Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
MARILYN MONROE
Entertaining Ourselves to Death
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Fifty cents for your soul comes out to be a crisp $1,000,000 bill in Venezuela.
The following link is a glimpse of what’s to come as the government pretends to help Americans with $1.9 Trillion for “relief due to coronavirus,” which isn’t true. That money is to shore up failed liberal mis-management in their favorite liberal metropolis’.
In short, a Venezuelan economic model that is lining the streets;
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/hyperinflation-pushes-venezuela-to-print-1000000-bolivar-bills/ar-BB1ei8Dj
Embellishment on my part.
All told, about 15% of the proposal goes to “long-standing policy priorities that are not directly related to the current crisis,” said the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization formed to educate the public on federal budget issues.
Philip,
They need to define “longstanding-policy priorities.”
In fact, the boondoggle includes $1,400 a week for each federal employee while her/his kids are locked out of school by teachers’ unions, that are also getting a $570 million windfall.
Actually, only 9% is direct China virus relief.
And, the oligarchs and bankrupt, blue states are forcing the rest of the USA pay off their massive, unsustainable debts (not China virus related) built up over decades of sweetheart deals with unionized state, county, municipal employees.
I could go on. Stop me.
And, they still have$1 trillion unspent from the prior bill.
Our politicians are godawful. And they have a sufficient quantum of assent from our feckless electorate that 95% of them get returned to office every two years.
I’ve heard that it’s only 9% – 15% for COVID 19 relief. That the rest of trillions is for pork and bailing out disgracefully run cities and states who were in the hole before COVID became an issue. Shutting down their economies exacerbated the slide to bankruptcy but did not cause it. I’m paraphrasing one Dem. congressman who sputtered, “But you don’t know how difficult it would be to make the bill just for COVID relief!” Not one Republican voted for it yet Biden crowed it had bipartisan support.
It’s difficult to make a bill just for COVID relief because the dems don’t care about COVID relief.
Also schools. Parents need to do all they can to dump the public school system (inc. charter schools). And probably the diocesan system as well.
T Shaw and CAM.
Thank you.
Confirmation on my first assertion shrinks the embellishment…some.
To ponder the future hard working tradesmen having to skimp to feed his family and make ends meet so a liberal anti-fascist fascist can have tuition free college while the tradesmen prays that he can fuel his truck in the morning…well it’s a nightmare that seems will be unfolding in the not to distant future.
The destruction of small business and pursuit of green initiatives which will increase the cost of living is inevitable under the diabolic party.that is currently at the helm.
Now our tax dollars fuel more misery. Planned Parenthood, the “Savior of Woman’s Health,” will benefit from our labors. Survived the abortion poor fetus? Well let’s finish you off outside the womb…and the sympathy is non-existent.
The importance of dignity and doing the right thing?
I won’t believe it from the left until they recognize the genocide that is abortion on demand. Until they join in the fight for the unborn.
Until they stand up for the female who is a fetus and can’t protect herself from a culture that doesn’t respect her rights. Her right to health care starting with the right to life.
Until then, the left are a sorry bunch of wordsmiths who must cheat, lie and manipulate to get their way.
Until they respect the life of the unborn human I have no respect for them.
None.