What a long six weeks it has been since my last post. Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock knows that much has transpired in those 42 days and not all of it can be addressed in a single blog post. Let’s focus on two topics, the Covid “relief” bill and the border crisis, seemingly unrelated matters. In a previous post (Covid-19 Checks) some simple math about the relief money was used to show that every citizen of this country (~ 330,000,000) could receive a $1,400 dollar check and the tab would be under 500 billion dollars. What passed, without any bipartisan support, was the Biden-endorsed, pork laden 1.9 trillion dollar monstrosity. The bill even limited the checks to only those under a certain income level, perhaps no high wage earners lost their jobs in the past year. All kidding aside, the bill directs only about 9 % of the funds for checks to actual citizens of this country to help pay bills. Just for a moment, think about that. Even if you round up to 10 %, nine out of every 10 dollars goes somewhere else. If kick-starting the economy and helping people get back up off the floor were so important, maybe 90 % of the funds should go to the people who need it, with the other 10 % going to other purposes, or pork projects. With some of the funds not even being scheduled to be spent for two or more years, is it unreasonable to question why it was so important to rush this bill through congress? Perhaps this wasn’t really all about the people was it? Finally, how is the country going to pay the bill?
Now to the border crisis. President Biden seems to have spent too much time during his “campaign” watching the film Field of Dreams with its famous line “Build it and They Will Come.” His version is slightly different, with his most famous, but unspoken in direct terms, line being “Open the Border and They Will Come.” Own it Mr. President, words matter, and your words inspired what is happening at the border, Covid-19 positive cases and all. To top it all off, restricting media access to the border is shameful. Compare the current level of media access to that during the previous administration. Really, just do a quick internet search and read some stories about the conditions at the border two or three years ago. Somehow the media had much better access to the situation, but now, under a new administration, many of those same outlets appear to be less than vigorous in their pursuit of the news.
