American Consequences - April 2021

By Trish Regan

There’s a familiar chorus being sung and broadcast by the Biden administration right now: “ We need more stimulus .” STAMPEDE

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The introduction of the infrastructure plan indicates how far Left they want to take the country... $400 billion of the $2.3 trillion requested will go to “elderly care,” while $213 billion will go toward “affordable housing” projects. A reasonable person would ask, “Does that count as infrastructure?” And a reasonable answer would be, “No, not really!” Though when it comes to socialist-style spending, there’s a bankruptcy in logic. Instead, Brian Deese, who ran the Green Energy Division at BlackRock (the world’s largest asset manager, handling enough capital to rival the U.S. GDP), offered a convoluted explanation about the stimulus bills’ A reasonable person would ask, “Does that count as infrastructure?” And a reasonable answer would be, “No, not really!”

The justification? Our government needs more money because our economy is that broken. In fact, it’s so broken that we need to enact the most staggering spending program since FDR. “The economy and virus are spiraling downward,” said Brian Deese, head of the Biden National Economic Council, in a Fox News interview Easter Sunday. This came just two days after the nation learned an astonishing 916,000 jobs were added in the previous month – bringing the unemployment rate down to an impressive 6.0%. But that jobs report doesn’t quite fit the current Administration’s narrative – not when they’re trying to “remake” the American economy in their warped vision. And if they get their way, it’s time for a new chorus: Goodbye capitalism, hello socialism . SOCIALISM, USA With $1.9 trillion in stimulus spending already on the books, the Biden Administration keeps looking for more (and more, and more) taxpayer dollars to put toward its big, woke projects.

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