The more House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leads, the less bipartisan government is possible. She launched impeachment, and now calls the President “obese.” COVID-19 is destroying the US economy, and she wants $3 trillion (HEROES act) to buy one-party control of Washington. Even the centrist journal The Hill describes Pelosi’s bill as “a giant political scam.”
Pelosi actually claimed the $3 trillion bill passed at “really quite an exciting time for us.” Not sure “exciting” describes how 20.6 million newly un-employed Americans feel – or the the families of almost 100,000 CV-19 dead. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) described her bill succinctly: “a seasonal catalog of left-wing oddities [called a] coronavirus bill.” In truth, it’s an election-year omnibus to buy votes in November.
Sends $910 billion to “struggling” states and cities. This is Pelosi’s blue-state insurance policy, in which red-state taxpayers get screwed. Most of the funds go to Democrat-run cities and states that were “struggling” before the pandemic (e.g. NYC had accrued a public-employee retirement deficit of $198 billion before 2020). Plus, sanctuary cities and states cannot be exempted.
Restores SALT deductions to federal income-tax rates. This is another Pelosi blue-state insurance policy; lowering blue-state taxes, funding state entitlements, and making red states pay for it.
Gives $25 billion to the US Postal Service. Immediately provides $127 million in retroactive dues to the American Postal Workers Union – and guess who they support? The CARES act gave the USPS $10 billion, but HEROES gives postal workers a $13-per-hour raise, retroactive to January 27 and in force for 60 days after the pandemic’s un-defined end. If passed, each postal employee will get an immediate $5,000-10,000 lump sum.
Rewards prison inmates and illegal immigrants. A naked appeal to aggrieved minorities. HEROES frees a wide range of felons: under 18, over 50, with pre-existing condition, or testing positive for COVID-19. Inmates are now gaming the system: Castaic’s (CA) prison filmed 21 “positive” inmates drinking from the same cup (source: CNN). The bill also benefits illegal immigrants: stimulus checks for aliens with W2 wages and “expedited green cards” for alien farm workers.
Expands student-loan forgiveness. The CARES suspension of interest and payments through September 20 was inadequate, so HEROES extends the freeze through September 2021 – and forgives $10,000 in public-employee student loans altogether (as long as the debtor quits the government job after September 2021). TCG rant: reminds young Sanders supporters and government workers to vote Democrat in November.
Ensures EVERY and ANY vote is counted in November 2020. Regardless of where or who the voter is, his or her vote must count. This is facilitated by state control over extraordinary vote-diminishing circumstances (e.g. long lines, pandemic, or tornado warning) and remedied by prepaid mail-in ballots and written voter attestation he or she cast the ballot – and only one ballot (no photo IDs). TCG rant: Democrats are pre-arranging vote-harvesting schemes in blue states and voter-suppression allegations in battleground states.
Extends the $600 weekly unemployment benefit through January 2021. Service-industry employers hate this, because minimum-wage rates won’t lure furloughed workers back to work. Put into context, any unemployed Alabaman can now earn $3,791 per month sitting at home. TCG rant: Republicans will alienate blue-collar Trump voters by opposing this.
Based on the type and duration of its benefits, the HEROES act is just one more mad-liberal insurance policy. To wit, if you support releasing a 65-year-old murderer during the pandemic, don’t you want him to finish his sentence? With few exceptions, Nancy Pelosi has dope-slapped Republicans, hoping to run the election table in November. Just imagine an America run by Biden, Pelosi and Schumer. Yikes!