News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
U.S.—Now that Congress has passed a relief package to give a life-changing sum of $600 to American citizens, retailers and restaurants are preparing to adjust for the runaway inflation that will follow due to printing trillions of dollars. To celebrate the changing times, McDonald’s has announced its latest hot menu item: the McStimulus.
The McStimulus will cost $600 and will feature a 100% allegedly real pork patty topped with lettuce, tomato, mayo, and shredded dollar bills shipped fresh from the U.S. Treasury.
“McDonald’s has been faithfully serving the public during this COVID crisis,” said McDonald’s founder Bob McDonald’s, “but the dollar menu items have to go. Money is meaningless now. We can’t support our corporation charging one dollar for burgers when the government is doling out billions of freshly printed money to the people!”
Economists report that other fast-food chains are following suit, and predict that the average fast-food stop will cost $1,200 within 3 or 4 years.
Retailers and streaming services are also taking advantage of COVID relief. Netflix is expected to increase the cost of its streaming service to $599 per month by the end of the year. Nike is introducing a pair of $600 Air Stimulus basketball shoes. Hundreds of other companies have announced exciting new products in the $600 range as well.
Go here to read the rest. If you have to file Bankruptcy due to government mandated shut downs, the $600.00 stimulus payment probably gets you between half to a third of the way there in paying the fee of your Bankruptcy attorney!
Last night, President Trump signed the Covid Relief act. He issued this signing statement:
U.S.—Now that Congress has passed a relief package to give a life-changing sum of $600 to American citizens, retailers and restaurants are preparing to adjust for the runaway inflation that will follow due to printing trillions of dollars. To celebrate the changing times, McDonald’s has announced its latest hot menu item: the McStimulus.
The McStimulus will cost $600 and will feature a 100% allegedly real pork patty topped with lettuce, tomato, mayo, and shredded dollar bills shipped fresh from the U.S. Treasury.
“McDonald’s has been faithfully serving the public during this COVID crisis,” said McDonald’s founder Bob McDonald’s, “but the dollar menu items have to go. Money is meaningless now. We can’t support our corporation charging one dollar for burgers when the government is doling out billions of freshly printed money to the people!”
Economists report that other fast-food chains are following suit, and predict that the average fast-food stop will cost $1,200 within 3 or 4 years.
Retailers and streaming services are also taking advantage of COVID relief. Netflix is expected to increase the cost of its streaming service to $599 per month by the end of the year. Nike is introducing a pair of $600 Air Stimulus basketball shoes. Hundreds of other companies have announced exciting new products in the $600 range as well.
Go here to read the rest. After it became obvious that Congress would do nothing to address his criticisms of the Covid relief bill, Trump signed it last night, issuing this signing statement:
As President of the United States it is my responsibility to protect the people of our country from the economic devastation and hardship that was caused by the China Virus.
I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states. Many people are back to work, but my job is not done until everyone is back to work.
Fortunately, as a result of my work with Congress in passing the CARES Act earlier this year, we avoided another Great Depression. Under my leadership, Project Warp Speed has been a tremendous success, my Administration and I developed a vaccine many years ahead of wildest expectations, and we are distributing these vaccines, and others soon coming, to millions of people.
As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child.
As President I am demanding many rescissions under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The Act provides that, “whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided, or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons (including termination of authorized projects or activities for which budget authority has been provided), the President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message” describing the amount to be reserved, the relevant accounts, the reasons for the rescission, and the economic effects of the rescission. 2 U.S.C. § 683.
I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill.
I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more.
On Monday the House will vote to increase payments to individuals from $600 to $2,000. Therefore, a family of four would receive $5,200. Additionally, Congress has promised that Section 230, which so unfairly benefits Big Tech at the expense of the American people, will be reviewed and either be terminated or substantially reformed.
Likewise, the House and Senate have agreed to focus strongly on the very substantial voter fraud which took place in the November 3 Presidential election.
The Senate will start the process for a vote that increases checks to $2,000, repeals Section 230, and starts an investigation into voter fraud.
Big Tech must not get protections of Section 230!
Voter Fraud must be fixed!
Much more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people!
None of that is going to happen of course. The simple fact is that as a lame duck president Trump has zero leverage since Congress would either have overridden his veto, or the mess would simply have been passed again and submitted to President Biden. Trump was probably concerned of the negative impact of an end of the year Government shut down on the two Republicans running in the Georgia Senate run offs. The one safe prediction in the coming year is that under the new administration another twenty-five percent will probably be added to our national debt before the mid terms of 2022.
What all draconian, totally unnecessary, irresponsible, totalitarian Covid “pandemic” fighting measures did was impoverish our country in countless ways. Where is it all going to end? When will the American public wake up and respond? Are we looking at the dead soul of America? Hope not.
During 2020, the CCP and its globalist stooges invented many more strains of China virus propaganda than anyone could have predicted.
On the bright side, several blue states, run by tin pot dictators, may have committed economic and fiscal suicide. Just don’t let their refugees come to your state.
The 2d World War came to an end in September 1945. The President and Congress had by the end of the 1946 / 47 fiscal year cut military spending by 85%, demobilized > 90% of the men in uniform, and balanced the federal budget. Among the ringmasters of this project was Harry Truman, who played piano in the whorehouse of Kansas City politics for 20 years before landing willy-nilly in the Presidency. In a previous era, the crook-enablers were capable of patriotism.
As for our own time, worst political class in history.