Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve

Another Health Plague – Congress’s Spending Disease and Corona Virus

February 27, 2020 By Debbie Young

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) offers remarks during a ceremony announcing the Library of Congress as the new home of the AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive, November 20, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.

In another show of political opportunism, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have yet another gripe. This time it’s funding for fighting Corona Virus, reports the WSJ.

  • Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request “long overdue and completely inadequate.”
  • Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the Administration’s proposal to tap some of the money from an Ebola preparedness account an example of Mr. Trump’s “towering incompetence.”

We’d take these complaints seriously if they were based on any expertise or factual understanding of the threat. Instead, they’re ritualized gripes intended to set up the politics to make the bill a blowout and dare Mr. Trump to veto virus funds.

Corona Virus Turns into Pork Barrel Politics

The Schumer-Pelosi gambit is to load up the supplemental bill with other health spending, whether for state grants, federal research funds, or even aid for Puerto Rico’s disaster survivors.

While in New Delhi, President Trump was asked about the criticism back home. If he had requested more money, Trump replied, Democrats would have argued that it was too much.

Democrats Getting Ready to Blame Trump

(President Trump) has a point, though our guess is that Democrats are preparing the ground to blame the Administration if the coronavirus spreads. The virus may well get worse, which is why the funding request anticipates more cases.

Alas, there is no cure for cynicism in the service of pork-barrel politics.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Canada Health Care – a “Yooman” Right
  • Health Care Time Bomb
  • Obama's Spending Joyride
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • The IRS’s Hassle Tax: Spend More on Compliance - August 16, 2022
  • Nancy in Taiwan, Paul Pelosi in Court? - August 15, 2022
  • Don’t Republicans Feel Stupid Now? - August 15, 2022

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • “An Epic Struggle Over the Definition of America”
  • Rich Grandchild, Poor Grandchild
  • The Swiss Way
  • “The Losses are Taking a Toll on Their Health”
  • Mises and Rothbard Finally Get Their Due
  • The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope
  • Why Some Kids Won’t Go Back to School, Ever
  • The Armed American Family: Part I
  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • The Claremont Institute: Protecting the American Way of Life

Our Most Popular Posts

  • CDC Admits It Was All A Lie
  • BECK: The Democrats' Dangerous FBI Raid Endgame
  • If It Smells Fishy … ?
  • DEMOCRATS PLAY DIRTY: Megynn Kelly Calls Bulls#$t on "Classified Documents" Story
  • Who Benefits from and Orchestrated the Trump Raid?
  • The Great Jon Rappoport on Kari Lake
  • Thanks to America's Worst President
  • Our Commander-in-Chief Fumbles On
  • WATCH: Doocy Breaks Jean-Pierre with Trump Raid Questions "No Comment"
  • DOJ Career Officers Disgusted by Garland's Political Raid on Trump

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • DEVASTATION: Tsunami Simulation Study Frightens Coastal Dwellers
  • Where’s All the Natural Gas Going to Come From?
  • Fear is a Terrible Emotion: How You Deal with It MATTERS
  • The Victims of a Decade of Easy Money
  • What Happens if the Chinese Blockade Taiwan?
  • Buying A Boat: Who’s Looking Out for You?
  • Is It Time to Talk About the Defects of Index Funds Now?
  • Your Survival Guy’s Favorite Number is 72: Here’s Why
  • Disney Catches Netflix in Streaming Wars
  • PRIMARY RESULTS: Pro-Trump Candidates Clean Up

The Claremont Institute: Protecting the American Way of Life

Thanks to America’s Worst President

The IRS’s Hassle Tax: Spend More on Compliance

DEVASTATION: Tsunami Simulation Study Frightens Coastal Dwellers

ROBERTS: “Today Education Is a Form of Brainwashing”

CARLSON: “This Is Not the Way Civilized Countries Operate”

Copyright © 2022 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives