitutional republic by spending us into oblivion and outlawing the fundamental rights and freedoms of future generations of Americans.
Don’t let yourself be seduced and manipulated by the left’s doublespeak. Question everything and think for yourself. Speak up publicly without fear and contact your state and federal legislators to express your opinions. Don’t let the lying left get away with this “1984-style” mass brainwashing and rape of our nation.
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