How The Left Has Used COVID-19 To Bankrupt The United States
By: Stephen Moore
Democrats are using covid to ruin America. They are creating big government and cramming the green new deal. Covid has come from China and is giving us China like fascism as our government. Democrats are using covid to control the economic choices of the people, limit individual rights, repress religious liberty. They are using covid to trample upon the constitution and break us.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
How The Left Has Used COVID-19 To Bankrupt The United States
I have never bought the conspiracy theories that COVID-19 was a diabolical political plot to undermine the country. But what is apparent with each passing week is that the virus has been the springboard for the left’s agenda to transform America in a way that Sen. Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore or Rachel Maddow could have never imagined.
Without COVID-19, President Joe Biden would never have been elected, of course. So, for the left, the virus defeated former President Donald Trump. COVID-19 is now the gateway to the left’s utopian agenda of multitrillion-dollar climate policies, hyperregulation of the economy, the rebirth of the welfare state and a radical redistribution of income.
Under Trump policies, we had one of the most robust financial and economic expansions on record, especially regarding minority advancement and historic reductions in poverty. The entitlement state was in retreat as income growth and record job openings pushed millions of people out of the welfare state into work. If the left truly cared about the plight of the poor, they would have celebrated. Instead, the results showing tax cuts, deregulation and laissez-faire policies work made liberals miserable.
COVID-19 made the rebirth of big government possible. Last year, with Trump still in the White House, Congress spent $6 trillion, much of it (such as the $600 a week bonus unemployment benefits) wastefully and ineffectively. But it was emergency spending.
The National Bureau of Economic Research recently declared the recession ended in April of 2020, and the recovery has been accelerating thanks to the vaccine.
We would be aggressively cutting government spending in a rational world, as we did after victories in World War II and the Cold War.
Instead, the left has leveraged COVID-19 fears to call for a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill on top of the $1.9 trillion spent in March on welfare programs and now $4.1 trillion in public works programs; labor union protections; green new deal subsidies; Medicare and Medicaid and food stamps expansions; and bailouts of Amtrak, urban transit and schools. The public schools in many blue states were shut down for a year, yet taxpayers have to give the teachers unions $100 billion. Explain that one.
The Congressional Budget Office calculates all of this will add $20 trillion of new debt spending over a decade — and that is with a massive tax increase.
COVID-19 has somehow given a new license to even the nuttiest leftist ideas. So, we have Democrats speeding forward with a plan to raise tax rates to more than 50% and implement welfare benefits that can pay families more than $100,000 in annualized wage equivalent benefits. The government could hit and remain above 50% of GDP, matching the European socialist nations.
Spending programs that were once scoffed at with price tags in the billions of dollars are now sailing through with trillion-dollar budgets. Moreover, COVID-19 has unleashed Modern Monetary Theory, meaning that the federal government apparently has a no-limit credit card.
COVID-19 is all but over, and the toll has been awful. Life expectancy fell in 2020 for the first time since World War II. Tragically, the “cure” — or should I say, the carnage — of the Biden post-COVID-19 progressive experiment might, in the end, be far more devastating and long-lasting than the terrible disease itself.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. He is the co-author of “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive the American Economy.” To find out more about Stephen Moore and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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It morphed into Covid-D and the toll will also be awful.
Take your vaccine shots, stop worrying, and quit fear mongering
And show some concern and quit denying the reality of the ongoing super spreader event occurring at the southern border.
Vaccines are not as effective against covid variants and will probably become increasingly less effective as newer variants emerge. If everyone had tried to get their shots asap without refusing to do so or spread misinformation about it, then perhaps we wouldn't have to worry about it now. Instead, people continue to be irrational and stupid and now there's a surge in covid cases again.
No it won’t. It’s much more mild in hospitalizations and deaths than the original. We are likely to have flu like variants of covid for years to come. That’s manageable without ridiculous controls on our actions or our economy which is the topic of the seed. Democrats want to keep covid going longer so that they can use it to transform the economy into command socialism
Can you post some credible sources confirming that. I would expect the formula to constantly be modified as these variants appear, similar to the seasonal flu shots.
I have, I worry about those who have willfully not and by not taking them turning themselves into Covid Mary Petri dishes.
That is a flat out lie. It's as deadly and much more contagious than the original. You are completely devoid of facts and spew BS.
If you watched or read anything other than Fox you know right now we are in a huge surge. Wake up and quit posting lies.
He can't get away with his BS anywhere else...
No it’s not. The UK just went though a delta issue. It lasted about 4 weeks and is receding. No major upticks in hospitalization or deaths there just cases. It should be much the same here. Not an excuse for more government controls over our lives.
Sorry but it’s not a lie to disagree with you or the regime.
Where else am I. Are you suggesting if I’d have put my articles on Facebook or the videos from them on you tube that they would have been censored police state style?
The CDC has four variants of concern listed for the USA: alpha, beta, gamma and delta. A variant of concern is defined by the CDC as:
Also per the CDC:
From Yale Medicine :
The vaccines are largely holding against these variants albeit not as effectively. But new variants continue to evolve with no guarantee that the vaccines efficacy will hold up.
Brain-dead, fear-laden conspiratorial nonsense.
The push to get people vaccinated is a critical measure to help counter the variants of COVID-19. If Biden (and the Ds) wanted to keep COVID going (again, fear-laden, utterly stupid conspiratorial nonsense) they would talk down the virus and vaccinations like Trump did. They are doing the opposite of that.
We are not in the UK for Christ's sake. There are huge upticks in cases and hospitalizations including children in the US.
Cases in Florida are now over 16,000 per day and hospitalizations are again nearing record highs. Many hospitals are canceling elective surgeries.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Dangerous disinformation gets people killed.
Sites which allow it can be held responsible...
Sites which allow false claims to be repeated and then counter those claims with facts do a service to truth. The counter arguments and facts that show the false claims to be stupid, emotional nonsense are arming people with good information.
It is important to have a place where false claims can be made by the irresponsible stubbornly ignorant so that they can be torn apart and shown to be crap.
Here you go:
From the New England Journal of Medicine .
From the CDC .
From the WHO .
As reported in Observer .
From the IHME .
From Washington School of Medicine .
From the NIH .
Studies are still being conducted to examine the mechanism and effects of Covid and the vaccines. Science is still learing about the virus in real time. So it's not just a simple matter of producing a new vaccine on the fly for every variant. Especially since we still haven't achieved herd immunity against the ancestral Covid virus yet. With each new variant, there's a chance for the genetic markers and receptors of the virus to mutate enough to further negate the effect of the vaccines.
Complete mindlessness and nonsense. Categorize according to the following graphic.
The partisanship adds a twist of political masturbation.
Here is your assignment:
1. Find out how much money Federal Reserve Incorporated creates and pumps into the markets every month.
2. Then ask yourself to whom that money is available, and who will pay for it and how.
3. Then explain how the necessity of generating mountains of fictitious currency is a good thing afterall.
I had other questions, but these should suffice for now.
One final point: you're allowed to reply to these questions with partisan political masturbation.
I'm requiring intelligent, meaningful replies to a policy that has been in place for years.
[Deleted] Try visiting a red state hospital, say FL, and ask the over worked HCP's if covid is almost over.
Biden is extending the disease here by deliberately importing covid positive illegal aliens and shipping them off to red states. That’s the super spreader.
Deliberately is quite the accusation, you of course have proof of your assertion.
Of course he does not have proof.
Another NT user once said China allowed Covid to spread as an opportunity to take down Trump. The wild claims some make are beyond ridiculous.
They are letting people into the country and transporting them to the interior knowing that they are covid positive.
It's on the news daily...unless one is in complete denial, or willfully ignorant
Deliver evidence that our government is knowingly transporting COVID positive individuals into the interior of our nation.
The word being used is "deliberately" and the phrase being used is "deliberately importing covid positive illegal aliens."
I watch CBC, BBC, CTV. Global, ABC, PBS and MSNBC for news and not one talked of "deliberately".
What do you watch to keep you from being wilfully ignorant?
I see you have dropped 'deliberately' from your tune.
Once they have been discovered covid positive and are not immediately deported along will all they have been in close contact with it becomes deliberate and willful with malicious intent to let them stay here.
That's nice. Prove it!
That they have settled covid positive and those in close contact with them in this country rather that deporting them is all the proof one needs to make this well founded allegation against the Biden administration.
Still empty allegations. I asked for actual proof. Not your own opinion.
Your guy wanted to spread infection. Get your story straight.
The more we reply to inane nonsense, the less bandwidth remains for discussing class struggle.
There is plenty of time to discuss many varied topics. A focus on a single topic tends to desensitize people.
The only class struggle is the war the bi coastal secular progressive urban elites including media, big tech social media, and multinational corporations and the non working and servant class very poor against the working class, farmers, ranchers, some of the professional class, and middle class in this country.
That is an idiotic comment. This article, your introduction to the article and every comment you wrote are totally fraudulent. You should be ashamed of yourself. Your mother is.
Hate to butt in here, but as we discussed back in March there was indeed evidence from those on the ground along the border that undocumented immigrants were indeed crossing the border untested for Covid by the DHS unless they showed obvious symptoms. Local resources were charged with trying to detain and emergency test these people with organizations like Catholic Charities trying to assist and arrange for places for those who tested positive to quarantine for two weeks. It was reported that many who tested positive did in fact not properly quarantine and were released to locations north knowingly infected with Covid-19, with DHS clearance to proceed. The reports to which I linked can still be found HERE and HERE.
Granted this was reported early after the new administration began to reset the border policy, and one would hope the conditions would have improved since then. Although THIS more recent article does not bode well.
More HERE from earlier this week:
It has been quite some time since these things were first being reported in February and March, and it would appear that it is only getting worse. It is difficult to believe at this point that what the DHS is doing (or not doing as the case may be) is happening unknowingly.
Thanks for documenting these episodes we remember seeing or reading news reports about dating back as far as months ago. The ones being released back in March coincides with Texas, Mississippi,and other states ending all covid restrictions and mask mandates and being accused of Neanderthal thinking.
XX made this allegation @2.1:
Do you believe Biden seeks to extend COVID-19 infection in the USA?
'The only class struggle is...'
Anywhere on earth, working class people are those of any color or gender who must sell their labor power to survive.
Kapital can't exist without this. Yet these very dynamics unite workers everywhere against capitalist owners, investors and their governments.
You can't prevent class struggle; you can only repress it. And you know how well repression goes over with human beings.
As socialists, our task is to make this objective reality of Kapital [and the tasks arising from it] consciously understood.
Enjoy the ride!
No I do not believe he is purposefully trying to target red states by shipping people with Covid to them. But the current policies are resulting in more people who have tested positive migrating further north either on their own or more recently actually being transported by the DHS to places like Laredo. That does need to be acknowledged and addressed.
As indicated in the last report to which I linked, it is a combination of the Fed and State policies that is creating an explosive situation with the spread of Covid especially in the southern states.
I don’t buy into these red state blue state games, or these theories that Biden wants to spread Covid on purpose. No Governor in any state is actively discouraging people from getting vaccinated as some have claimed either.
There are many reasons why Covid is spreading and why people are hesitant to get vaccinated. We need to focus on each of those reasons, educate people and adjust policies intelligently without the animosity generated by over-politicizing and seeking to heap blame on political rivals. We need to work together and our leaders need to quit putting politics in the way of real solutions.
My focus has been to challenge XX's claim that Biden seeks to increase the infections in the USA for political gain.
The sloppiness / incompetence of how we are managing our borders is in my mind a separate issue. It is important, but it should not be used (by those like XX) to encourage nutty conspiracy theories such as Biden (and the Ds) purposely infecting the USA so that they can control the citizens.
Well XX is now quite thrilled (see @2.1.21) because he thinks you have provided evidence that Biden wants to spread COVID on purpose.
Agreed 100%!
Well he shouldn't be because that is not what I have done. I have reported on what is ACTUALLY happening due to Federal and State policies. This is being reported by Democrats and Republicans in the cities and counties along the border. I have not claimed that the Feds or the State or any red or blue politicians are actively trying to spread Covid or discourage/prevent people from getting vaccinated. THAT is what the partisans on either side are doing and I think it does more harm than good. It puts politics in the way of focusing on the core problems and coming up with proper solutions.
There have been other folks here and elsewhere in the partisan blogosphere who have maintained that there is no impact from undocumented migrants entering the country without being tested by the DHS, later found to be Covid positive by third party emergency testing and then moving further into the country on DHS authority without proper quarantine. If the science means anything to anybody, this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed, not simply swept under the rug or bussed to another city, nor reduced to a fricken Red vs. Blue circus! Fixing this, and better educating people as to the importance of getting vaccinated (and addressing their concerns/hesitancy), are things we need to work on together, not continually arguing about which fucking party is to blame.
I can't control how people react to the facts that I present. XX turns this issue into a weapon against Biden and we all know that doesn't help solve anything. On another article I presented data from the CDC/KFF showing that African-Americans and Latinos lag well behind White folks and Asians in ALL states with respect to percentage of those communities fully or partially vaccinated. Which indicates to me we need to pinpoint the reasons for that and focus on solutions to mitigate it to protect those communities and those around them. Instead I was met with accusations of trying to shift the focus from a red-blue argument to a racist assignment of blame for our Covid issues to people of color. WTF?!!! Partisans will kill any efforts to logically identify the core problems and create reasonable targeted solutions by immediately injecting their partisan poison. Don't you find that frustrating AF?
I was responding to your 2.1.5 which was a response to his 2.1.3
Turns out that statement is actually true if the "they" is the DHS. You asked for evidence in 2.1.5 and since I had just read the reports, I provided them. Should I have just kept my mouth shut since such facts are inconvenient, or they might be misused by some?
As to his statement at 2.1
Complete partisan bullshit! And it only causes people to discount or ignore the actual facts behind the issue. You won't see me voting that kind of shit up.
He (and others) will take a data point (e.g. sloppy handling of illegal immigrants) and connect it with an extremely long line to 'Biden wants infections to increase'.
Context, however, was the allegation against Biden. I used 'our government' in my challenge but I was thinking 'government by Biden's direction'. I probably should have phrased it: "Deliver evidence that Biden has knowingly directed our government to intentionally transport COVID positive individuals into the interior of our nation."
I try to make my challenges very narrow but obviously I do not always accomplish that.
With certain people here we are dealing with perpetual spin and often whole-cloth bullshit (making shit up). Any remote kernel of truth is more than enough for them to confirm their bias.
Absolutely. Pure partisan thinking is a major factor behind the sorry state of our current political system.
The accusations is BS, the response to that type of nonsense could be that Native Americans/Alaska Natives have the highest vaccinated rate by a long way. They are followed by Asians, then Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders. All of these groups are minorities so their argument is void at that point. Whites follow then Hispanics and blacks are the bottom two demographic groups. The mission is to find out and overcome the hesitancy in those groups, if we don't this pandemic will never end.
Many times the peer groups in each demographic have more sway than anyone else. Since I am a member of the most vaccinated group, IMO there are things that can be done to help get more of the bottom three vacinated, and continue more vaccinations in the top groups.
Finally! Someone who understands me...LOL. We see it the same way Kavika, thank you!. I think that is a fairly simple concept to grasp, but as soon as finger pointing partisans get a hold of it, the mission goes out the window and it becomes all politics and blame game. Facts are useless unless we use them to solve problems instead of using them as weapons.
I am truly sorry about that, but to me that is no reason to hide or suppress the truth. Especially in a situation as critical as this where we need to identify the contributing factors in the spread of this disease, and the hesitancies to get vaccinated, and then develop reasonable solutions to every one of those factors to get the situation under control.
Why did you state this? I am not trying to hide or suppress truth. I was challenging XX to back up his claim that Biden seeks to increase the infections in the USA for political gain.
I only speak for myself among members here. As to my posted cartoon, it just seemed so right on for this conversation. [deleted]
I too have received some blowback for mentioning vaccine reluctance being higher among Hispanic and African American communities than among Trump supporters. That reality deflects from the narrative since a lot of people in those communities live in red states.
Sorry TiG, I did not mean to infer that you would want to hide or suppress the truth. I know you would not.
What I meant was that this border issue is not widely reported in the mainstream media and when I bring it up (not just here) some folks just don't want to hear it. They will minimize it, blame it on Trump or other rival, suggest that I'm just being xenophobic, or insist that the issue is strictly a red-blue state issue especially in the South. I'm just frustrated I suppose when facts that could lead us to some real solutions and improvement are twisted to fit some partisan narrative by either side, and nothing gets done because of it.
As usual, I flapped my gums too much here and wrote something without properly considering how it might be taken. Sorry about that my friend.
I said nothing about Trump supporters, I said white folks and Asians because that is what the data shows, so don't lump me into that statement. I don't even know if what you said is true. I concur with Kavika that we need to address the particular reasons for hesitancy in each group and then use that knowledge to best educate everyone as to the importance of getting vaccinated. I agree that Trump did tell people to get the vaccine back in Feb and March, but I think it would really help if he continues with that message in earnest given what we are seeing right now.
It illustrates the blind partisanship replete in your comments.
It was only a matter of time until Donald Trump converted the debate over covid-19 vaccines into an occasion for his supporters to show their loyalty to him — and even worse, to the “big lie” that his 2020 loss was illegitimate.
“People are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don’t trust his Administration,” the former president said in a statement Sunday, referring to President Biden. “They don’t trust the Election results, and they certainly don’t trust the Fake News.”
There you have it: Trump is telling his supporters that they are correct not to trust the federal government on vaccines, because this sentiment should flow naturally from their suspicion that the election was stolen from him.
Expressing the former has been magically transformed into a way to show fealty to the latter.
This suggests the anti-vaccine mania on the right may only get worse, at exactly the moment that we need it to get better. This vile new Trump claim hints at how this is likely to happen, with the complicity of even relatively responsible Republicans.
We’re seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases due to the delta variant and the lag in vaccinations, with new cases overwhelmingly concentrated among the unvaccinated. Both trends — surging cases and lagging vaccinations — are unfolding primarily in red states .
It’s bad enough that Trump has now recast the question of whether to trust the federal government on vaccines as a proxy for whether the election was stolen from him.
Is that good enough for you?
Christ! That is the exact opposite of the message he needs to send right now. What utter dumb-fuckery!!!
You talkin to yourself John?
If anyone believes that Donald Trump gives two shits as to whether or not anyone gets vaccinated , they need to have their head examined
Does not surprise me a bit. That sounds just like what would come from a malignant narcissist. Although XX claims (without evidence) that Biden wants infection rates to increase, here we have Trump yet again providing an excuse for his sycophants to continue to not get vaccinated and, by extension, disregard sensible precautions while Delta flares in the USA.
Yet XX, et. al. will very likely spin this ...somehow... as Trump being a patriot.
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The fact is that a bunch of the progressive left do make a point of singling out Trump supporting conservatives for vaccine reluctance when other groups who actually vote their way in the majority have higher numbers of unvaccinated. The left wing progressive narrative that its Trump supporters who are why vaccines are coming up short is a flat out bald faced lie.
And I stand by everything I said to you. Today’s Biden cartoon is even better. See post #8 below. I highly recommend it.
Trump has urged people to get the vaccine every time he’s asked about it. If Biden had a functional brain inside that head of his, he’d be asking Trump to make PSA’s urging people to take the vaccine and then place his ads on Facebook, Twitter, You Tube , and network tv. He’d do it if they asked him to.
You cannot see how Trump is equating not getting vaccinated with 'defying the Biden administration'??
No, because he’s not doing that. Now that you made the accusation, prove it!
Yep, it's partisan politics in all it's gory glory. Using something like this to attack the other party and by extension the Biden Administration. Kind of like how the Democrats last year used the development of the vaccine as an attack against Trump Administration and the Republican party. You remember I'm sure, both Biden and Harris stating they would not trust or take the "Trump Vaccine". This pandemic has been politicized from the very beginning and used to attack the "other" party all along. The lies and misinformation that was pushed from both sides as an attack on the other party was clear to see but people need to remove the scales from their eyes before they can see what is really happening.
I'm confident that there are those on this board who will attack this because I used that "red flag" of both sides do it. I can only hope that someday the majority of citizens of this country grow up to realize that the two political parties do not give a shit about any of us. So long as they can remain in power they will continue to use anything and everything to remain there.
URP! This from Moore, King of the Supply Siders...
The Heritage Foundation, too.
In other words, the BS Factory.
That is a very good organization. Almost as good as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute.
That would be Biden and Pelosi.
How juvenile.
Not so much as the post I responded to was. Tit for tat.
So a version of "you did it so I can too." That only makes it worse.
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Good. Launch a personal attack, end civil discussion. So stop initiating the cheap shots.
I'm not the one initiating the cheap shots here.
See 3.1.4
See 3.1.5
See 3.1.6
See 3.1.4.
Supply side works. There is no better economic model for an economy.
You voted that up yourself. Nobody else would...
Never ever has cutting taxes increased income!
Of course I did. I always vote up my replies to secular progressives posts.
We know, though nobody else hardly ever does!
It has almost every time it’s been done.
... because no one else does.
That's fertilizer.
Donald Trump inherited a Federal government of 8.5 million federal workers, contractors, military, postal and grants
and grew that to almost 11 million that Biden inherited.
Nothing known as the "green new Deal" has passed yet.
I think that falls under dramatic license.
The mother load of fertilizer.
You never fail to disappoint our expectations, bravo...
Stephen moore is The Paul Lynde of Economics...
He cracks himself up he is so full of rightwing lies.
Stephen Moore is correct about each and every single point he made in his article without exception.
Really?
The USA is bankrupt?
That's quite a credibility killer there.
Wow talk about credibility..."all but over" for who?
One one hand you agree that it's almost over, but with another seed you state we are deliberately importing it.
That's a rather problematic way of acknowledging ( at some level ) that this won't end here until it ends globally.
So which is it?
No he said liberals are using covid as a rationale or cover to create programs that would if implemented would leave us in that condition. He’s right.
Meaningless declaration.
That is exactly what post 4.2.3 is.
Another Pee Wee Herman response. How droll.
I'm older than you, fairly well educated and very well traveled, please don't insult your own intelligence or mine.
The title of this piece of partisan literary masturbation is written in the past tense.
It's an inflammatory lie of gargantuan proportions.
But typical for Moore and his think tank.
I’m proud of Moore and his foundation. They are the ones who are correct here.
"Chicken Little", emotional, irrational conspiracy theory.
What's funny is how they yell chicken little too whenever the topic of climate change and its impact comes up.
Is there something you wanted to say?
I sad it.
Copy & pasting isn't saying anything. It's what one does when one doesn't have a valid argument or original thought to make.
This is the kind of crap that encourages simple minds to not take CDC/government recommendations seriously. The cartoon makes it look as though these acts are entirely arbitrary when in fact these have been logical responses to changing conditions (i.e. at first this was based on learning-while-combating the virus and the pandemic and later the result of vaccinations and the pandemic slowing and finally in response to new variant infections).
This very stupid and false representation of what took place is what many take as their base of information. They are walking about stubbornly ignorant.
You do a disservice to society by helping to spread this with your parroting.
While I can disagree with the cartoon's lyrics
I can completely appreciate the comedy and political irony of matching it to The Hokey Pokey.
CDC truly sucks at doing their job an have since Jan. 20.
It is sickening to me that people use this outbreak of sickness as some political football and do nothing but spread lies and disinformation.
A science denial. We all know...
We all know it is a denial of science to make kids wear masks
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He is a junk cartoonist.
He’s one of the best political cartoonists.
So tell the Biden regime to stop doing it.
The truth is hard for some to handle..
What a piece of shit posted as a credible seed.
It is only credible to him. We know better.
Stephen Moore is a very accomplished economist and has been right on regarding his written opinion content for a long time.
Covid deaths over time in the US, for those making false claims about the Biden Admin.
Right on Tina! Well said. Great cartoon and awesome photo.
You fucking seriously gave props to your own post? Do you really have no low? One of the most pathetic people on the internet.
I will sum up the seed right here.
Time began on 01/20/2021