By Nancy Thorner -
As Joe Biden gloats over the legislative victory that Nancy Pelosi and 13 House Republicans have finally handed him with his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill – a major step toward implementing Biden’s socialist “Build Back Better” agenda – Biden and administration officials continue to blast out the false claim that the much larger “Build Back Better” budget reconciliation spending package will have a “zero dollar” cost.
However, a key Democrat US senator, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), signaled on Twitter that he’s loath to pass the larger bill anytime soon. Manchin has said he fears the package would add to the national debt.
“By all accounts, the threat posed by record inflation to the American people is not ‘transitory’ and is instead getting worse,” Manchin wrote. “From the grocery store to the gas pump, Americans know the inflation tax is real and DC can no longer ignore the economic pain Americans feel every day.''
What about inflation?
"Inflation over the past 12 months surged to a 31-year high as rising prices undercut President Joe Biden and hurt consumers despite other evidence the U.S. economy is rebounding from the pandemic.”
“The consumer price index increased by 0.9% in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday, leaving inflation 6.2% higher than a year earlier. It's the largest 12-month increase since 1990.”
The reasons for inflation include supply-chain breakdowns, labor shortages and a sudden burst of spending after widespread lock downs.
For weeks, the White House has downplayed rising inflation as a temporary issue, predicting consumer prices will fall in 2022 and spotlighting an inflation slowdown that occurred in September.
In a statement made on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, Biden called reversing the inflation increase "a top priority for me."
Biden also pointed to his recently approved $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which he will sign into law Monday, arguing it will bring costs down further by dedicating money to modernize supply chains.'
Infrastructure bill's content
The “infrastructure” bill is a regulatory disaster that will totally waste what little “stimulus” was in the bill:
At more than 2,700 pages long, H.R. 3684 would spend $1.2 trillion. However, only nine percent of of that would actually go toward infrastructure, with the remainder going toward leftist programs and the pet projects of lawmakers. Specifically, H.R. 3684 includes the following radical provisions:
- unconstitutionally mandates that states create carbon reduction programs, with the federal government choosing which plans to accept or reject;
- creates a pilot program for a mileage tax, which tracks how many miles individuals drive, something that would infringe on Americans’ privacy, penalize drivers in low-density areas, and make driving too costly for some Americans;
- requires car companies to equip all vehicles with “advanced alcohol monitoring systems“;
- allows the federal government to bypass “Buy American” rules, promoting outsourcing to countries such as Communist China;
- enables mass migration by funding border crossings and migrant “welcome centers” while including $0 for border wallconstruction;
- defines “gender identity” as a protected class and uses the word “equity” 64 times;
- enacts racial quotas for broadband spending;
- rewards states that support and facilitate illegal migration to the United States, also for broadband spending;
- ends Amtrak’s policies/goals of creating a profit and seeking to minimize costs;
- includes multiple radical climate-change provisions, including over $50 billion to protect against “climate change” and $21 billion for “environmental remediation.” Additionally, H.R. 3684 will “modernize” the power grid to accommodate “green” energy.
Among other provisions, H.R. 3684 includes $39 billion for public transportation, $15 billion altogether for electric transportation, $65 billion for broadband, a $30 billion cryptocurrency tax.
One of the strongest voices speaking out against H.R. 3684 was former President Donald Trump. Stating it was “Very sad that the RINOs in the House and Senate gave Biden and Democrats a victory on the ‘Non-Infrastructure’ Bill.”
H.R. 3684 was supposed to fail; six far-left Democrats voted against it as they demanded a simultaneous vote on the even more radical “Build Back Better Act.” Having a narrow three-vote majority in the House, House Democratic leadership was unable to pass the bill without these members’ support.
However, 13 House Republicans saved H.R. 3684 by voting for it. They include Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), David McKinley (R-W.Va.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), and Don Young (R-Alaska).
“Build Back Better” budget reconciliation spending package
The second bill being pushed by Democrats is H.R. 5376, titled the “Build Back Better Act” after an Orwellian UN program. It contains even more extreme provisions than H.R. 3684. At 1,684 pages, Democrats claim H.R. 5376 costs $1.85 trillion (down from the original $3.5 trillion they had pushed for). However, according to a Wharton study, the bill would actually cost $2.42 trillion. Furthermore, it includes $1.48 trillion in tax increases.
A nation in great peril
Our nation is in deep peril is expressed so well in an open letter more than 120 retired flag officers signed warning of Biden's 'tyrannical' policies. Even though dated May 11, 2021, the ensuing months have not lessened the tenor of the letter.
“Our Nation is in deep peril. We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776.” “The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty.”
Among other things, “the letter expressed support for measures to ensure election integrity and warned that the Biden administration “has launched a full-blown assault on our Constitutional rights in a dictatorial manner,” referencing the “more than 50 Executive Order” the president has signed. The letter stated that the “population control actions such as excessive lock downs, school and business closures, and most alarming, censorship of written and verbal expression are all direct assaults on our fundamental Rights.”
It also identified a number of other “national security issues,” including “open borders,” which “jeopardize national security by increasing human trafficking, drug cartels, terrorists entry … and humanitarian crises” and China, “the greatest external threat to America.”
Food for thought
Only time will tell the direction of this nation will take. This is not the time to sit back and just let things unfold, hoping for the best.
Let your voices be heard through contacting your legislators and talking with your friends. Remaining silent will only ensure that this once proud and great nation will accede to the Socialist/Marxist agenda of the Democrat Party.
