December 22, 2024

Republican Betrayal

I have not posted for some time. Summer has been busy with a family vacation and some medical issues with close family members. Everyone is doing well and I am back to posting. I am also going to get more aggressive about finding ways to get this blog broadcast more broadly. I am open to suggestions. One of the the ways, I have been told by a marketing expert, is to get back onto Facebook to promote it. I left Facebook at the beginning of the year due to my disgust with Mark Zuckerberg and Big Tech in general trying to control our thoughts and speech. However, if I can use it and be one more conservative voice, I’ll do it. While there are many more famous and better writers, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and others out there, I think the more voices that speak the truth the more people will hear it.

Today I want to use the current “bi-partisan” infrastructure bill to help differentiate between conservatism and the Republican Party. Republicans, too often, talk like conservatives, but then spend like liberals. Last Saturday17 Republican Senators, including Indiana’s Todd Young, voted to overcome any possible veto of a $1 trillion so called infrastructure bill. While they say much of it has been funded by unspent China plague relief (why in the heck did they approve that deficit spending if it was not going to be spent?) There is still hundreds of millions of dollars of new deficit spending. Not only can we not afford more debt, but this bill, according to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Model, will create no economic growth at any point in the next 30 years and will add at least $351 billion in deficits and create $135 billion in new taxes. The bill, which is 2700 pages long meaning no senator has read all of it, includes goodies for the green new deal, gender equity and other non-infrastructure items. Worse yet, according to Pelosi, Schumer and Biden, it creates a speed ramp for their even bigger, $3.5 trillion “human” infrastructure bill, which Nancy Pelosi says must be approved by the Senate before she will even consider this $1 trillion bill. In other words, the Republicans were played as suckers. This bill was then approved by a vote of 69-31. Interestingly, Indiana’s Todd Young voted against the bill that he helped craft and assured it’s passage by helping to defeat a possible filibuster. Now he says that he cannot support the deficit spending contained in the bill that, again, he helped to draft. He learned very quickly how unpopular his support of this bill was amongst Indiana voters. If he thinks he can have his cake and eat it too, he has a rude awakening coming. Myself and other voters will be working to get him out in the primary next year. Unlike our other senator, conservative businessman Mike Braun, Todd Young is no conservative. He certainly does not understand economics, but, like most politicians of both parties, he believes he can take our tax dollars and bribe us into voting for him with it. Repeat, he is using our money as though it were his. He does not represent his constituents or work on our behalf, he just like to be in a position of power.

This bill is a complete fraud. Even if it did primarily help with real infrastructure projects, which it does not, the timing of it is terrible. We do not need pump in another $1 trillion in deficit spending into an already over heated economy with runaway inflation we have not seen since the early 80’s. Furthermore, who wants it? While I hear people talking about Covid, the border crisis, crime, CRT and other topics, I have heard no one clamoring for more spending on infrastructure or anything else. If there are needs, they should be handled by state and local governments, by those who understand the local needs best and where money tends to be spent somewhat more efficiently. Conservatives understand this, too many Republican politicians do not. These Republicans, like Democrats, tell us only they know what is best for us stupid voters and then proceed to spend our money like drunken sailors. We have got to rid ourselves of these phony, self proclaimed conservatives and reform the Republican party to make it a conservative party believing in small government, security and the dignity of the individual.