Many people have wondered how the Biden administration could implement massive economic policies against the interests of their own constituents. The answer to that question is hidden inside the COVID relief bills, which are used as a method to pay the expenses of his policies so that targeted Democrat groups in urban regions do not have to pay for the policy.
One example of this policy and urban dependency scheme is found in the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
The “American Rescue Plan”, the mechanism to use taxpayer monies as redistributive subsidies to special interests under the guise of COVID bailouts and relief, contained $8 billion in funding to pay for the electricity and home heating costs of low income families.
WHITE HOUSE – […] In 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration and Congressional Democrats delivered $8 billion in LIHEAP funding nationally, more than doubling typical annual appropriations, thanks to an additional $4.5 billion provided by the American Rescue Plan. These funds represent the largest appropriation in a single year since the program was established in 1981. (more)
In essence, what this scheme allows is the Biden administration to trigger ‘Green New Deal‘ energy policies that drive massive increases in the cost of electricity, home heating, and energy use for the middle class and working class families, and yet the federal government pays those costs for the constituents they need to keep voting for them. Lower income families do not feel the energy policy burden, but middle class families are punished.
Yes, this is fundamentally class warfare, using the federal government to select the groups they do not want to feel the pain. It’s the same principle of increasing food stamp and SNAP food subsidy assistance by 25% this year, while those who do not qualify are forced to pay for higher food costs and the subsidy -via income taxes- of those same groups.
Additionally, “The American Rescue Plan provided other critical resources that states and localities can use to address home energy costs. ERA programs, which received an additional $21.5 billion in funding from the American Rescue Plan, can provide help with past-due utility bills or ongoing assistance with energy costs to help distressed renters avoid shut-offs and keep current on expenses.” (link)
So, when people ask how Joe Biden and the Democrats are able to drive policies that massively hurt the American economy overall; remember, the pain we are feeling from the collective weight of these policies is not hitting the constituents the Democrats need in order to keep them in office.
The champagne socialists and investment class are protected. The lower income and willingly subsidized class are protected. It is the middle class who are being punished by the collective weight of this economic mess.
None of this is accidental. This is a continuance of the ‘share/spread the wealth’ economic roadmap used by Obama.
Lunch-bucket Joe?… Ya, sure.
BrokeBack Mtn Better. No cheap energy thats why his wizards behind the curtain telling him what to write and think had their walking corpse shut off the pipeline. Green is marxist Red!
How to survive the Biden years.
I met a younger couple at a wedding reception that did exactly that several years ago, after Obamacare. Got divorced, then both adults and their kids moved in with Grandma. Qualify for everything and then shared the “wealth”. Disgusting, but people do what they gotta do.
I used to feel like you. No more. I plan on doing the same thing in a couple of years, hard assets
LOL! Swear I’ve actually had this fantasy! I’d consider it a tax refund.
Exactly, add up all your taxes and don’t forget all the inflation you paid for. Take all you can get from the USA Corp.
I’m guessing the record number of people who quit their jobs in Nov are planning to join the entitlement class.
That’s what the leftists count on. USA Corp is actually your fellow citizens. Going along with this is joining the cannibal Brigade.
Reminds me of when I used to work for a domestic violence non-profit. They had that scam down pat. Leave husband and claim violence. Get housing, job assistance, car repaired and food. We had a contract with one restaurant for the food. They were forever calling us to say “Do you know she comes in here for a steak and breakfast with her husband every morning”. Very frustrating work.
Cannibals. Feasting on their fellow citizens.
I do not believe this insanity is going to end the way gropin’ Joe and his fellow travelers think it will end. And that’s not me just plinking away on a keyboard, it’s human history doing the talking.
Yeah. I might be wrong but I think there are FAR more of us middle classers getting hit by the Left’s economic war upon us than there are urban poor getting our excessive taxes redistributed to pay all of their basic necessities.
AND we can name the salary…Just sayin. But you do have a VERY VALID POINT!!!
And, plenty on fixed incomes, NOT getting these govt distributed bennies, too.
Raise SS payments 5.9 percent, but then take almost all of it, by raising medicare $25/ month, so screwing them to their face.
We are fine, but seeing many seniors being hurt.
And, with cat food shortages, even their options are narrowing.
I agree. If we ride this out long enough, being unvaxed will be an advantage for employable workers. Take airline pilots for example.
well, you’ll probably be alive. that’s an advantage for employment.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/indiana/indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-are-up-40-among-people-ages-18-64/article_71473b12-6b1e-11ec-8641-5b2c06725e2c.html
From the article at that link: “The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.”
I don’t have a clue how to find it; but, somewhere, there has to be documentation showing an accompanying increase of profits in the funeral home industry.
I vaguely remember reading a couple of years ago that there are almost no locally owned funeral homes left; that pretty much all of them are now owned by just a few companies.
It would be interesting to find out how much those companies have invested in the corporations that are pushing the COVID hoax…
I highly suspect those companies are profiting from people being killed by the clot shot (or wrongful treatment of the virus) as well as from having stock in the corporations pushing those shots.
They are getting their raw materials, for soylent green burgers, soy burgers for short, ..stocking up for the coming famine.
A whole cottage industry is forming to make masks and plexiglass panels and supplements and tests and therapeutics, on top of the vaccine makers. As all of those businesses grow, they’ll be able to hire lobbyists and make sure Covid never ends.
What, you mean that while the dead can vote, they can’t WORK? Thats,…discrimination!
And after they voted one of there own into office as POTUS, too!
True. Death adds a certain finality to all one’s plans, hopes, and dreams. Instead of the priceless gift of being a person fashioned by God’s Hand, you have to get used to being a really small part of an ignored statistic.
Free Bread, circuses, and bribes.
And free masks. But they keep forgetting the rest of the Covidia insane aslyum costume. Tin Foil Hats and Bubblewrap
Not free PPE at Residential Care Homes according to an owner I know. They have to test and then quarantine positive “cases” with special precautions, N95s and PPE etc even if asymptomatic. They purchase their PPE at market price on Amazon. Will be hard hit if these idiots demand negative test to get out of quarantine.
It’s hard to tell “Guidance” from “Mandate” and there is a concern of losing their license for non-compliance. Don’t know where the old folks will go if they close. Who would want to take these risks to open a new place in this environment?
Not “free”; paid for by taxpayers. I constantly correct folks who call the vaccines “free”.
Better than that, ‘future taxpayers’ will pay, that’s my children and grandkids. We can’t even afford existing programs, as most are going broke or long past even that stage.
D.C. Gangsters Run-A-Muck.
A crime syndicate that makes the Mafia jealous.
But when it was your time, that you would be the one to pull the strings. Senator Corleone, Governor Corleone ….
Vitto Corleone The Godfather
I keep returning to the same thought with all of this Green New Deal @#$% bring pushed.
A global Holodomor.
…or Soylent Green.
Soylent Green will save the planet. /s
Get your garden ready.
Chickens too?
Nope, no dangers at all to printing money like wildfire!!!
Turn off the printing presses and you’ll fix many things!
Actual the aren’t print money but currency. Two most currency is held in the form of debt that must pay interest or it goes into default.
Thus a debt based money system must continuously increase the currency supply at this average interest rate or the currency supply will collapse in deflation as all defaulted debts are someone else’s asset.
Though that has never happened with a currency system. They have all failed via hyperinflation.
The only way to protect yourself is to accumulate things of real value you hold directly and become more self sufficient.
Treasury bills are denominated in dollars, right?
So, if dollars “lose value” with inflation, does the same thing happen with treasury bills, do THEY lose value with inflation?
If so, than those holding vast amounts of treasury bills, are getting screwed,…which is CHINA.
But again, I thought Bejing Joe was bought and paid for, and taking orders from CCP?
You are correct. CN is losing but it is playing the long game. CN Russia and just about every country in the world is starting to make one on one deals to bypass the federal reserve monetary system. the dollar is every where so other countries can’t risk their dollar investments so it is happening slowly but it is happening. It will be slow until it isn’t.
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Require people to feed themselves and many problems will disappear.
I sold my rental property this year just because of this. I got tired of having to negotiate with service agencies to get past due rent and utilities two months after the bills were due. They would eventually get paid but they were always behind and I would spend literally hours collecting the late bills and one of the catches was that I had to waive late fees and past due charges. For over a year, the eviction moratorium was in place. Yes, my taxes pay for this. In addition, I can not collect what I am owed under a valid contract. I decided to be done with it. Real estate is high and I got out at the right time.
Good for you.
Slainte friend.
Curious … whom did you sell it to? Were the buyers tied to foreign interests? Just a theory about why the left did this to destroy property owners.
I THINK it part of “you will own nothing, and be happy!” Property ownership, for any but the high up party officials, has always been a “thing” and even though this latest rollout of CONmunism has different trappings, and “ideological” b.s.patter, I THINK its same old wine in brand new bottle.
“Its NOT a ‘Pyramid’ scheme,..as you can clearly see right here, it is a TRAPEZOID!” Great line.
Black rock has been the largest purchaser of rental properties.
With the coming increases, I may be in a world of hurt and not realize it.
And yet there is a place to fill in on my utility statement to donate funds for those who need help with their winter heating bills. I think I have donated enough.
Remove the sales group called elected representatives then pivot to the peoples house and remove THEY.
As long as the big guy , china joe gets his 10%.FJB.
“We’re gonna give you twenty acres and a mule.”
My dream is for these POSs to meet their creator and explain themselves!
Lesko Brandon was here!
Subsidies won’t matter when there is nothing to buy with them. If the fallout starts in two weeks as predicted, by the end of February it won’t matter- You can have a mountain of food stamps and heating handouts, but if there isn’t anything to buy with them you’ll be just as hungry and cold as everyone else.
Maybe that’s why to Soros DAs indicated that there would be no consequences in stealing across the nation’s blue cities.
Well, they CAN burn them to stay warm, for a LITTLE while, but can’t EAT them.
Dollars may be the same, worthless due to inflation, and can’t find any neccesities to buy.
Doesn’t even make very good toilet paper.
Maybe they should ask The Salvation Army for help. Oh…wait… /s
Seriously y’all… we should’ve made January 6th actually count.
Don’t blame me, I was cheering when a friend told me to tune into the radio and I heard about protesters entering the Capitol.
I was torn between dragging all 535, and their staffs out on Capital steps, and tar and feathering them, OR hanging them all from Capital rotunda bannister.
Seriously considered going, but due to that being my inclination, I stayed away.
Realising now, how EASY it would have been, IF ,. .
Maybe if Decertification happens and they refuse to give up power…………………………………………………
Candace Owens blasts AOC for bratty, immature response to critics – FOX NEWS VIDEO
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2022/01/candace-owens-blasts-aoc-for-bratty.html
Nothing is expensive when money can be created to pay for it.
That really is only true with proximity to the money printer.
See the Cantillion Effect.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect
There’s money and then there is currency. There is a difference between the two.
What they are printing is currency.
I don’t care, render unto caeser, that which caser printed.
They can’t take my soul.
Welcome to communism. The frogs in the pot have already boiled away.
At this point, what else can be said. Watching POtat0Joe, squinting, into a Teleprompter…… trying like hell, Man. Really, C’mon man. Not a joke.
Switch out Zoltan for Lysenko Fauci and Voila!
Zoltan
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KF73IJFmIRno/
What about the imminent supply chain contraction, if not collapse, how will those people be insulated then? They literally are burning money, hoping somebody will rescue them. This though can have an unfortunate side effect as it reminds me of a story a UN investigator told me. Whenever the Sunni minority were given extra subsidies or benefits by Saddam, at the expense of the Shia majority, the some would think, ‘gosh things must be getting bad if Saddam is bribing us again’.
Is this kind of shenanigans legal?
Of never mind, legality no longer applies.
One can never out pander a Democommunist.
$8 billion won’t go that far. They will be hitting the taxpayer trough again and hard.
https://www.westernjournal.com/final-death-blow-keystone-pipeline-judge-tosses-multi-state-lawsuit-fighting-bidens-job-killing-move/
valid.
All of us better read this bs carefully
Hubbs enjoys selling phones of family members after they upgrade. He has been doing this for years, retired and just finds great pleasure doing this because he helps people that want a good phone, and family members get the benefit of making money on their old phone… He mostly sells iphones but other electronics too, computers etc
Anyway, this is it. Today he announced he is done.
Biden will have the IRS after him if he sells more than $600 a year.
Democrats are dirtbags
$600 could easily be one or two of the more recent model cell phones given that the top of line newest models are commonly well over $1,000 retail.
Despicable.
Quit running his not-a-business thru a bank, cash only.
Those are the 47% that still think he’s doing a good job. And not returning to work.
Don’t say 47%. Willard Romney got into quite a bit of trouble for saying 47%.
It’s always been like that or at least for a very long time long before Obama. I remember always hearing about all these programs to help people eat, heat, etc but I never qualified for any of them. Not that I made a ton of money for sure, but always just a little too much to qualify. I have had times when food help would have been appreciated, but never qualified. It’s just as well because I am not good at pleading poverty or asking for help even if I need it…I take care of myself.
Let me guess: Most of Wuhan Virus will be to big blue cities, where his vote counters reside. Notice that’s vote counters and not necessarily voters. I am sure some commie mayors will set up major committees to give maybe 10 cents on the dollar to the poor folks and the rest will go to administrative costs..I mean coffers. Is the name of this program LIHEAP, or LIE Heap?
Yep.
And I think LIHHEAP was one of Elizabeth Warren’s monikers.
LIDENLEFTALOAD is one of Biden’s.
Here’s a great scam that’s been working. An unvaxd relative has been required to test weekly for the Kung Flu. Always neg. Last week, several people in their office were exposed to a vax’d sick covid positive employee. So, a new round of tests were handed out. Not having any symptoms and pretty disgusted by the whole thing, the guy swabbed one of his neighbor’s horses with the test kit before returning it.
Big surprise! Neg for covid
My Dr’s office sent in a unswabbed sample and it came back positive!
Yeah, if a GUAVA can test positive, I would think a horse could, too,…although you didn’t say WHICH END of the horse he swabbed?
You know that guy was killed in a “coup”
Ther was also money in the Trump COVID bill for LIHEAP. Don’t at me, I love Pres Trump I am just imparting knowledge.
LIHEAP=A Heap of Lies.
Like cuttin’ your face off to spite your nose.
Remind me again. Where are the elected GOP people?
If you have to ask.
Energy subsidies same as food subsidies. My tax dollars pay for it, and in turn I can’t afford energy and food cost unless I’m rich or sucking off the gov’t teet, of which I’m neither. Hmmm!
Re “These funds represent the largest appropriation in a single year since the program was established in 1981.”
appropriation = theft of taxpayer funds
No comment…
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-mcdonalds-kiosk-denies-man-service-over-vaccine-status
The Left creates energy poverty, then takes money from citizens to pay for their stupid policies. They are worse than 911, Pearl Harbor and the Civil War!
Gentlemen, do the math. 8 Billion subsidizing 20 Million = 400 $. 40 Million subsidized = 200 $. Small change!!
From my work experience as a pastor and behavioral health professional, these programs only target the poorest of the poor.
Cutoff income is usually about 10 an hour for singles. SNAP benefits are no help when the shelves are empty. Funding for these programs runs out quickly and waiting lists for subsidized housing are a year or more. Some waiting lists have been closed for the last year. Plus, each program has such a narrow window for qualifying that most people do not qualify. I
I’m saying all this to say that the huge portion of that redistributed wealth is going to state level bureaucrats. I’m in Tennessee. Your corruption may vary.
F O B J O B
“the mechanism to use taxpayer monies”? You mean Monopoly money. With $30 TRILLION in debt, there is no more real money. Just printed paper and entries on a ledger.
They will steal every dime, just like the Unemployment money.
I ate all of Joe’s lunch bucket.
Signed,
Rotund Ron Klain
This is what Democrats have done through public employee unions in every Blue State – they are a protected class that is in league with Democrats and taxpayers get the brunt of it.
China offers a discount if trade contrracts are in RMB . Cutting out the Us dollar for non us buyers. Example China , Australia deal. If contract in us dollars. BOTH Chinese and Australian company have to buy hedge on us currency to their local currency. Chinese company says if Aussie agreed to put contact in RMB. Chinese company does not have to hedge, passes cost saving to Aussie. Aussie still has to buy hedge but now it’s for RMB, cutting out us dollars. And gets free percent discount.