Month: July 2021

COVID Thriving on Mistrust of Bureaucracy

Biden, Harris, and Fauchi at vaccine commitment signing

It’s not misinformation; it’s mistrust. COVID is thriving in America because Americans don’t trust leadership from the White House, the Congress, the medical elite, and the mainstream media. And why should we? Generally speaking, the bureaucratic leadership of this nation has lied, flip-flopped, schemed, and failed to act to the point of having lost credibility with their people. Today, everything that comes down from the government, health organizations, and mainstream media is instantly rejected by most of the country. If you are wondering why people are not getting vaccinated, not wearing masks, and not avoiding large gatherings, look no further than our government and medical leaders as well as mainstream media who have proven themselves untrustworthy.

Following four years of false accusation of Russian collusion, a baseless impeachment, and Democratic intransigence, President Biden caved to the extreme left with over 60 executive orders in a matter of days. This was after a campaign centered on national unity and being bipartisan. He immediately opened our southern border, then declared it wasn’t open when illegal immigration became an out-of-control crisis and a portal for narcotics, human trafficking, and COVID. Biden has said he was arrested in South Africa, had a full law school scholarship and graduated with three degrees, his helicopter was forced down by Afghan extremists, he was a coal miner, he knew nothing about Hunter’s business dealings, he used to drive an 18-wheeler, and new voter integrity laws are “Jim Crow” voter suppression efforts–all lies. After four years of Trump’s almost weekly, highly transparent press briefings and news conferences, we now rarely see the president open to the press–everything is super secret.

Congress has responded to COVID with numerous laws and proclamations that they don’t obey themselves. Speaker Pelosi rejected the Republicans named to the January 6th Capitol incursion investigation committee because they supported Trump and would ask the hard questions. This now partisan committee was deemed essential to get to the bottom of the January 6th extreme right incident while last year’s many riots by leftist Antifa and Black Lives Matter get hardly any attention.

The CDC first announced that masks were unnecessary for COVID, then they were necessary, then required, then not needed for those vaccinated, then mandated for even those vaccinated. Dr. Fauchi assured America that COVID originated naturally, and the Wuhan lab source was a far-right conspiracy theory. Then, when the evidence became overwhelming, he decided the lab was the most likely source. Now it looks like his organization may have actually helped fund the lab. The CDC and the surgeon general now urge that small children wear masks in schools. But there is not an official word about the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who are arriving with COVID and being sent all over the country. News media are not allowed to visit the holding facilities for these international criminals.

The left-wing bias of the mainstream news media has little semblance of integrity and credibility and should now be classified as comedy and satire. The problem of misinformation is not social media; it is public television and internet news. Mainstream media is all over the January 6th incursion into the Capitol building where one person was tragically killed by a policeman following a Trump rally. Over 500 participants have been charged. Conversely, the mainstream media barely covered the many 2020 deadly riots by leftists in several major cities with burning buildings, bombings, looting, and take-over of government facilities. Twenty-five people were killed in those anarchist incidents, mostly by the guns of the rioters. America’s angst with left-leaning leadership is manifested in the tanking ratings of liberal CNN compared with conservative Fox News. Fox continues to hold the top position with 1.19 million total day viewers to CNN’s third-place 596,000–an almost two to one advantage in viewer confidence for Fox. Americans distrust liberal news about leftist leaders.

These are just minuscule samplings of the constant bombardment of lies, deceptions, and hypocrisies we are subjected to from our national leadership and media. Volumes could be written on the dishonesty of elected and appointed leaders who determine our fate daily. Then they tell us what to do in response to COVID and wonder why they are getting such push-back. If we had evidenced-based reason to trust our leaders, I believe we would have kicked COVID out of the country months ago. Skepticism and conspiracy theories are not born out of ignorance of the American people. They are born out of mistrust of leaders who have proven themselves untrustworthy.

I have been fully vaccinated and have done my share of mask wearing. I believe if everyone had done so, with their doctor’s approval, we would probably be victorious over COVID now. However, I honor and empathize with those who have chosen not to take the steps I did, and I completely support their right to choose their own health actions. However, I am also totally convinced that, if we had more integrity in our national leadership, most of those who have chosen not to follow their guidance and rules would have been much more inclined to trust and follow them. We Americans must stop the foolishness at the top. As we have witnessed, it can be a matter of life and death. We must think long and hard about who we allow to lead us and who we remove from office. We have the power at the voting booth. Remember all this in next year’s elections.

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Biden’s Spending Plan Would Bankrupt America and Usher In Socialism

Big Spending Biden

In less than six months in office, President Biden has become the most fiscally irresponsible president in our nation’s history. After our government dished out over $6 trillion (1 1/2 times the annual budget) for largely misguided Covid-19 relief, Biden has frantically pushed for another $4.5 trillion in what he terms his “Build Back Better” plan. This would be $10.5 trillion added to the normal budget cycle. Most of the future deficit spending would be in support of climate change initiatives and socialist entitlement programs. Here is an abbreviated look at this insane spending.

Biden’s vision of grandeur sees himself as the new Franklin D. Roosevelt with a type of “New Deal” plan. Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan is three-fold: American Rescue Plan, American Jobs Plan, and American Families Plan. The American Rescue Plan was funded by Congress last March in the amount of $1.9 trillion making the total price tag for Covid relief a whopping $6 trillion. That included three stimulus checks paying individuals a total of $3,200. Much of the rest of the relief money went to pork projects which had nothing to do with Covid. The remaining Jobs Plan and Families Plan would have a combined cost of $4.5 trillion.

The American Jobs Plan, often called the infrastructure plan, was designed to fund much more than what is typically understood as infrastructure like roads, bridges, airports, etc. It redefined infrastructure to include clean energy, electric cars, workplace programs, and other climate change and social initiatives. After weeks of partisan haggling, the Republicans prevailed in cutting the proposed $2.6 trillion projects to those improving real infrastructure at a cost of $1.2 trillion, most of which was transfer of money already approved for other programs. This bipartisan agreement was accepted reluctantly by the president. However, in announcing the agreement, Biden proclaimed that the American Families Plan had to be a part of it. Biden’s staff quickly convinced him to walk back that statement. Then, Speaker Pelosi jumped on the bandwagon saying the House would insist on a families bill concurrent with the jobs bill in an overall reconciliation bill which I’ll explain later. And the battle goes on.

The American Rescue Plan is water under the bridge–massive debt already incurred. The American Jobs Plan will probably get passed as a needed infrastructure project at a relatively reasonable cost, even though we can’t afford it. But the thing that should keep every American awake at night is the remaining American Families Plan. It is purely and simply a socialism movement toward the most widespread entitlement give-away our nation has ever imagined. At an official cost of another $1.8 trillion (some analysts predict over $2.5 trillion) this plan would have 57% of two-parent families and 80% of single-parent families receiving government benefits and assistance. The plan includes free community college, increased college Pell grants, three months of government paid leave for everyone with a new baby or family illness, free child care, free pre-K school, all parents with minor children would get an annual cash payment of $3,000 to $3,600 per child depending on age, subsidized health insurance for almost everyone, plus substantial increases in the food stamp program and low income housing.

President Biden’s talking-points answer to how we could take on such a monumental national debt is to squeeze more taxes out of corporations and the wealthy. That strategy has been denounced by almost every budget analyst in the country. If every corporation and rich person in America were taxed into poverty, it would not begin to pay for such financial commitment as our nation would be incurring. In reality, the middle class would pay much higher taxes under the Biden plan. And our national debt, presently $28 trillion, will continue to skyrocket. Interest alone on that debt is currently $1.3 billion a DAY, and interest rates are rising rapidly.

The only defense conservative Senators have in curbing this squander is the filibuster which requires 60 votes to pass most bills. However, the Senate liberals have a trick play for that. There is a parliamentary procedure where a non-budget-cycle bill can be contained in a separate annual budget bill called “reconciliation” which is filibuster proof and decided by a majority vote. Normally, the components of the Build Back Better plan would be subject to Senate filibuster. But, if they are rolled into the 2022 budget reconciliation bill, a simple majority would send the whole thing to the president for signing. The Democrats are so desperate to pass the American Families Bill, they will likely try to use the reconciliation weapon. If the Democrats’ reconciliation ploy works, they would probably tack on billions, if not trillions, worth of additional social programs to the bill. The only hope then is for at least one Democrat in the 50-50 Senate to vote against the bill.

A clear objective of the Build Back Better Plan is to push more Americans into big government dependency. As more people become dependent on the government’s Democratic sponsored programs, more people will vote Democrat. As Democrats become more and more of a majority, they will enact more government programs. It would be a death spiral into socialism, the ultimate goal of many Democrats in Washington.

The 19th century French diplomat, Alexis de Tocqueville said, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” You were very wise, Mr. Tocqueville.

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