Biden just insulted anyone who disagrees with his $4.5 trillion spending binge
By: Brad Polumbo (MSN)
Blaming all of us for his fuck ups?
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Remember when President Joe Biden promised on Inauguration Day that he would restore "unity" to our politics? That didn't last long. Now, the president is saying that if you disagree with his spending bills worth more than $4.5 trillion combined (bigger than the inflation-adjusted New Deal!), you are "complicit in America's decline."
This comes as Biden and his Democratic allies are trying to ram through an "infrastructure" bill worth more than $1 trillion (which contains a whole lot that isn't infrastructure) and a spending package worth over $3.5 trillion focused on huge expansions of the welfare state and "Green New Deal"-esque climate subsidies. The president wants to finance this tremendous spending scheme with tax hikes on individuals and corporations (read: workers and consumers).
But, apparently, disagreeing with these radical proposals is beyond the pale in Biden's view.
"These bills are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive or anything that pits Americans against one another. ... These bills are about competitiveness versus complacency," the president said Tuesday. "They're about opportunity versus decay. They're about leading the world versus letting it pass us by … which is literally happening. To support these investments is to create a rising America. To oppose these investments is to be complicit in America's decline." (Emphasis mine.)
The bad faith rhetoric on display here is nothing short of astounding. The president evidently believes that on complex issues of economic policy involving trillions of dollars in expenditure, no one can disagree with him in good faith — we're all just unpatriotic or something.
What makes this arrogant remark so ignorant is that, actually, Biden's proposals would themselves lead America's economy to decline. (Although I don't think that makes individuals who support them "complicit" in anti-American sentiment.)
For example, the president's "infrastructure" bill includes all sorts of waste and flotsam. It would spend millions combating invasive plants, fund a study on "stormwater management," create a commission to promote gender diversity in the trucking industry, funnel $500 million to public schools, spend $167 million creating an academic institution for "mineral research," and much, much more.
With so much money being taken from taxpayers and funneled toward waste and politicians' pet projects, it's not exactly surprising that the projected economic impact of this plan is dismal. Despite the plan spending more than a trillion and adding to the national debt, Ivy League analysts at the Wharton Business School project that "the plan would have a net-zero effect on employment, wages, and economic growth over both the medium-term (by 2031) and the long-term (by 2050)."
How does opposing such a terrible investment make one complicit in America's decline?
And that's not even mentioning the nightmarish proposal that is supposed to cost $3.5 trillion. That spending scheme, which really costs more like $5 trillion to $5.5 trillion, would waste truly unthinkable sums of taxpayer money on everything from massive electric vehicles subsidies for rich people to Obamacare subsidies for wealthy families to "free" community college to expanding Medicare coverage regardless of actual need.
Frankly, Biden wants to tax us into oblivion just to waste trillions of dollars on largely useless and counterproductive big government programs. If anyone is "complicit in America's decline," it's not the opponents of these plans, but their authors.
Brad Polumbo (@Brad_Polumbo) is a libertarian-conservative journalist and a Washington Examiner contributor. Subscribe to his YouTube channel or email him at bradpolumbojournalism@gmail.com.
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Reminds me of a former candidate and her deplorables comment.
Trump and his supporters are off topic. And a new twist borrowed from a fellow NT'er.
Please remember to quote the person(s) to whom you are replying to preserve continuity of this seed. Failure to do so will result in deletion of your comment.
Seems some need a reminder.
President Biden and his 'supports' are doing just fine.
Some folks shouldn't be calling out fellow NT'ers - isn't that a violation?
Didn't call out a fellow NT'er by name. Stay on topic please. Thanks.
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And I don't flag every comment you make. Quit with the post and delete bullshit.
it didn't last past his next breath.
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Some folks just make up their own rules as they go along.
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I didn't forget anything.
Well Brad, your doomy-gloomy rhetoric leaves much to be desired also. Libertarians seem to have adopted a worse is yet to come attitude if the sun rises.