Emergency! An alliance of singular interest puts an iceberg in America's path

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.

It seems every day these days, the news begins with an emergency! When Joe Biden took office, he demanded that an emergency existed and had to be dealt with immediately concerning the economy, after the Covid epidemic. Biden’s administration cobbled together Democratic Party initiatives which in ordinary constitutional procedure might comprise dozens of different legislative bills, and made it into one: “The American Rescue Plan,” which contained directives and spending dealing with hundreds of different Democratic constituencies, all of which the taxpayers need to fund. The bill passed breathlessly by a vote of 219 Democrats – 0 Republicans in the House; and 50 Democrats – 0 Republicans in the Senate. Thus, based on an “emergency,” $1.9 Trillion dollars was approved for spending, at the hard-working U.S. taxpayer’s expense.

Then there was another emergency: Global warming threatens life itself per the consensus opinion of nearly all the government-funded scientists in the United States, and if emergency measures were not taken immediately, the planet and everyone on it would die. The initial Climate Warming bill did not pass because of one Democratic senator’s refusal to vote for it.

So, yet another emergency was proclaimed, and this one was true, because the Democratic Party created the emergency of a staggering rise in inflation with its concerted attacks on America’s energy sector. Therefore, “The Inflation Reduction Act” was cobbled together from all the same initiatives and spending that existed in the original Climate Bill, and it passed breathlessly by a vote of 220 Democrats – 0 Republicans in the House; and 51Democrats – 0 Republicans in the Senate. And, $1.4 Trillion dollars was approved for spending, at the hard-working U.S. taxpayer’s expense.

Both massive pieces of spending legislation and the $3.3 Trillion seized from taxpayers perform two functions: they redistribute wealth from U.S. taxpayers to Democratic Party constituencies and they redistribute power, from the American people, their localities, their States and their representatives to the federal Administrative State.

Some of the redistribution of wealth will be government distributions of $369 Billion in “clean energy” investments. Billions of dollars will be spent through inner city slush funds for the adverse impacts of climate change, whatever that means. And the IRS will be given $60 Billion to hire 10,000 new IRS employees, and will also invest in artificial intelligence technology to make the government more efficient than any citizens accounting firm, who have to defend their clients from the IRS.

The redistribution of power will go through 435 federal agencies including the EPA, the FBI, the IRS, the SEC and the rest of government’s ocean-sized alphabet soup employing 1,776,587 bureaucrats with lifetime appointments, who are answerable to no one. Those employees in turn have inside relationships with Washington D.C.’s 12,122 lobbyists, who share a singular interest with the Democratic Party regarding how to spend the hard-working U.S. taxpayer’s money.

We just went through the throes of yet another emergency, a budget impasse which threatens to begin a government shutdown. When you add the Biden Administration’s spending together, we arrive at an annual outlay of taxpayer wealth to and through the Administrative State of $6,208 Trillion for fiscal year 2024. As the Republican Party won the House of Representatives majority in 2022, they reasonably wish to honor the will of their constituents and reduce the out-of-control spending of Washington D.C… Enter the new emergency.

If Republicans seek to reduce the federal budget by so much as a deck chair from our Titanic government’s spending, the media will trot out the single mothers and orphans who are on the WIC program, and the 65,000,000 people who are on the SNAP program, and the millions of students in the student loan program, and even the IRS, whose employees might miss a paycheck, until the government reopens. The media, the Democratic Party and the Administrative state will exercise every muscle and every emotion to let the public know that if one dollar is removed from their budget, our Titanic government will sink with every passenger on it…

There is a REAL emergency in America today. It is the singular alliance between the Democratic Party, the Administrative State and the media, all of whom are devoted to the growth of government at the expense of every hard-working U.S. taxpayer.

There is a greater emergency, it is the concentration of power between one political party (which has lost majorities at the state and local level over the past couple of decades) and the Administrative State of that party, with no means remaining to stop its progress. With the system operated by this singular alliance, in furtherance of their singular interest, the wealth of America is being locked into Democrat Party budgets, the power of government in America is being locked up in the Administrative State, while the people of America, their localities, their States and their representatives are being locked out.

The Biden administration has added $6 Trillion dollars to our national debt in three years. Since 2008, Democratic Party emergencies have contributed to a federal debt that’s risen from $10 Trillion to $33 Trillion and counting. This is creating another population who are unrepresented in their own government, owing to this singular alliance. America’s unborn population has no representation and no choice about how to pay the Titanic debt they will inherit, as their government hurdles towards an iceberg; or they may be born to a ship of state that’s already sunk.

With this singular alliance in power, there’s an iceberg right ahead…

Richard C. Lyons, author of The DNA of Democracy: Volume I and Shadows of the Acropolis: Volume II is a third generation printer, whose early career centered on religious and special education publishing. Lyons has since engaged in literary pursuits as a poet, essayist, screenwriter and indie publisher.

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