Good. Why in the fuck are we spending all this money on foreign aid?
President Donald Trump suggested he would veto the massive $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress Tuesday night if significant changes weren’t made, including larger direct payments to Americans and the removal of “wasteful and unnecessary” foreign aid items.
Trump posted a video in which he railed against the aid package, focusing heavily on the massive foreign aid contents while demanding direct payments be increased from the current $600 to a least $2,000 for individuals or $4,000 for a couple.
“Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it,” Trump said in the video recorded at the White House. “It wasn’t their fault. It was China’s fault. Not their fault.”
But of course, Mitch McConnell wants an override:
“The Democrat leader and I have agreed to unanimous request as follows: The Senate will meet for pro forma sessions only until Dec. 29 when we will return to session,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said from the Senate floor. “In the event that President Trump does elect to veto this bipartisan bill, it appears the House may choose to return after the holidays to set up a vote to consider the veto … In the event that the president has vetoed the bill, and the House has voted to override the veto, the Senate would have the opportunity to process a veto override at that time.”
Jesus Christ, the national debt is over 27 Trillion dollars, and these fuckers waste most of our tax money on pork.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Paul (R-Ky.), true to his fiscal conservatism, railed against the federal government spending money it doesn’t have — and Republicans voting for something they claim to oppose:
The monstrous spending bill presented today is not just a deficits-don’t-matter disaster. It is everything Republicans say they don’t believe in.
This bill is free money for everyone. Proponents don’t care if you’re fully employed or own your own house or own your own business. Free money for everyone, they cry.
And yet, if free money were the answer, if money really grew on trees, why not give more free money? Why not give it out all the time? Why stop at $600 a person? Why not $1,000, why not $2,000?
Maybe these new free-money Republicans should join the everybody-get-a-guaranteed-income caucus. Why not $20,000 a year, why not $30,000?
If we can print up money with impunity, why not do it? The Treasury can just keep printing money – that is, until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that the dollar no longer has value.
To so-called conservatives who are quick to identify the socialism of Democrats, if you vote for this spending monstrosity, you are no better. When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul and you abandon forever any semblance of moral or fiscal integrity.
The GOP has abandoned the principles in the United States Constitution of limited government and fiscal restraint. We are now saddled with an astronomical debt and their still spending like a drunken sailor on shore leave. The least they can do is return some of that money to the taxpayers.