will “revitalize manufacturing, invest in basic research and science, shore up supply chains,” and otherwise do what private enterprise has always done better than government can. Most of the economic health issues that the American Jobs Plan addresses are issues of robust health. Biden is a doctor telling us we’re too trim and fit and need to start drinking, smoking, and overeating and getting our blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol up. Speaking of which, there are the remaining 26.5 pages of hogwash about letting every governmental pig out of every programmatic sty to cause an immense pork stampede trampling the nation on its way to feed at the taxation trough. Biden seems to want an economy that’s frail and sickly. The American Jobs Plan might do the trick. One of its top bullet points is... Build, preserve, and retrofit more than two million homes and commercial buildings... There are commercial buildings sitting empty in nearly every shopping mall in America. And, as for those homes, has Biden ever been inside a public housing project? Sorry about the elevator being out of order again. And mind the stairs... Urine, empty crack vials, and expended 9mm Glock cartridges can make for slippery footing.
government can provide conditions in which an economy builds itself ) is a serious and complex proposition – too much so to be considered here. But economic facts are economic facts no matter what any White House “Fact Sheet” proclaims. And we divorce ourselves from facts at our peril. The idea that a government can “reimagine” a “new” economy is a foolish and stupid proposition. Try going to the person to whom you’re married and telling him or her you’re “reimagining a new spouse.” What fun! Speaking of which, there are the remaining 26.5 pages of hogwash about letting every governmental pig out of every programmatic sty to cause an immense pork stampede trampling the nation on its way to feed at the taxation trough. A scolding lament is made: Public domestic investment as a share of the economy has fallen by more than 40% since the 1960s. Has it occurred to any idiot at the White House that this might be a good thing? Over the past 60 years, while government control over the economy was falling by more than 40%, the economy was growing by more than 575%. Coincidence? Would Biden like to see the -40% and +575% figures reversed? I hope not... I don’t think Joe Biden is an evil man, just a blockhead. America’s economy is already in brisk recovery, though this is apparently news to Biden, who claims the American Jobs Plan
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