The Democrats in the House are going to propose and new virus relief package with a total cost of 3 trillion dollars. They should call it the Democrats' Omnibus Act for Corona Relief And Partisanship, or DOA CRAP for short.
Having failed in their earlier attempts to push through unrelated political items in the relief bills, the Dems are back at it again. As a result, this latest bill contains provisions that would end border enforcement, require affirmative action in corporate boardrooms, and mandate voting by mail to the extent possible. None of these have anything to do with the virus, but they are big items on the left wing to do list. These are going nowhere.
The Dems also want to sabotage the economic recovery so that it will help their chances in November. They couch this, for example, in a plan to extend until January the $600 per week of additional unemployment benefits that was included in the CARES Act until July. The result is that many people who were furloughed are now getting unemployment benefits at the rate of $40,000 per year. As a result, there are huge numbers of people who would rather sit home and wait for the government check than go back to work. As the economy continues to reopen, this will make it impossible for many business to operate due to a lack of workers.
The Dems also want a massive bailout for the states. There's no question that the states will need to have some level of federal aid to help with the huge cost of dealing with the virus and the corresponding loss of tax revenues caused by the economic shutdown. The Dem's however, also want states with underfunded pension programs to have funding of those programs taken over by the federal government. Those pension problems have nothing to do with the virus. It's a problem that predates the virus by many years. The states with the underfunded pension plans, however, are almost all big Democrat states like CT, IL, and NY. There's no reason why states that properly handled their finances should have to bail out the ones that acted irresponsibly.
There's a lot of other problems with the DOA CRAP. It truly is DOA and it truly is CRAP.
Having failed in their earlier attempts to push through unrelated political items in the relief bills, the Dems are back at it again. As a result, this latest bill contains provisions that would end border enforcement, require affirmative action in corporate boardrooms, and mandate voting by mail to the extent possible. None of these have anything to do with the virus, but they are big items on the left wing to do list. These are going nowhere.
The Dems also want to sabotage the economic recovery so that it will help their chances in November. They couch this, for example, in a plan to extend until January the $600 per week of additional unemployment benefits that was included in the CARES Act until July. The result is that many people who were furloughed are now getting unemployment benefits at the rate of $40,000 per year. As a result, there are huge numbers of people who would rather sit home and wait for the government check than go back to work. As the economy continues to reopen, this will make it impossible for many business to operate due to a lack of workers.
The Dems also want a massive bailout for the states. There's no question that the states will need to have some level of federal aid to help with the huge cost of dealing with the virus and the corresponding loss of tax revenues caused by the economic shutdown. The Dem's however, also want states with underfunded pension programs to have funding of those programs taken over by the federal government. Those pension problems have nothing to do with the virus. It's a problem that predates the virus by many years. The states with the underfunded pension plans, however, are almost all big Democrat states like CT, IL, and NY. There's no reason why states that properly handled their finances should have to bail out the ones that acted irresponsibly.
There's a lot of other problems with the DOA CRAP. It truly is DOA and it truly is CRAP.
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