Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the impact of Joe Biden’s myriad budget busters already passed or in the works.
If everything that Biden has proposed were to be approved by Congress, the national debt would climb by a cool $22 trillion over the next decade. That’s a $7.6 trillion increase in the debt path that he inherited. And that’s with COVID over!
Here’s how the numbers stack up:
The so-called stimulus plan passed in February adds $2.1 trillion of debt spending.
Bidens first formal budget proposal adds another $665 billion for programs like more funding of the IRS, EPA, foreign aid, the Education Department plus more.
Then on top of that, Biden Administration wants to add an additional $4.9 trillion of debt spending for his green new deal “infrastructure plan” and his “human infrastructure” scam for programs like paid parental leave, child care subsidies, universal day care, and the like.
The publicly held debt would skyrocket from 98% of GDP in 2020 to 130% by 2031.
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San Francisco is losing its 17th Walgreens drug store this week.
The reason: Theft in Walgreens’ San Francisco stores is four times the average for stores elsewhere, and the chain spends 35 times more on security guards in the city than elsewhere.
The SF Chronicle recently asked a Walgreen’s clerk why the shelves were near-empty. He said, “Go ask the people in the alleys, they have it all.”
Contributing to the crime spree: a new law which lowers penalties for thefts under $950 as well as a failure to fully prosecute organized crime rings behind much of the theft.
Term limits mean that New York City will finally be rid of the haplessly incompetent Bill de Blasio at the end to this year. Election Day is June 22 with the Democratic primary. The city’s declining quality of life is emerging as the biggest issue.
Crime rate is rising for the first time since the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations cleaned up the city. For the month of April, the overall index of crime is up 30%, compared with a year ago. Grand larceny is up 66%, felony assault up 36% and shootings have increased 156%.
Half the city's Democratic primary voters rate “public safety and crime rates” as one of their top two priorities. Only 18% of New Yorkers want to see less police presence in their neighborhoods.
In NYC, 80,000 city employees will return this week. They’ve had a year long paid vacation, it’s time.
But city employee unions have learned something from teacher unions, who are masters in delay and exaggerated safety concerns.
The union demand is for no return to work until at least September, giving everyone a version of the summer vacation teachers have.
Over the weekend, hundreds of union members gathered outside City Hall to protest any return to work. "We as city workers are concerned that the mayor's hasty return to office planning is all risk and no reward," one speaker shouted. Um, isn’t a paycheck a reward?
There is something highly suspicious about the revised 2020 Census Bureau state population data which determines which states pick up & which states lose seats in House. Suddenly there are 2.5 mil more residents of blue states, & 500k fewer residents of red states than estimated.
These are the giant differences between the official 2020 Census count and the December, 2020 estimate. Nearly all of the big unexpected population gains were in blue states, and most of the unexpected population losses were in red states. Coincidence?
The New York population number was revised UPWARD by some 850,000 people. Implausibly, that is double the combined population of Buffalo and Rochester. During COVID hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers LEFT the Empire State.
Tonight’s virtual fundraiser with Joe Biden and Former President Obama was supposed to be an opportunity for the former president to make a “full-throated case” for Biden. Instead, it’s turning into yet another secretive event designed to protect Biden from scrutiny at all costs.
The Biden campaign is requiring supporters to pay money to watch while blocking the media from accessing any video or audio. Biden has become so bad that his handlers can’t even trust him to share a screen with President Obama.
If you do manage to catch the livestream, here are seven things that most certainly won’t be mentioned:
1) Obama and Biden oversaw the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression with stagnant wage growth that left people of color behind.