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The 80 Million Voter Man Week-in-Review

Joe Biden and an Administration Barely Alive

The 80 Million Voter Man is no 6 Million Dollar Man. Photo courtesy of NBC.com

In the introduction to the 6 Million Dollar Man, you can hear the following:

Harve Bennett:
Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive.

Oscar Goldman:
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better… stronger… faster.

In 2022 United States the introduction would be as follow:

The American People:

Joe Biden, President. A man barely alive.

Failed Democrat Controlled Government:

Gentlemen, we cannot rebuild him. We do not have the technology.

We do not have the capability to restore Joe Biden’s credibility. Joe Biden is a liar. A bigger liar than before. Worse, weaker…slower.

It has been an interesting week with the 80 Million Voter Man continuing to spread misinformation and blaming Russia for everything, from higher gasoline prices to the lack of baby formula for American citizens.

It seems Joe Biden cannot take responsibility for what is a failed administration. A broken border, a proxy war with Russia via Ukraine, the highest inflation levels in decades, higher consumer products prices, gasoline prices at record high and rising, shortages of baby formula for American citizens babies, you name it, it is Russia’s fault.

While the United States government, including Republicans, continue to send billions of dollars to Ukraine, and war monger Republican senator Lindsey Graham calls for an “all out” war with Russia, Americans continue to suffer and the people in charge of this country do not care.

This week was no different than the one before. Joe Biden went on a speaking spree throwing the same talking points, Russia this, Russia that, but with no viable solution in sight. He had nothing to offer but silly rhetoric and a bag full of lies.

While Americans are put in the position to choose between feeding their families or paying their mortgage, the Democrats continue to go the “social issues” route, from student loan debt forgiveness to abortion rights.

In the real world, the problems keeping Americans up at night are more pressing. Since January 2022, natural gas prices have tripled and new record highs of $4.40 per gallon of gasoline are making everyday life a lot tougher.

With the upcoming reversal of Title 42 things are going to get even more difficult. The influx of thousands of illegal aliens is going to overwhelm an already stressed system and it is going to put more pressure on social services meant for American citizens.

If you want a little preview, go no further than the current baby formula crisis. While shelfs are running empty, the United States government have horded large amounts of baby formula for illegal aliens at their detention facilities.

If you listen to the 80 Million Voter Man, you will think everything is fine, but is not. The Biden administration claims this crisis “is not new to the White House.” Were they aware and did nothing?

Who knows, maybe Joe has been hording the baby formula for himself.

Joe Biden claims he will speed up manufacturing process while cracking down on price gauging. Folks, he cannot do this, and he knows it. There is no evidence of price gauging, but plenty of evidence of government hording.

The Biden Food and Drug Administration shutdown the Abbott Nutrition Plant in Sturgis, Michigan for a whole month. They knew what was going to happen and if they did not, shame on them.

Another week ends with Joe Biden lying to the American people, blaming everything on Russia, funding a proxy war with Russia with money we do not have, and keeping American babies from accessing baby formula while illegal aliens, and their children, are well taken care of by the same government who neglects its citizens.

Another garden variety week from the 80 Million Voter Man.

Stay tuned for next week episode of the 80 Million Voter Man, I guarantee, it will not disappoint.

Can’t Afford Them? Don’t Have Them

Joe Biden Socialized Childcare Agenda

Can’t afford them? That’s a “you” problem, not a government problem. Photo courtesy of westlondon.com

Joe Biden continues to promote his socialist agenda every chance he gets and every time he can get a few people in a room to listen.

While visiting Connecticut, he took the opportunity to promote his taxpayer funded childcare program. He thinks that by giving free childcare to parents, these parents will be able to go to work and make a living. Sure Joe!

He is trying to use this as leverage for his $3.5 trillion spending package, the one his own party will not go along with because it will bankrupt a country in already financial stress.

As usual, he uses empty words and gibberish. He says free childcare is necessary in “keeping America competitive in the global economy.”

Really? You must be a producer to be competitive and a viable trading partner, and we are not. Biden killed one of the only industries that was making money while making us energy independent, the oil industry.

He claims parents cannot be part of the workforce because they cannot afford the price of childcare. Seriously? If you have job, you can pay for your own childcare. First, you must look for a job. Mooching unemployment checks is not a job, you are a burden to society.

According to One America News Network, Biden was asking for $200 billion in funding as part of the “Care Economy Policy.” Now, he is pushing for private businesses to build “on-site” childcare centers.

Who is going to pay for this? Are private business owners on the hook for this additional expense? Is Biden going to use this to strip non-compliant business owners of their businesses? This is nothing more than Banana Republic socialism.

Private businesses can barely stay afloat with all the new bloated COVID-19 regulations and know the government wants them to become de facto babysitters.

Biden went on to say, “So, if you go to work with your child and you have a serious facility on-site. Well, studies show that when you have on-site care for children, businesses, the business itself have less employee turnover, less absenteeism, and higher productivity. We can show you all those studies. It’s real.”

Folks, Biden cannot produce those studies because they do not exist. This is all socialist leftwing propaganda. If this were indeed true, the Federal government would have already implemented such a program government wide.

Bottom line, taxpayers are not responsible for your children’s childcare. If you cannot afford childcare, it means you cannot afford to have children.

The government, be Federal or State, is not responsible for your irresponsible decisions.

The Republican Party “C’est Fini”

From a Conservative Point of View

One thing I have always admired about the Democrats is the fact they always fight and get what they want, even in the minority. I don’t support their policies, but I always recognize a prize fighter when I see one.

Democrats exercise the power of the office while Republicans enjoy the glamour of being in office. That’s a big difference and now with the Democrats in power, Republicans are nowhere to be found.

Sure, they talk a good game in front of the cameras and in conservative radio talk shows, but when it is time to put their money where their mouth is, they play broke.

Republicans are all about perception over principles while Democrats couldn’t care less about what “we the people” may think or feel. The Democrats will ram anything through the Congress, and they are 100% in it.

The Republicans, even in the majority, rarely get anything done. The Obama administration committed many impeachable acts during their tenure, but Republicans were worried about been labeled “racists” for impeaching the first “Black President.”

From weaponizing the IRS against American citizens, to Benghazi, to Fast and Furious, and the extra judicial droning of American citizens. The Republicans did nothing and the Obama administration lived to tell the tale, their tale.

Democrats? Democrats were impeaching President Trump from the moment he became the Republican Party nominee. Once he became President, the game was on, and the Democrats were all over it and committed to impeach him by any means possible. They did it, not once, but twice.

On the first impeachment trial, they claimed President Trump had abused his power and obstructed the Congress. President Trump was impeached a second time after the January 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol.

On both trials the Senate voted for acquittal despite the fact 10 Republicans joined in with the Democrats to impeach him on the second trial. With Republicans like that who needs Democrats.

Need more evidence of Republican weakness? In the latest Republican caper, Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, along with 10 Republicans join in with the Democrats to give them a huge victory over the debt ceiling debacle.

The Republicans who joined this exercise on fiscal irresponsibility were, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, South Dakota Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, West Virginia Sen. Shelly Moore Capito and Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso.

Mitch McConnell and the Republicans didn’t need to do this. They had the upper hand, and they should have forced the Democrats to raise the ceiling via the budget reconciliation process. After the fact, Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer took a victory lap while humiliating the Republicans in the process.

Chuck Schumer went on to say, “We have reached an agreement to extend the debt ceiling through early December, and it’s our hope that we can get this done as soon as today,”

An agreement? Excuse me, but this was nothing more than a capitulation by the Republicans. As they always do, talk a good game and at the end they always fold.

The Republican Party is weak and is ran by old foolish leadership. If you think they will step up to the plate and get anything done in the event they retake the House and the Senate in 2022, think again. Not with career politicians like Mitch McConnell or Lindsay Graham at the helm.

The Republicans don’t have it in them to fight, the Democrats are political MMA fighters. Consider this, when Democrats are the minority at the Federal level, they take all their energy and money and concentrate on local elections.

Democrats are always two steps ahead while Republicans are trying to figure out which foot to move first.

The Republican Party is dead. The road toward socialism has never been brighter.

Raising the Debt Ceiling

Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell Offers Democrats an Out

And it will! Photo courtesy of medium.com

When it comes to reckless spending in Washington, there is no such thing as Republican or Democrats.

These two compete against each to see which one can spend the most while taking the country down the road of insolvency.

The fight to raise the debt limit continues, meanwhile Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, is even suggesting the United States get rid of the debt ceiling all together. This is crazy talk my fellow Americans.

To those of you who do not know the meaning of the debt ceiling, it is simple.

The debt ceiling is the maximum amount of money the United States government can borrow by issuing bonds. Once the national debt touches the debt ceiling, the Treasury department needs to step in to pay government obligations and expenditures until the ceiling is raised by Congress.

In the event the debt ceiling is not raised, the United States government could default on its debt.

Our government continues to spend and borrow money we do not have therefore the debt ceiling needs to be raised to meet those obligations.

How have we got here? In April of 2021, the United States debt hit the $28 trillion mark for the first time ever in our history. This is how you get yourself in a financial bind.

Imagine if you were to call your credit card company and ask for them to raise your credit limit despite the fact you can barely make minimum payments. They will laugh at you.

Then come the threats of a government shutdown. Let us be honest about what it really means and not the apocalyptic picture our government wants to paint.

Essential services and personnel continue to operate. This includes the military, law enforcement, and anything essential to the operation of our government. Welfare checks, military pensions, Social Security benefits, and social services do not stop.

The worst-case scenario is a paid vacation for non-essential government workers. They are sent home and at the end of the shutdown they get paid for work they did not perform.

This happened back in 1995 when Newt Gingrich refused to negotiate with Bill Clinton for higher government spending. It went into 1996, and despite the efforts by the Republicans not to pay furloughed government employees, they eventually caved in. One positive was a balanced budget was agreed upon for the first time in decades.

In 2011, Obama faced the same issue with Republicans asking for deficit reductions in exchange for a raise in the debt ceiling. It was so bad that the Standards & Poor (S&P), stripped the United States of its 70-year triple A rating.

In 2013, the government shutdown for 16 days over the Affordable Care Act. What did Congress do? Eliminated the debt ceiling. Very fiscally responsible if you ask me.

Since then, the debt ceiling has been raised in 2014, 2015, and 2017, and 2019, when the debt reached $22 trillion dollars.

Now, the Republicans are at it again. Mitch McConnell, along with several other “Republicans in Name Only,” senators, has offered the Democrats a “short term solution.” In a statement, McConnell said the Republicans would support a deal to temporarily suspend the debt ceiling a “fixed dollar amount.”

Nothing is temporary in Washington. According to McConnell, the agreement would cover current spending levels into December, giving the Democrats an out to find a more permanent solution.

What about stopping reckless spending and living within our fiscal means?

The debt ceiling was supposed to be a measure to regulate government spending and to keep the government fiscally responsible. Since World War I, the debt ceiling has been raised over seventy-eight times to avoid government default on its debt. Obviously, it is not working.

Meanwhile, the Democrats in Congress want to spend like drunken sailors by adding trillions of dollars to an already bloated government debt.

Do not hold your breath, the Republicans will cave in, the debt ceiling will be raised along with more spending.

Wash, Rinse, and Repeat!

Lie of The Week

$3.5 Trillion Spending Plan

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. reacts as she listens to a question from a reporter during her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Once again, the Democrats continue to open their mouths spewing more lies. This time about their reckless $3.5 trillion dollar spending plan.

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in the House and Senate, have gone in a publicity spree promoting this monstrosity. Claiming of all things the plan will incur zero tax increases on the American people and it is completely paid for.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) already stated the spending plan will add over $250 billion dollars to the deficit over the next 10 years.

I do not need the CBO to tell me that anything coming out of Washington D.C. is anything but “paid for.”

When asked about the plan and its cost, Nancy Pelosi stated, “It’s not about a dollar amount. The dollar amount, as the President has said, is zero. This bill will be paid for. It is about what are the values that we share and how we prioritize them. And that is the place we will go.”

This is typical Washington, D.C. “Potomac Two-Step.” Pelosi’s play on words is typical. She always answers the questions without answering the questions. You know why? Because Pelosi thinks you and I are too stupid and cannot tell the difference between the truth and bold face lies.

This spending plan is not paid for. Thankfully for us, the Democrats have some politicians in their ranks who understand the consequences of reckless spending and what it can do to American families and our economic future.

Senator Joe Manchin, from West Virginia and Kristen Sinema, from Arizona appear to be the only two Senators in the Democratic party who are not willing to bankrupt the country.

When asked, Senator Manchin stated, “What I have made clear to the President and democratic leaders is that spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs when we can’t even pay for sessional social programs, like Social Security and Medicare, is the definition of fiscal insanity.”

He is correct, it is insanity. Social Security is on the verge of insolvency within the next decade and Medicare is currently facing an $85.6 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities.

The United States has $6 trillion in assets and $130 trillion in unfunded liabilities. During the first six months of FY 2021, the government ran a $1.7 trillion dollar deficit while raising the national debt to a whopping $28 trillion dollar. The first time in American history.

This is not Common Core mathematics; 2+2=4.

The truth about this lie is the fact they will tax Americans to death. They don’t have the money to pay for this spending bill, so they are coming after you and your hard-earned cash.