This latest “stimulus” bill coming out of Congress is a total POS. This country has waited nine damn months so Pakistan could get $10 million for gender programs. The list is nauseating
- $169,739,000 to Vietnam, including $19 million to remediate dioxins (page 1476).
- Unspecified funds to “continue support for not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Kabul, Afghanistan that are accessible to both women and men in a coeducational environment” (page 1477).
- $198,323,000 to Bangladesh, including $23.5 million to support Burmese refugees and $23.3 million for “democracy programs” (page 1485).
- $130,265,000 to Nepal for “development and democracy programs” (page 1485).
- Pakistan: $15 million for “democracy programs” and $10 million for “gender programs” (page 1486).
- Sri Lanka: Up to $15 million “for the refurbishing of a high endurance cutter,” which is a type of patrol boat (page 1489).
- $505,925,000 to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to “address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied, undocumented minors to the United States” (pages 1490-1491).
- $461,375,000 to Colombia for programs related to counternarcotics and human rights (pages 1494-1496).
- $74.8 million to the “Caribbean Basin Security Initiative” (page 1498).
- $33 million “for democracy programs for Venezuela” (page 1498).
- Unspecified amount to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Curacao, and Trinidad and Tobago “for assistance for communities in countries supporting or otherwise impacted by refugees from Venezuela” (page 1499).
- $132,025,000 “for assistance for Georgia” (page 1499).
- $453 million “for assistance for Ukraine” (page 1500).
It contains billions to secure the borders of foreign countries while shutting down the wall
As part of the more than 5,590-page spending bill, the deal provides the country of Jordan with “up to $500,000,000” in taxpayer money “to provide assistance to the Government of Jordan to support the armed forces of Jordan and to enhance security along its borders.”
Likewise, the bill gives $250 million in taxpayer money to the countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman for “enhanced border security.” Specifically in Lebanon, the bill gives taxpayer money to “secure the borders” of Lebanon.
We are told this is a “COVID Relief” bill. That’s f**king ridiculous. Nine months have passed since the last “relief” bill. In that time, Congressional members have been paid more than $100,000 each. In the mean time, restaurants and businesses have been ordered shut down, but those a**holes in Congress continue to be paid no matter what.
Both parties are utterly contemptible for forcing this garbage down our throats, but let’s take a second to remember what happened.
democrats have blocked a relief bill for months.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders admitted that fellow Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, were responsible for delaying urgently needed coronavirus relief by walking away from the White House’s offer of a $1.8 trillion coronavirus package.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Monday, the socialist two-time presidential candidate noted Pelosi’s hypocrisy in endorsing a smaller bipartisan $908 million deal last week after rejecting the twice-as-large proposal from President Trump in October.
“Democrats walked away from that deal because they wanted $2.2 trillion,” Tapper said.
“That’s right!” Sanders (I-Vt.) responded, confirming it was Democrats, not Republicans, who were to blame for months of inaction.
“They walked away from $1.8 trillion, was that a mistake?” Tapper asked.
“That’s what I’m saying. That’s exactly what I’m saying,” Sanders said.
“Here was a proposal much, much larger. Democrats said, ‘No, that’s not good enough,’” he continued.
Donald Trump twice asked for a standalone relief bill- back in October.
President Trump took to Twitter Wednesday morning to reiterate to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi his desire to sign a standalone bill to provide $1,200 stimulus checks to Americans — as the federal government remains locked in a stalemate over coronavirus relief negotiations.
Just 10 hours after first mentioning Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a tweet Tuesday evening, when he expressed interest in a focused relief deal that would just cover the checks, the commander-in-chief circled back.
“Move Fast, I Am Waiting To Sign!” Trump wrote in a retweet of his earlier message, tagging the California Democrat’s account.
“If I am sent a Stand Alone Bill for Stimulus Checks ($1,200), they will go out to our great people IMMEDIATELY. I am ready to sign right now. Are you listening Nancy?” the president wrote late Tuesday in his initial post on the matter.
F**k Americans, said Pelosi. She wanted gender studies for Pakistan.
In addition, Pelosi said she has no qualms about rejecting the Trump administration’s offer before the election that was more than double the $900 billion proposal gaining steam in Congress that lawmakers now hope to pass.
“That was not a mistake, it was a decision, and it has taken us to a place where we can do the right thing without other, shall we say, considerations in the legislation that we don’t want,” Pelosi expounded. “The fact is, I’m very proud of where we are.”
The political reality is that while Democrats held firm at $2.2 trillion in the runup to the election, and Senate Republicans refused to budge above $500 billion, the Trump administration’s highest offer of $1.9 trillion was just $300 billion short.
Not every democrat was pleased
“We should’ve taken the deal. We should’ve done the deal, 100 percent we should have. I said it at the time,” Congressman Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), a leader of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, told Newsweek last month. “It’s outrageous that we didn’t. I think it was really foolish… I wish we could get that deal today.”
She rejected $1200 in relief for Americans months ago for $600 now. Why?
“That is a total game changer: a new president and a vaccine,” the California Democrat told reporters on Friday.
She didn’t want Trump to have a pre-election victory and is going to credit Biden for the vaccines.
Listen to this a**hole ramble
Catch this load of manure spilling out of her mouth
Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it! https://t.co/Th4sztrpLV
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) December 23, 2020
Her sheer audacity and condescension is staggering
BREAKING: #Pelosi says $600 is a “significant” amount for working families.#LetThemEatCake #TrillionForBillionaires pic.twitter.com/PjcIV9W1JX
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 21, 2020
Pelosi is a flaming arrogant jackass liar. She lies non-stop. Thing is, she lies because she knows the fools who vote for her are going to believe anything she says. She lies because the MFM won’t challenge her lies. But she alone is not to blame. McConnell is to blame for this. Everyone who voted for this POS is to blame. This is not a bill for COVID relief. It’s crony relief. This is a bill to help stuff the pockets of Congress and its pals. Americans are at the bottom of this food chain.
Chef Andrew Gruel:
We are giving $4,728,500,000 to 9 random countries while we suffer at home. We could have given $100K to 47,285 low wage American workers and changed their lives and everyone around them forever. Think about that.
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) December 22, 2020
The size of the bill is $900 billion. 328 million times $600 = 196.8 billion. That’s less than $200 billion for direct American relief. More than $700 billion is for pet projects, illegals and domestic and foreign pork. You should spit in the faces of any Congressperson you see because they’re sh*tting on you.
Trump will have none of this.
I have friends tell me that Trump only thinks of himself to which I routinely call BS. Right now he’s one of the very few in DC who give a damn about you. The rest of Congress is stimulating itself.
This legislation is atrocious but $600 can buy a few pints of Pelosi’s elite ice cream.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
MOAB. Mother of all bills. We bought the Louisiana Purchase with three pages.
Gross. Unsustainable. Sick. Now about those treadmill shrimp…
We got the best Congress bribes can buy!
I bet not one single Republican asked for $40 million for the closed Kennedy Center or $10 million for gender in Pakistan. While people struggle to survive thanks largely to DEMOCRAT shut downs, they sat on their fat asses trying to think of ANYTHING they could add to this bill, bloating it to 6000 pages of BULLSHIT. Absolutely unforgiveable… just shoving the fact they care more about non-Americans than suffering American citizens in our FACES.
Yeah, AJ, Greg, John, Marlowe, Miller… THAT’S what you support.
Time to kick out the Democrat Party. They no longer support or adhere to the Constitution of the United States, and therefore do not benefit from its protection.
As they are much more of a minority than their disinformation outlets struggle to conjure, it would be simple to make city-states for Democrats… Eventually rejoining the Union after they fail.
@Nathan Blue: Already happening in NY 34 billion in wealth has moved out while low income move in. Once working office buildings, generating tax dollars might have to be renovated into low income subsidized housing. Never to learn from mistakes.
Hell I dont believe that the 600 buck thing was the Show stopper it was WTF else is in this monster that took 9 months to birth. Trump has no illusions about those that toss around billions and trillions are close to sane.
Here’s the quote that Pelosi’s said as she dismissed the $1,000 and $2,000 bonuses that legions of American workers got as a result of Trump’s tax reform: “In terms of the bonus, those are crumbs that are going to workers.”
But with the media to block truth for them, the Left can keep twisting history at will.
Now, a mere $600 is “significant.”
All that for all those other nations but not one red cent for our Vets These rotten Democrats belong in jail
Hey lets contract Dominion to make ATMs when we deposit our stimulus checks we will all be millionaires, and congress members and democrat election officials bank accounts will be overdraft.!
@Deplorable Me:
Has it occurred to you that arts and culture relate to a segment of the U.S. economy that has been hit very hard as a result of the pandemic? I’m also inclined to think that foreign spending is probably calculated to be in our own long-term geopolitical interest. What happens elsewhere affects us here. Dollars put in foreign hands also has the effect of boosting the purchase of U.S. produced goods. In addition to extending our influence, it stimulates our own economy.
So what did the republicans ask for? They certainly negotiated for something, otherwise they wouldn’t have agreed to a bill with a $900 billion price tag being passed. Only six republican senators voted against it.
Trump likes to be against things. It’s a far easier sell than being for something. Add to the pitch, Hey, I would have given everybody $2,000! Wouldn’t you have liked that better?
@Greg: The proposed stimulus is an embarrassment to our nation and the Democrats proposing it are the biggest collection of corrupt and incompetent politicians this country has ever fielded.
Marxist Democrats must and will be ousted as the traitors they are.
Do you feel odd to find yourself in agreement with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Or the New York Times?
@Greg:
No, since these exist on taxpayer dollars anyway. Besides, the Kennedy Center got $25 million in the last aid bill, then laid off all the performers. How about we take care of those suffering FIRST before liberals who enjoy this bullshit feather their own nests? Has it occurred to you that the proven to be pointless lock downs (especially after the left wing terrorists destroyed anything gained by them) have DESTROYED LIVES and those people are who need and deserve the aid? No, obviously it didn’t. Because you, like all other liberals, have no idea what work is, how earning is done and what responsibility is.
At this point, who knows what Republicans think? One thing is for sure; With a thin majority in the Senate, it takes Democrats to get anything passed and all they have done is OBSTRUCT. Numerous clean aid bills were proposed, but that drunken, slurring idiot Pelosi blocked them all.
And she blocked them for the sole reason that she didn’t want Trump to get any of the credit. SHE gets all the blame.
The only time Democrats come in useful is when you want something wrecked. Destruction is all they know. Destruction, failure… and FRAUD.
@Deplorable Me, #11:
The economic returns that the sector generates greatly exceed the taxpayer dollars devoted to support and expansion of its activities.
March 19, 2019 – Latest Data Shows Increase to U.S. Economy from Arts and Cultural Sector
@Greg: Um, show me the Kennedy Center’s contribution. You are talking the entertainment industry, not the “arts”. And, while they piss and moan about China stealing their intellectual property, they kiss China’s ass to be able to peddle their shit in China. Trump stood up to China, fought to protect their intellectual property from theft and they eviscerated him for it.
They don’t deserve a DIME.
@Deplorable Me: None of them are generating anything they are closed, Disney keeps going with online content and merchandise.
Allowing the escape of a movie or play, maybe a concert. NO the covid nazis ended all fun everywhere, including the revenue it generated.
Even now they could end 90% of covid deaths by prioritizing those most at risk, but the racist vaxx nazis dont want that. Let grandma die all alone locked away in the home, the least safe space in NY MI NJ where PSYCHO killer Governors intentionally infected the most frail.
We should open up national elections for referendums, term limits, line item veto, photo ID, Bill size limits, so much more.
@Greg:
Have you ever been to anything at the Kennedy Center, Comrade Greggie? Do you really think that the waitress at her local diner who is now out of a job gives a rat’s ass about the Kennedy Center? It’s named after a Kennedy. So let the Kennedy’s pay for the expenses of the Kennedy Center which is, by the way, shut down.
Man, you’ll fall for any bullshit when it comes from a radical left winger, won’t you? Why is Ocasio-Cortez complaining that she didn’t have enough time to read the bill when SHE VOTED “YEA” TO SUSPEND THE RULES WHICH INCLUDED THE 72 HOUR RULE? Got that, Comrade Greggie, AOC is gritching about something SHE VOTED FOR.
Don’t believe me? Look it up.
But hey, you’ll believe any lie when it comes from a radical left wing Democrat, right?
@Greg:
Do you feel odd to find yourself in agreement with the Russians, Chinese and Iranians? ALWAYS?
@Greg: OK. Now show us the return on investment with gender studies in Pakistan.
@Nathan Blue: Photos of professors getting stoned to death or beheaded for teaching it soon to come.