Pelosi’s famous blurt of truth on Obamacare is coming back again and with the same likely disastrous outcome for our country. The social spending bill that Democrats attempted to pass off as “infrastructure” is coming down to the wire. Note that nothing has been put into bill form yet. All the conversation is around the framework and the total dollars split up around “themes”. When you’re talking about trillions of dollars, the devil is beyond the details; it’s everything! A billion here, a billion there needs some “splainin as Ricky would say.
Mind you, detailing trillions of spending will require pages and pages of written words and figures. This Democrat controlled Congress wants to pass such a bill in hours, not months and with nary a debate on its merits. Must be nice to be able to spend money like Michael Jackson did walking through a toy store. Problem is its our money and we may not want it spent on their toys.
Joe Manchin has been an adult among the children and has called for a pause on this massive spending. Spending that has already spurred inflation that shows no attributes of “transitory”. After nearly $2,000,000,000,000 thrust into the economy earlier this year and not yet spent, here comes the actual infrastructure bill of $1,900,000,000,000 on which the Democrats want another $3,500,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000,000. Don’t be fooled by the lower estimates. They only play games with duration and timing of the new entitlements that will further enslave those who are increasingly made dependent on the largesse of us taxpayers.
Both the real infrastructure and the “social infrastructure” bills are folly and deserve the trash bin…. once written.
Current Day Publius 