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"President Biden and the Democratic Congress are facing a crisis as the popular
domestic agenda they ran on in the 2020 election is held hostage by two
corporate Democratic Senators, fossil-fuel consigliere Joe Manchin and
payday-lender favorite Kyrsten Sinema.
But the very week before the Dems’ $350 billion-per-year domestic package hit
this wall of corporate money-bags, all but 38 House Democrats voted to hand
over more than double that amount to the Pentagon. Senator Manchin has
hypocritically described the domestic spending bill as “fiscal insanity,” but
he has voted for a much larger Pentagon budget every year since 2016.
Real fiscal insanity is what Congress does year after year, taking most of its
discretionary spending off the table and handing it over to the Pentagon before
even considering the country’s urgent domestic needs. Maintaining this pattern,
Congress just splashed out $12 billion for 85 more F-35 warplanes, 6 more than
Trump bought last year, without debating the relative merits of buying more
F-35s vs. investing $12 billion in education, healthcare, clean energy or
fighting poverty."
Via
libramoon@pluspora.com.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
