INEPTOCRACY CHRONICLES – RINOS Join Dems In Selling Out America’s Future Generations
Our children and grandchildren should not and won't forgive us for stealing their money and wasting it . . .
Posted by Ryan James | Aug 6, 2021 | Politics
We can always count on our Congressional Republicans to sell out to the Democrats when the chips are down.
The RINOs in Congress have once again screwed future generations by agreeing to a bloated $1 trillion “infrastructure” bill.
I use quotes because only 23% of the bill goes towards actual physical infrastructure.
Infrastructure has been redefined as anything that Democrats say it is. And the RINOS are playing right along.
The RINOs negotiated the deal—which is expected to pass the Senate— with the Democrats, and predictably, they got played.
RINOs like Mitt Romney and Rob Portman gave the Democrats what they wanted and they are proud of it.
The Associated Press reports that” Overall, the infrastructure package calls for $550 billion in new spending over five years above projected federal levels for a nearly $1 trillion expenditure, what could be one of the more substantial investments in the nation’s roads, bridges, waterworks, broadband and the electric grid in years.
A much-anticipated analysis of the bill from the Congressional Budget Office concluded that the legislation would increase deficits by about $256 billion over the next decade.”
Of course, the RINOS and the Dems claim that the bill will be paid for.
If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
Tax revenue alone doesn’t even come close to covering the insane amount of federal spending, and this monstrosity of a bill is no exception.
The Government is running on credit, and the more the government borrows, the more they spend.
The infrastructure contains a paltry amount of actual physical infrastructure like the RINOS and Dems claim.
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Kimberley Strassel wrote that “there’s the $21 billion earmarked for ‘environmental remediation,’ or the $50 billion under the catchall category of climate ‘resilience and western water storage.’
“The Energy Department gets more than $20 billion to reprise its failed role as a green-energy venture capitalist. The Federal Emergency Management Agency gets $3.5 billion to deal with flooding. There’s new money for the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Forest Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, you name it.
The big corporation lobbyists are salivating over the bill. Strassel writes that with “more than 2,000 companies and groups [are] engaging Washington officials on infrastructure this year alone. The bill creates a $6 billion handout for nuclear companies, which could benefit such paupers as Exelon and Southern Co. And any C-suite that dreams up a program for this-or-that green technology will be in line for federal cash.”
The current crop of Republicans came into power largely thanks to the Tea Party movement that demanded that the government reduce spending and repeal Obamacare. The Republicans rode the Tea Party wave to the biggest landslide victory in a mid-term election since the 1920s.
However, they betrayed the voters who put them in office. Instead of cutting government spending, they have joined forces with the Democrats to blow up the budget. Just like they’ve always accused Democrats of doing, they are putting spending on the government credit card, expecting future generations to pay the interest and make up the balance.
In 2017, the Republicans had the majority in the House and the Senate, and a Republican president controlled the Executive Branch.
Surely, if there was a time when they could cut spending and begin paying off the interest on the debt to spare future generations economic hardships, that was it. That shouldn’t have been too much to ask.
Apparently, it was. The national debt has increased to $28 trillion since 2017 and there has been a return to trillion-dollar budget deficits.
The RINOS and Dems continue to sell out future generations.
Well done, everyone…well done indeed.
Ineptocracy
A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.