Senator Joe Manchin clearly espoused the insanity of the attempt to bankrupt our country with an additional $3,500,000,000,000 of spending. Spending that only gets the spigot open for a continuous firehose flow of unproductive dollars. Only those hellbent on securing permanent power can propose instituting 3 new behemoth entitlements (Universal Pre – K, Child Care/Credits and “free” Community College) when the current ones are unsustainable. The lies that are being proffered about how these and the other spending items are “critical” don’t stand up to even the simplest of arguments.
Pre – K – The “Head Start” program was born in 1964 as part of the “war on poverty”. Here is what it is supposed to do.
“Head Start is a Federal program that promotes the school readiness of children from
birth to age five from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional
development. Head Start programs provide a learning environment that supports children’s growth in many areas such as language, literacy, and social and emotional development.”*
It, along with the other parts of the “war on poverty” have done such a great job, we now need another layer of bureaucracy and expense.
Child Care/Credits – This would shift the current tax credits to actual payments and further insert the state raising children. It exacerbates disasterous single parent households ignoring the science that proves how detrimental these households are for children. As was the case with the “war on poverty” that exploded the number of single parent households, this will throw gas on that fire. More babies = more money.
“Free” Community College – This proposal merely ackowledges our current education system is broken. Many of the current students coming out of the targeted populations will require remedial learning to get up to real college level. Look for this “camel’s nose in the tent” to move quickly to “free” 4-year college where the standards will more closely resemble those of high school.
Thank you Progressive caucus for demanding the “infrastructure” bill go forward only in unison with this boondoggle. Thank you, “moderate” Democrats, for demanding a vote on the “infrastructure bill before moving on to the kitchen sink “human infrastructure” bill. This circular firing squad is an example of how the Democrats roll.
THANK YOU, Senator Manchin, for standing up and saying the emperor has no clothes. Stand strong for the good our country.
Current Day Publius 
When you divide $3.5trillion by 350million people, you get $10,000 per person. When you divide $3.5trillion by the number of those who actually pay income tax (about 125million), you get $28,000 per taxpayer.
But in actuality, this kind of cost will be spread over the entire population by the mechanism of currency devaluation. Hardest hit will be mortgage lenders who will see their portfolios shrink in real-dollar terms. (They will pass that cost along to new borrowers.)
Randall Kilgore, cpa
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The facts are so apparent but so few are paying attention. More entitlements on top of entitlements that are unsustainable. What else do you need to know to understand this ain’t goin’ to work!
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