Dear Editor,
Democrats’ “Stimulus” Bill
I like receiving money, but . . .
Congress just passed the $1.9 trillion dollar legislation this past week, allowing most Americans to receive $1,400 per adult and additional sums to dependent children, etc. The hyped rationale for this windfall is to help individuals hurt by the Covid pandemic. The real beneficiaries are those municipalities who had effectively bankrupted themselves, e.g., Chicago, Philadelphia, L.A., San Francisco, et al. All of the cities benefitting from this largesse, have for years had Democratic administrations whose strategy was [and remains] tax & spend. Their failure has resulted in higher crime rates due to reduced policing, insolvent police/fire/teacher pension funds, crumbling infrastructures, and negative population [tax base]. This bailout is a reward for failure and disincentifies fiscal responsibility. Working Americans must then subsidize failure; the $1,400 federal check is the sugar to mask the bitter taste of more government deficit spending.
It’s mainly the reward to voting a Dem congress and president: political payoff. We can expect more unworkable legislation in the future from this alt-left, politically correct, cancel-culture administration in the form of “reparations” to minorities, student loan forgiveness for all, guaranteed income for all Americans (willing and able to work of not). It is unfair, un-American, and despicable to take hard-earned money from working Americans and give it to those who won’t work . . . even if it is strictly speaking, legal – e.g., the “stimulus” law. What is our tolerance level for being bled white by taxes for unworkable unAmerican social programs?
I am fearful for the future of our country, and when reviewing the proposed agenda of the administration, I wonder, but only a little, what can be the solution? Where is the Army?
God bless America!
El Sellers
Fairfield, Texas
