The buck never stops with President Biden, who is trying to convince voters that inflated gas prices are not caused by inflation that stems from massive government spending, but when Russia invades its neighbor.
Yet inflation was raging across the board, from rent to electricity bills, food and even clothing, long before Vlad the Putin went to war.
There’s just no getting around the fact that government’s wild spending spree in the American Rescue Plan Act is also to blame for America’s pain.
Adding insult to injury, now we learn that state and local governments have spent at least $1 billion worth of coronavirus aid on pork projects like ballparks, hotels, ski slopes, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, reports the Associated Press.
The expenditures amount to a fraction of the $350 billion made available through last year’s American Rescue Plan to help state and local governments weather the crisis. But they are examples of uses of the aid that are inconsistent with the rationale that Democrats offered for the record $1.9 trillion bill: The cash was desperately needed to save jobs, help those in distress, open schools and increase vaccinations.
So not only is Biden to blame, but so are members of Congress who voted in favor of this bill without any protections against pork spending.
That includes all of Colorado’s Democrat delegation: U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, U.S. Reps. Jason Crow, Joe Neguse, Ed Perlmutter, and of course, Diana DeGette.
Did Colorado pork up its share? You be the judge.
Included among the projects and expenditures identified by @AP:
—$6.6 million to replace irrigation systems at two golf courses in Colorado Springs.
—$2 million to help Pottawattamie County, Iowa, purchase a privately owned ski area.https://t.co/lnEqokQoIr
— Sam Metz (@metzsam) March 23, 2022
Just to be clear, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, Colorado Springs Republican, voted against the bill.
To read the list of the outrageous projects that were funded while hospitals were overwhelmed, including millions spent on tourism marketing, meter maids in Washington, D.C., and overdue child support, click here.
As long as Biden and the Democrat Party keep trying to spend their way out of inflation, the buck will stop with them.