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Biden’s Hail Mary Budget is Just Another Anchor Baby

Posted by M. C. on March 23, 2024

But, ever your humble(sic) servant, I endeavored to persevere and what I saw was typically horrifying, as always. And my quick conclusions were that this budget is a political wish list of a dying party to buy votes however and wherever they can.

It does nothing but remind me that Harry Browne was right all those years ago when he said that all government really does is break your legs and then hand you a crutch. While you are limping along on that crutch they say, ‘See! Without us you wouldn’t be able to walk.”

Author: Tom Luongo

Last week I was contacted by Sputnik News to give some comments on “President” Biden’s $7.3 trillion budget proposal. To be honest, having to read up on what was in the budget proposal was enough to ruin my day before it even began.

But, ever your humble(sic) servant, I endeavored to persevere and what I saw was typically horrifying, as always. And my quick conclusions were that this budget is a political wish list of a dying party to buy votes however and wherever they can.

The party I’m speaking about isn’t the Democrats, it’s the Uniparty that has the Capitol under foreign control. Because nothing I see in this budget is for America’s prosperity. It is ultimately capital destructive and feeds into the needs of all of America’s enemies, foreign and domestic.

$7.3 trillion paid for with more ‘soak the rich’ taxes is throwing napalm grenades on an already burning fire. And it serves to further sell today’s Americans out for tomorrow’s anchor babies currently being invited across the border at record numbers, given billions in tax dollars to shelter them in our homes and hotels while forcibly denying that they are doing any of it.

It’s not just perverse folks, it’s intentional, with the ultimate end to drive capital away from the US towards other parts of the world. For our friends in Europe it’s clearly a mechanism to make us as bad as them.

Every day in Brussels is another day to vandalize the people of Europe and reinforce who wields real power. Every ludicrous headline I see come out of France or Germany or the Netherlands somehow always looks similar to some brain-dead idea floated by the Biden administration.

The latest, this morning, is Joe’s further assault on car manufacturers by radically upping the restrictions on emissions to the point of outlawing internal combustion vehicles.

This go-round, Biden is “preparing to roll out the toughest-ever” emissions restrictions, according to Bloomberg

The report says that the Environmental Protection Agency is poised to implement emissions limits that (Biden thinks) could significantly boost electric vehicle sales, requiring EVs to constitute about two-thirds of new car and light truck sales by 2032, a sharp increase from less than 10% last year. 

Unless, of course, people stop buying new cars. 

This is yet another example of the desperate need for the Supreme Court to take up the Chevron Deference and strike it down. The agencies should not be making law. That’s Congress’ job.

And I don’t care if Congress is allergic to doing its job, new emission regulations should not be in the hands of unelected bureaucrats run by chiefs who are chosen by the current political party.

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Why the most expensive military ever still can’t win a war | The Daily Bell

Posted by M. C. on November 15, 2018

At least $6.5 TRILLION in Pentagon spending cannot be tracked. There are no receipts for what the money was spent on, or where it went. And this does not include the budget items they deliberately keep secret for black-ops.

Among the budget items that can be tracked are jaw-dropping price tags like $720 million on late fees for unreturned shipping containers, and $5 billion worth of unneeded warehoused spare parts.

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/why-the-most-expensive-military-ever-still-cant-win-a-war/

By Joe Jarvis

A friend who used to work in the Pentagon told me about the end of year budget meetings he had to attend. There, military personnel would frantically brainstorm ideas on how to spend the rest of their budgets. If they didn’t spend every cent, next year’s budget would be cut.

“Popcorn makers?” someone suggested. “Or perhaps some sort of group outings, to an event or a show.”

“Why don’t we return the extra money, since we clearly don’t need it,” my friend suggested.

The way he tells it, the tension in the room was palpable. Who was this asshole suggesting that they don’t use their entire budget?

I can’t remember what they decided to spend the money on. But they definitely used it. He said he would often come across unused equipment in the Pentagon that seemed out of place… and conclude that it must have been to eat up budget surpluses.

This anecdote shouldn’t be surprising. The military only seems to pinch pennies when it comes to taking caring of veterans who have sacrificed their physical and mental health for the Pentagon… Read the rest of this entry »

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