Spiraling Spending Spree, Great Scott, and Rooting for Rudy’s Ruin: The Week in Review PF Whalen
May 1, 2021
Headline #1: Biden Addresses Congress, Announces More Spending
On Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden made his first address to a joint session of Congress, during which he made several predictable assertions and unveiled his plan for a few more trillion dollars in spending.
Thoughts and Observations:
Full disclosure: I did not watch Biden’s entire speech; I couldn’t. I probably watched about half of it then watched some baseball, but I read the entire transcript. It was unnerving to watch. Biden has never been that sharp, but during his prime he was at least articulate and polished. About 5 minutes into Wednesday’s speech, watching him slur his words and botch the speech repeatedly, the address became disturbing. Politics aside, seriously – It’s scary to consider that Joe Biden is the leader of the Free World when he comes across as unqualified to lead the local Sanitation Department.
Biden was sharpest at the beginning of his speech, and that was probably when he was most dishonest and predictable. Biden repeatedly took a bow for “improvements,” many of which he’s had nothing to do with; particularly regarding the COVID pandemic. Joe Biden taking credit for defeating COVID is like a second-rate tambourine player coming on stage for the second encore of a rock concert, then shooing the rest of the band offstage as he soaks up the applause. It’s absurd.
Quotes from Biden regarding COVID included this gem, “After I promised 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots in 100 days – we will have provided over 220 million COVID shots in 100 days.” On January 20th when Biden took office, we were already vaccinating one million per day. Therefore, we were already on target for vaccinating 100 million in 100 days before he was even sworn in. It was like promising the country that the weather is going to be warmer this summer. It seems ridiculous that anyone would fall for this slop, but apparently millions do.
One of the main takeaways from the speech was the additional $1.8 trillion spending proposal for “Families and Education.” Key aspects of the proposal include free childcare, free preschool, and free community college; along with trillions of dollars in tax increases for wealthy Americans. None of those entitlements will be free, obviously, and those tax increases won’t generate half of the revenue he’s proposing. Joe Biden is taking the term “Tax-&-Spend Liberal” to a whole new level.
In Biden’s first 100 days, he’s now called for, or implemented, $1.9 trillion for so-called “COVID Relief,” $2.3 trillion for so-called “Infrastructure,” and now $1.8 trillion for so-called “Families and Education.” Keep in mind, this is all spending in addition to our normal budget. If Biden stays in office for the full 1,461 days of his presidency, and if his spending spree trend continues at this rate, we can expect for Biden to spend an additional $87.6 trillion of money that doesn’t exist as he utterly destroys our economy and our future.
One of the more disappointing aspects of the speech was the mask-wearing by Republican legislators in attendance. We have to assume the vast majority of them have been vaccinated, in which case wearing a mask is totally useless. Mask-wearing for the vaccinated is not about safety or COVID, it’s about capitulation. Republicans, can you please take a stand, on anything? Can you please stand up for yourselves and for us? Can you please show some balls? Please?
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