Democrats have deep delusions about the need for massive big government-growing welfare spending. Welfare spending in America is unsustainable, not needful. Democrats are stupid about fiscal issues. They are unaware that borrowed money needs to be paid back, like personal credit card spending.
‘Entitlement society’: Progressives refuse to pull political goodies from $3.5T social welfare bill
President Biden’s stalled $3.5 trillion social welfare bill, the subject of intense and prolonged negotiations between moderate and liberal Democrats over possible cuts, is loaded with progressive goodies that would expand the entitlement state.
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- $108 billion to pay for at least two free years of community college for all students, regardless of citizenship status.
- $450 billion to fund a universal pre-kindergarten program for children ages 3 and 4.
- $225 billion over the next decade to pay for 12 weeks a year of paid family and medical leave.
- $5 million in annual grants to the Small Business Administration for helping “felons transition into entrepreneurs.”
- $1 billion to deploy electric vehicle charging stations across the country.
- $3 billion for a campaign to increase “tree equity” across the U.S. in hopes of further curbing greenhouse gas emissions.