The Washington money question

"I can only imagine what this bill would have looked like with Biden as President, Nancy as Speaker, and Chuck as Senate leader. But who cares? It is only free money we are talking about, right? Our kids and grandies can fix this mess which we helped create." 

Question: How to you spend six months working on a Covid relief bill, and then when finished, have it be 6,000 pages long, with only six hours for those who are voting on it, review it? That seems to be the question of the week. Maybe the year. This monster bill, which last July was close to $3T, solves very little, and gives only a modicum of the relief which is needed. 

So, what is in this $900B POS? Not much. $1,200 for a married couple who make less than $150k/year. Some unemployment dollars. A provision which keeps landlords from foreclosing on renters who don't pay their rent. But how much was allocated for restaurants and bars, who are barely holding oy their fingernails? Nada, nothing, not a cent. Six months of screwing around with this thing, and businesses which traditionally don't ask for a penny of help, get nothing? Why so long Ms. Nancy?

First off, she wanted to help some of her big blue buddies who are mayors and governors of failing blue cities an states. The ones who are in fiscal distress, due to chronic overspending. The Republican Senators wanted none of that. Cheers to them on that point. But then they went to sleep, and allowed some raw pork to be added. Hold on for this one - and this is not all of it:

Food Distribution on Indian Reservations - $100M

National Endowment for the Arts - $75M

NASA - $60M

Education - $31M

Public Broadcasting - $75M

SSA Employee Productivity Programs - $300M

Museum Services - $50M

Department of State - $674M

USAID - $353M

Peace Corps - $88M

DOT - $31B

HUD - $17.4B

This is what drives normal taxpayers nuts. This was a Covid Relief Bill - not supposed to be an omnibus bill. But this is the way Washington does business. And citizens and patriots, buckle up for this news flash. Even though many Democrats lead the charge on this bizarre and reckless spending, many Republicans are willing partners in this taxpayer theft. In other words, this POS bill is an offspring of the swamp.

And this type of bill can happen in Trump's Washington. I can only imagine what this bill would have looked like with Biden as President, Nancy as Speaker, and Chuck as Senate leader. But who cares? It is only free money we are talking about, right? Our kids and grandies can fix this mess which we helped create.