There is considerable buzz in Washington about the disclosures of Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin on controversial grants by the Biden Administration, including the $50 million environmental justice grant to an organization that believes “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.” However, one item was particularly notable: $160 million to a Canadian electric bus manufacturer which later announced bankruptcy without fulfilling the contract.
Both the Obama and Biden Administration wasted billions in loans and grants on green initiatives including the failed solar-panel company Solyndra and most recently the termination of the Ivanpah Solar Power Plant.
These projects often start with photo ops and virtue signaling that costs taxpayers billions in losses. What is missing is a modicum of economic and administrative judgment.
The Canadian electric bus company Lion Electric is such an example. Figures like Vice President Kamala Harris did repeated photo ops with electric buses as a defining issue. However, the company struggled from the start and the Biden Administration failed to take the most basic steps to protect taxpayer money. Rather than break up payments in segments based on actual production, Biden officials just sent the $160 million to the company.
The company is now shutting down without supplying $95 million in bus orders. The money is gone. Poof! and the company could vanish with the “Lion’s share” of U.S. public funds.
At the same time, the Administration pushed local and state governments to buy electric vehicles. Many blue cities went all-in but then had to spend more money to deal with the failures. Cities like Asheville, North Carolina, spent millions to buy more expensive electric buses only to find that they had to be recharged every 70 miles. Three out of five buses quickly broke down and could not be repaired because the company, Proterra, also filed for bankruptcy.
The concerning aspect of the Lion Corp payments is the apparent negligence of government officials in the handling of U.S. funds. Average Americans in contracting for their homes would require more assurances than what was allegedly demanded by the EPA.
Such accounts are likely to be cited in cases where Democratic groups are fighting to force agencies to continue to pay out money after court injunctions. The argument of the Trump Administration is that it wants to freeze expenditures as it reviews these contracts. In all likelihood, it will be able to accomplish such inspections and reviews as this litigation shakes out in the courts. It may result in some resumption of funding in the interim either by court order or waivers from the Administration, as done for health programs under the US AID.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
The irony of this post is that abruptly freezing federal payments will cause MORE contractors to go out of business, resulting in more of these situations.
So, the government’s solution should not be to freeze payments if they wish to minimize future bankruptcies.
$160 million to get a virtue signaling photo op
Musk and his merry band of teenage hackers are doing a great job over at the new doge.gov website.
At a press conference in the Oval Office this week, Elon Musk promised the actions of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project would be “maximally transparent,” thanks to information posted to its website.
At the time of his comment, the DOGE website was empty. However, when the site finally came online yesterday morning, it turned out to be little more than a glorified feed of posts from the official DOGE account on Musk’s own X platform, raising new questions about Musk’s conflicts of interest in running DOGE.
DOGE.gov claims to be an “official website of the United States government,” but rather than giving detailed breakdowns of the cost savings and efficiencies Musk claims his project is making, the homepage of the site just replicated posts from the DOGE account on X.
A review of the page’s source code shows that the promotion of Musk’s own platform went deeper than replicating the X posts on the homepage. The source code shows that the site’s canonical tags direct search engines to x.com rather than DOGE.gov.
A canonical tag is a snippet of code that tells search engines what the authoritative version of a website is. It is typically used by sites with multiple pages as a search engine optimization tactic, to avoid their search ranking being diluted.
In DOGE’s case, however, the code is informing search engines that when people search for content found on DOGE.gov, they should not show those pages in search results, but should instead display the posts on X.
“It is promoting the X account as the main source, with the website secondary,” Declan Chidlow, a web developer, tells WIRED. “This isn’t usually how things are handled, and it indicates that the X account is taking priority over the actual website itself.”
All the other US government websites WIRED checked used their own homepage in their canonical tags, including the official White House website. Additionally, when sharing the DOGE website on mobile devices, the source code creates a link to the DOGE X account rather than the website itself.
“It seems that the DOGE website is secondary, and they are prodding people in the direction of the X account everywhere they can,” Chidlow adds.
So basically, the doge.gov website is nothing more than a cheap trick to drive traffic to the X website.
Obviously, X is failing and Musk is desperate to increase traffic so that he can charge more for advertising.
Not only is the doge.gov website just a shill for X, it is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”
Two different web development experts who asked to remain anonymous because they were probing a federal website told 404 Media that doge.gov is seemingly built on a Cloudflare Pages site that is not currently hosted on government servers. The database it is pulling from can be, and has been, written to by third parties, and will show up on the live website.
Both sources said that they noticed Doge.gov is pulling from a Cloudflare Pages website, where the code that runs it is actually deployed.
Anyone with sufficient knowledge of coding can access the source code and write whatever they want, and the changes immediately appear on the live website.
Obviously Musk really did mean that DOGE will be completely open.
Let’s not forget that negligence in handling public funds is a civil claim at best and criminal malfeasance at worst. Let the clawbacks begin.
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The defunct busses can be repurposed as homes for the homeless. Invest in curtains .
Great Idea. Shipping containers also work.
Always nice to see the leftists here and there spinning, projecting, and deflecting the issues presented in the main article.
They’re funny. Clown-like.
It only took One word (1) to explain this ripoff, “Canadian”.
There is a huge sucking sound coming out of Canada and it’s coming from the Bank of England.
Governments around the world do nothing but ‘front’ for Bankers. Ours is one of the worst.
(e.g.: the Government is a front for Bankers [.] Wake Up to the facts of Life)
All the rest that follows (Courts, Regulatory Agencies, Tax Authorities, Congress … are a guises)
They say: Money makes the World go round. Well They sure as hell know how to spin it!
These assessments done by Trump are long overdue! Biden’s actions make Watergate seem trivial! He might be lucky that his memory is diminished because he will probably not be investigated. He’d honestly could take the 5th!
As to the Democrat party — it is time for the moderates to grab hold of the party and force the screamers off the airways! They are an embarrassment to themselves and the Party. They have done damage by their hate, one line scripted comments and aggression that the moderates of this Party deserve. Schumer, Warren etc. look ridiculous and have no platform. Jefferies would be wise to say that he will work with Trump when he can and that he wants the government to be free of illegitimate handouts. Of course, he will not because he knows too well where the corruption lies.
Bravo Trump for leading his team and using all the resources available to sort this mess out. Can anyone on this thread imagine running your own personal finances like this? And your businesses? Who would bail you out? I took a load out for my company during COVID and while I honor the payback of the debt, it is galling to see the illegals getting so much for free as I pay for the loan every month. This is why so many of feel the Dems are useless and are thankful that Trump is sorting out this mess. I hope he posts all the graft and misuse of money on every front page of publications throughout the country. We need a public accounting and for each of us to hold the politicians and the institutions that they support accountable for their blatant disregard of their duties and mismanagement of public funds.
Wow! Your lace panties are in a royal twist.
RFK Jr says we should focus on healthy lunches for kids. Yea yell the MAGA crowd
Michele Obama says we should focus on healthy lunches for kids. Get out of my kids lives yells the MAGA crowd.
Racist much?
MAHA started when the Dems kicked RFK Jr out of their party and the MAGA crowd adopted him. Nothing to do with racism.
So why is MAGA cheering for healthy lunches for RJK Jr and yelling at Michele Obama for the same proposal?
I’m not sure why that is such a difficult question for you to answer. The answer is always in looking at the results. It’s really not much different from the two pronouncements, one by Obama and one by Trump:
We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
Together we will Make America Great Again.
When I heard Obama’s, I wasn’t inspired because no one asked the follow up question: Into what? But others were simply bedazzled by the utterance and assumed (hoped) for the best. It isn’t until we look at the results that we can truly assess whether to applaud or denounce the plan.
Trump’s is also a statement of “fundamental transformation”. It goes further in specifying what his vision is. The obvious question: How does he envision greatness? That question has been asked and answered. RFK Jr.’s MAHA vision for America speaks of healthy lunches, and now we will be looking for results.
We got MAGA and we got MAHA precisely because Obama/Biden policies achieved the opposite effect what the people were led to expect. The health of our children mirrors the health of our country and this administration has a vision to fix that across the board.
Because she never mentioned anything about the chemicals in our food, she never talked about big Pharma, she never talked about going after any companies that were hurting us and because she is “youngish”, overweight and nasty while RFK is older, congenial and in tip top shape.
Is Michelle still around. I thought she had retired to her Mansion.
Pathetic much.
Michelle Obama’s idea was a good one. But what she did not do was to get junk food out of schools. She also tried to limit the amount of food the students could eat. It was so unpopular with the students, they quickly learned the lesson of how supply vs demand works, capitalism and the “black market” as students would bring things from home to trade for or sell. Watch the 2014 documentary Fed Up.
“Racist much?”
No, particularly not if Michelle is a man.
Why can’t someone be held responsible for this? And go to jail?
And all I need is $3M to buy a piece of property to donate and connect for open space–the only other thing that will be needed is man (and woman) power to keep the area cleaned up for walking. Just $3M–it seems like a drop in the bucket after what I have been reading today. $50M to bankrupt companies, $50M to charities that make me think my yarn balls are easier to untangle. If I did not watch my household budget, I would be filing for bankruptcy.
“We have to pass the bill before we’ll know what’s in it”. Shut everything down, publicly go line by line before any expenditure of funds leave our treasury.
Shut everything down, publicly go line by line before any expenditure of funds leave our treasury.
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On a related note ordo amoris was brilliantly injected into our body politic by VP JD Vance. In brief, Americans have embraced prioritizing the world while rejecting their true first love, God, then self, then family, then proximal neighbor then distal neighbor. St Thomas Aquinas argued as such in the Summa Theologiae when he expounded on Saint Augustine’s teaching on the same topic in his influential book The City of God
For decades the US Treasury Department has been dispersing funds to entities based on socialist principles and not on the principles of the US Founding Fathers who were influenced by St Augustine, as all Western nations were.
Catholic philosopher, Dr Edward Feser explains:
Edward Feser
@FeserEdward
The view that one has the same duties to all human beings, rather than special duties to those closest, in no way reflects a conception of human beings as social animals. On the contrary, it is a product of liberalism’s radical individualism, which takes us to have no obligations to anyone at all other than those we choose to have, in a social contract. Only given this background assumption (made either explicitly or implicitly) does it seem arbitrary to favor one’s own family or countrymen. For the “contract” liberalism says we ought to agree to is one made with human beings in general rather than with any specific individuals.
Socialism, which absorbs all into one gigantic social blob, is thus the offspring of liberalism, not its opposite. It is a grotesque distortion of man’s social nature, an opposite extreme error from the error of individualism. The correct view (common to Confucius, Aristotle, Aquinas, and the common sense of mankind in general) is that our social nature and its consequent obligations manifest themselves first and foremost in the family, then in local communities, then in the nation as a whole, and only after that in our relationship to mankind in general. A genuine post-liberalism must also be post-socialist.
https://x.com/FeserEdward/status/1885054055040663722
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Actually the US was built on protestant beliefs. It’s evident how well RC did in Latin America 😂.
Btw, Trump’s sec of treasury has a husband and two children. They used a woman for that. USED. She’s a used woman. Ordo amoris? There’s immoral laws on the books. The US is doomed.
“In brief, Americans have embraced prioritizing the world while rejecting their true first love, God, then self, then family, then proximal neighbor then distal neighbor. ”
Well done for proving Estovir’s point
#1. The US rejects RC as non-Christian with idols focusing on suffering and punishment.
Fyi.
#1. Sado masochism disguised as Christians.
There’s joy in the risen Christ. Try that focus.
Oh oh don’t hurt me for my point of view.
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Oh, I hope you’re feeling better.
#1. Face it, it’s a vile and adulterous generation, Estovir, so let’s not drag God around where God is not. It’s doomed.
Estovir, below is a statement by Anonymous that is partially acceptable but not perfected:
“Actually, the U.S. was built on Protestant beliefs.”
Man builds many things, but most fade into obscurity. Instead of focusing on what was built, we should examine what endures. The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau made a striking observation about the longevity of a nation:
“The Jews provide us with an astonishing spectacle: the laws of Numa, Lycurgus, Solon are dead; the very much older laws of Moses are still alive. Athens, Sparta, Rome have perished and no longer have children left on earth; Zion, destroyed, has not lost its children…. What must be the strength of legislation capable of working such wonders, capable of braving conquests, dispersions, revolutions, exiles, capable of surviving the customs, laws, empire of all the nations…to last as long as the world?… Any man, whosoever he is, must acknowledge this as a unique marvel, the causes of which, divine or human, certainly deserve the study and admiration of the Sages, in preference to all that Greece and Rome offer.”
Rousseau noted the endurance of Jewish law, that while the legal systems of other great nations of the past faded as did their civilizations, yet the laws of Moses remain. He didn’t state if their survival was due to divine will or human resilience.
The answer is clear in Jewish tradition: Brit Sinai—the covenant at Mount Sinai.
“If you obey Me fully and keep My covenant…” (Exodus 19:5)
The Torah’s morality in the commandments and mitzvot formed a sacred bond transcending time and place, which ensured Jewish continuity.
We are left with the question, What preserves a people, solely the laws or the total commitment to upholding them?
Funny that so many Democrat Trolls are out today and none want to talk about Turley’s observation and question. Joe Biden has been known for his selling of influence and corruption for decades and then he gets elected President and guess what happens. We get monstrous corruption with failing “green” energy plants, gold bars “rolling off the Titanic”, 59 millions dollars going to plush NYC hotels for illegal immigrants and on and on and on. USAid which was enriching many people but not sure who at this point. The President of the NGO that actually let the old lady in Thailand die “without her oxygen” had a salary of 1.3 million dollars and somehow that could not find it’s way to Thailand.
You know the British shot admiral Byng for losing to the French off Minorca in the Seven Year War. Mainly to “encourage the rest of the admirals to fight”(paraphrase).
My question is are we at the time now where we bring some miscreant administrators in and place them in stocks all along Pennsylvania Ave. Probably would be enough to color the highways all the way to Manassas Battlefield. I would not want to shoot them (much) and I am civilized so stocks should be enough. However if we just keep finding more and more of this then we might need to rethink that punishment.
I would also bring joe in and have a mental status exam and see if he truly mentally incompetent. If so then I would seek to make a case that his pardons were illegal and should be overturned. Probably won’t happen but the attempt would probably cause diarrhea to break out in all sorts of homes around DC. Might overwhelm the sewer system
“I would also bring joe in and have a mental status exam.” Huh? Under what authority could one “bring” joe in?
Anonymous9:49AM
A confidential call to Adult Protective Services alleging abuse of an elder and his finances. Adult Protective services of Wilmington would no doubt spring into action and remove him from the scene of the possible crime while he is examined and assessed. (Sarcasm) But one could hope.
GEB,
Well said. They are losing and they know it. Trump, Musk and DOGE are exposing the fraud, waste and abuse. They are succeeding. They are winning. Of course the leftist Democrats are in a meltdown. The trolls have to attempt to hijack the good professor’s blog as he is and has been pointing out all the corruption and failures of the Democrat party.
Leftists are at Stage 2 (of 5) in their grief. It never once occured to them they’d ever be out of power. They simply don’t know what to do now other than lash out at everyone, including their own kind.
JAFO,
The question I have is will some move on through the stages of grief or hold on to the anger stage? Just read one or two of Dennis, Gigi or the anonymoron and they seem filled with anger and rage.
Upstate, I would be pleasantly surprised and welcome the likes of Dennis and Natacha (thought we forgot your real name Gigi?) into the realm of reality if they ever choose to drop their Lefty ways. But I’m not holding my breath, either.
JAFO, I don’t believe they can move through the stages of grief because their loss is more than just power. Their very existence is dependent on foreign and domestic welfare policies. President Trump’s America First administration is in the process of dismantling that entire welfare infrastructure by finally exposing the massive waste, fraud and abuse that those policies have produced. Once the American people become fully aware of how we got to $36 Trillion in debt and who was responsible, the Democratic party will not have just lost power. They will have lost the very “shadow” bureaucratic infrastructure that propped up their party platform.
More evidence of a credulous Biden. When Trump engages in misdirection he makes you think he is your friend. In the end, if you think Trump can be trusted, you’re the mark. Laterally transfer this to Biden.
that’s an interesting take from this article.
Remember this?
“Grocery prices have skyrocketed. When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.”
the guy that said that was sworn in to office on Jan 20, almost a month ago. In my book, a month is more than one day. I could be wrong on that one but I’m pretty sure one day is much less than a month.
How are prices doing? Did you get your wish yet?
Anybody who actually believed that was/is an idiot. What we are getting is even better: a chance to slash the bloat in DC.
“How are prices doing?”
Though your comment is OT, it is unintendedly *on topic*.
“$50 million environmental justice grant” and “$160 million to a Canadian electric bus manufacturer . . .” A few hundred million more there. A few billion here . . .
That’s all in fiat money, — phony money that causes inflation, bakes inflation into the economy, inflation that has long-term devastating consequences.
But as with all spoiled children, Leftists demand that Trump fix a mess they caused — and fix it Now!
Exactly. Inflation is a difficult concept for people to grasp. Your explanation may be needed another two dozen times.
Folks, you just read the latest test drive of the frustrated Democrats, desperate, including Cnn to find an issue to jab Trump on – and deflect attention from all the remarkable initiatives, successes and findings of the Trump Administration. “Look at all the incredible failures and wastes of Biden time….” ” But inflation….” “Millions, billions misspent, wasted….” ” But infla….”. “Grants to DEI in Somalja and….” “But infla….”
There you go again sally, playing the karen again.
Did you seriously believe he could do 4 years of damage in one day, Sal, dear?
you’re a fool Sally. You democrats have learned nothing in 8 years.
I can see that you’ve given us a lot of thought. Yes, a day is less than a month. Your mistake is that you take Trump literally. Not even his most ardent supporters would believe that he could lower prices on day one. Check back in a year and see how things are going.
What does your comment have to do with electric busses?
If Bidenomics where not such a massive disaster leading to Bidenflation we would not have this problem in the first place. As I have stated before, it will be years we will be feeling the effects of Bidenflation.
In my book,
Then your library needs an update. Don’t be a dolt. 25 days in office and current inflation is now Trump’s fault? 😂
The economy isn’t controlled by turning a dial on a thermostat. Inflation today is the product of policy months and years in the making.
OLLY,
That comment is an example of the lack of critical thinking by our leftist friends. Just like they kept saying, “but inflation is down!” and never mentioning the fact that inflation is cumulative. Nor will they mention the yearly inflation rate and the total inflation rate of all four years of Trumps first admin and then compare it to Bidens.
“Inflation today is the . . .”
Exactly.
But to the “now” mentality, history is what they ate for dinner last night.
“Environmentalism” — a quasi-religious word that justifies every kind of lunacy, abuse, waste, stupidity, cruelty and even sadistic acts. Not just people suffer. The Ivanpah Solar Plant reportedly incinerates 6000 birds a year. https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-deaths-20160831-snap-story.html Do “environmentalists care? Of course not. They are demonstrating their moral superiority.
Environmentalism and the so called ‘climate change’ are not found in the Constitution. The federal government has no authority to legislate these issues. It doesn’t matter if Congress created an agency and appropriates money for it. Congress violated the Constitution by doing so. Everything Congress does must be in pursuance of the Constitution or it’s illegal.
lgbmiel, So I assume you disagree with Supreme Court cases that have generally upheld Federal programs under the general welfare and commerce clauses in the Constitution (for example Helvering v Davis (1937) and Wickard v Filburn (1942)).
I disagree with the creature trying to define its creator.
The Constitution was defined by the Framers and the states ratified what the Framers defined.
All of government must use the Framers’ definition or they are violating the Constitution.
The government has no authority to expand the powers delegated by the Constitution. It is limited to the enumerated powers and the meaning of the words at the time of ratification.
Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines “welfare” as:
“2. Exemption from any unusual evil or calamity; the enjoyment of peace and prosperity, or the ordinary blessings of society and civil government; applied to states.”
In Federalist No. 41 (last 4 paras), Madison points out that Art. I, § 8, employs “general terms” which are “immediately” followed by the “enumeration of particular powers” which “explain and qualify”, by a “recital of particulars”, the “general phrase”. It is “error” to focus on “general expressions” and disregard “the specifications which ascertain and limit their import”; thus, to argue that the general expression provides an unlimited power is “an absurdity”.
General Welfare is not a delegation of power, it’s the reason the government raises revenue. To pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare.
Article I Section 8 are the specific enumerated powers, it is how the government may provide for the common defense and general welfare.
Webster’s 1828 Dictionary says “commerce” is the buying and selling of goods.
In Federalist No. 22 (4th para) and Federalist No. 42 (9th & 10th paras), Hamilton and Madison explain the primary purpose of the clause: To prohibit the States from imposing taxes & tolls on merchandize as it is transported through the States for purposes of buying and selling
Citations from Publius-Huldah blog.
Courts cannot expand that power, they cannot redefine how the Framers defined the enumerated powers. Doing that violates the Constitution.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Jefferson said the 10th is the foundation of the Constitution.
Courts and Congress have usurped numerous state powers.
Two of my favorite Jefferson quotes:
You seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges … and their power [are] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and are not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves … . When the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves. …. — Letter to Mr. Jarvis, Sept, 1820
This case of Marbury and Madison is continually cited by bench and bar, as if it were settled law, without any animadversions on its being merely an obiter dissertation of the Chief Justice … . But the Chief Justice says, “there must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.” True, there must; but … . The ultimate arbiter is the people …. — Letter to Judge William Johnson, June 1823 Tenth Amendment Center
Thanks for the response and additional information. I find it interesting that as late as 1823 that Jefferson is questioning Marbury v Madison (1803), especially when that decision is so widely accepted today. Also, not sure how as a practical matter it works that the people are the ultimate arbiter of constitutional questions. On the Webster 1828 definitions, I assume that’s the best we have and nothing even earlier.
He questioned it because the Constitution doesn’t delegate that power to the judiciary. It was a usurpation of power, judicial review is not found in the Constitution. Nor is the judiciary being the final arbiter of Constitutionality found in the Constitution.
Hamilton said in the Federalist Papers that the judiciary — including SCOTUS — is the weakest branch. Congress controls the purse and the power of legislation. The Executive wields the sword — the power to execute and enforce. The judiciary has only the power to offer judgement. Their rulings are not law, only opinion. The judiciary has no power to enforce their opinions.
The federal government does not have power over the Constitution. The creature doesn’t control its creator.
The People are the final arbiters because only the People have the power to create, alter, or abolish government. The People, via their states, wrote and ratified the Constitution. The states are supposed to interpose themselves between the People and unconstitutional acts by the federal government.
The Constitution is the creature of the People via their states. People/states = creators; Constitution = creature.
I found an 1806 Websters, it defines general as: common, usual, public, extensive, large. Welfare is defined as happiness, prosperity, success, health.
So, general welfare would be the common and usual happiness, prosperity, success, and health of the public at large.
Pretty much what the 1828 edition says.
General – all or the whole
Wel – well
Fare – proceed
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All Well Proceed
Fare Thee Well, All!
Right this minute VP Vance is speaking of free speech – eloquently and properly – in Munich.
USAID is unconstitutional. The EPA is unconstitutional. All foreign aid is unconstitutional. Show me the Constitutional authority. Cite the Constitution.
why don’t you go find it yourself?
That is impossible, except “general welfare”, maybe, but that rabbit is long gone. Jefferson is not here for 200 years.
General welfare of the states does not involve giving money to foreign entities. That would be the very opposite of general welfare of the states.
That is my whole point. End all these unconstitutional depts and agencies. There is no Constitutional authority for them.
This is what happens when government makes decisions where to “invest” taxpayer’s money. It’s only an “investment” when there is personal risk of loss. Wouldn’t it be great if I could use my neighbor’s money to invest, personally accrue any gains, but have my neighbor be on the hook for all losses? It would be interesting to follow the money awarded to these now bankrupt companies to see if any, and how much, flowed back to government officials as campaign or PAC “contributions”.
Your definition is wrong about investment. What if I take a college course for my career. That’s an investment. its not about money as a factor. If I invest in flower seeds fro my garden, what did I just do? Invest!
“Your definition is wrong about investment.”
Says the one who apparently never learned that the definition of a word depends on the context in which it’s used.
Yes, but you are using and risking your own money. That’s the point.
We can count on WaPo, Maddog, et al., for that….! (Maddog was firing up the crowd for $400M to Tesla, without revealing that was Biden’s deal.)
P.S. Responding to Vincente.
If you cannot distinguish between the outcomes caused by evil and those caused by garden variety stupidity, maybe stupidity IS evil, especially in positions of responsibility and power.
1st stupid check of the morning.