The House has decided it is time to spend tons of money.

Smart kids are banned in Boston.

And books are burning on Amazon.

 

That’s A Lot of Money

On Saturday morning, the House of Representatives passed Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus. The vote went right down party lines:  219-212.

The stimulus bill passed with unanimous Republican opposition, and two Democrats — Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Kurt Schrader of Oregon — also voted against it.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed the stimulus bill. He said:

When you add it all up, the price tag of Democrats’ bill is jaw-dropping. At $1.9 trillion, it is the single most expensive bill in history. But don’t call it a rescue or relief bill. Call it a Pelosi Payoff. Because the amount of money that actually goes to funding public health is less than nine percent. This is not a serious attempt to fix the real problems of the American people.

The solution America needs is one that will get us on a path back to normal. We need blue state governors to lift their non-science-based lockdowns. We need schools to reopen, students back in the classroom and breadwinners back to work.

We need to continue to increase our vaccine distribution, so we can continue to control cases and ultimately destroy the virus.

That is what the American people need, what they want, and what they deserve. But the Democrats’ bill won’t accomplish this, and instead will result in families, children and small businesses continuing to get left behind, saddled with a debt they cannot afford, all for the sake of an agenda they never voted for.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has called it a “spectacular piece of legislation,” according to NBC News. That’s enough reason for me to believe that this bill sucks.

Here’s what the bill does:

Raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour. This is the tough one.

Will extend unemployment benefits from $300 to $400 through August 29th.

Will send a $1400 check for those earning $75K or less or a couple earning $150K or less. This is a tough one. I would have limited those checks. Also, the Republicans should ask for $2000 checks. That’s how heavy this bill is.

The House plan would extend the 15% increase in food stamp benefits through September, instead of having it expire at the end of June.

The legislation would send roughly $19.1 billion to state and local governments to help low-income households cover back rent, rent assistance and utility bills.

In an effort to combat poverty, it would expand the child tax credit to $3,600 for each child under 6 and $3,000 for each child under age 18. Currently, qualifying families can receive a credit of up to $2,000 per child under age 17.

The bill would provide nearly $130 billion to K-12 schools to help students return to the classroom. What’s controversial about this is that the payments for the teacher’s union will go over the next four years and goes way above what they used to get.

The House bill now includes nearly $40 billion for colleges. Institutions would be required to spend at least half the money to provide emergency financial aid grants to students.

The bill would also provide $39 billion to child care providers.

The bill would make federal premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act policies more generous and would eliminate the maximum income cap for two years. This is trying to fix Obamacare and has nothing to do with COVID.

The bill would provide $15 billion to the Emergency Injury Disaster Loan program, which provides long-term, low-interest loans from the Small Business Administration. Severely impacted small businesses with fewer than 10 workers will be given priority for some of the money. It also provides $25 billion for a new grant program specifically for bars and restaurants. Eligible businesses may receive up to $10 million and can use the money for a variety of expenses, including payroll, mortgage and rent, utilities and food and beverages. The Paycheck Protection Program, which is currently taking applications for second-round loans, would get an additional $7 billion and the bill would make more non-profit organizations eligible.

Another $175 million would be used for outreach and promotion, creating a Community Navigator Program to help target eligible businesses.

The House legislation would provide $350 billion to state and local governments, as well as tribes and territories. States and the District of Columbia would receive $195.3 billion, while local governments would be sent $130.2 billion to be divided evenly between cities and counties. Tribes would get $20 billion and territories $4.5 billion. This is a bail out for democrat run cities and states who ran their states into the ground.

The House bill provides $14 billion to research, develop, distribute, administer and strengthen confidence in vaccines. It would also put $46 billion towards testing, contact tracing and mitigation, including investing in laboratory capacity, community-based testing sites and mobile testing units, particularly in medically underserved areas.

It also puts a crap load of money into infrastructure including libraries, schools, roads, bridges, art centers and museums.

It’s a crappy bill that takes out a lot of money that our kids and grandkids are going to have to pay off. It’s a disaster. This bill is definitely going to have issues getting through the senate as it is.

The Senate parliamentarian ruled on Thursday that the minimum wage hike could not remain in the proposal as written if it were passed through the reconciliation process, which Democrats will have to do in order to ensure a veto-proof simple majority. Basically, the Democrats need to prove that raising the minimum wage can be reflected in the cost of the bill. Of course, it can’t. The Republicans can filibuster this to require 67 votes to pass. They do not have anywhere near 67 votes.

Another problem, even if it gets through the reconciliation process, the Democrats cannot lose one vote. They need a 50-50 vote to have Kamala Harris be the affirming vote. We know of at least one Democrat, Joe Manchin, who is against the bill. I think there is another but am not sure.

This would be a big win for Biden. I find it sad to hear that this bill would be OK with the Republicans if it weren’t for the minimum wage increase. I also find it sad that the best way our politicians think to fix this problem with the economy is not a $1.9 trillion bill but just opening the economy.

Why doesn’t anyone just do that?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-controlled-house-passes-1-9-trillion-stimulus-bill-two-dems-vote-against-it?utm_source=Jeeng
https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-dem-who-voted-against-1-9-trillion-stimulus-says-process-should-have-involved-republicans
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-reject-gop-stimulus-amendment-to-move-100m-from-silicon-valley-subway-to-childrens-mental-health
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/19/politics/stimulus-house-democrats-proposal/index.html

 

We Don’t Want Any Smart People 

Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders will not be accepted into advanced classes in Boston for the next year because a majority of students in those classes are white or Asian.

GBH News reported that the selective program, called Advanced Work Classes, will suspend enrollment in part because of the pandemic but also because of “concerns about equity.”

The school district analyzed the demographics of the program and found that “more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black,” GBH reported.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said:

“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address. There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”

School committee member said:

“This is just not acceptable. I’ve never heard these statistics before, and I’m very, very disturbed by them.”

The suspension of the program comes as schools across the country have begun teaching radical critical race theory, creating more classes insisting white supremacy can be found everywhere and denouncing merit-based systems as racist.

So being smart is racist. We can have people with more capacity than others. We must be a collective and in order to have a collective we must all be the same. Comrade.

We are going to have a lot of stupid people in the future.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-public-schools-will-suspend-advanced-classes-because-too-many-students-in-them-are-white-or-asian

 

Let the Book Burning Begin

Last week, Amazon decided to kill a biopic for Justice Clarence Thomas, on Black History Month, Great timing. But they also banned a book called When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement. The book is a scientific look at transgenderism and how people can gain an understanding on how to deal with them. It is not a book that disparages transgenders but teaches us how to understand them.

When asked, Amazon just pointed to their policies:

” Under a section labeled “Offensive Content,” Amazon states that they “don’t sell certain content including content that we determine is hate speech, promotes the abuse or sexual exploitation of children, contains pornography, glorifies rape or pedophilia, advocates terrorism, or other material we deem inappropriate or offensive.”

Amazon most recently added the “hate speech” portion of their policies. You know what the problem is with hate speech? What is hate speech? If the book mentioned earlier was an example of hate speech, what was said that was “hateful”?

No answers.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-end-of-conservative-books-amazon-quietly-bans-books-they-deem-offensive-hate-speech