Pelosi's huge spending plan would push U.S. further toward socialism

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.)

Over the past 17 months, the United States has been thrown into the depths of a massive money pit as COVID-19 generated historically high spending from the federal government. To date, Congress has allocated nearly $6 trillion in taxpayer funds to fight this invisible enemy and help the American people get back on their feet.

But as we reach the final chapter of this pandemic, Washington Democrats see this recent trend as an opportunity to open the federal financial floodgates forever and destroy any semblance of the America we know and love.

That’s where we currently stand with Speaker Pelosi’s latest tax-and-spend boondoggle, which would raise our national debt to an all-time level and produce a “no-end-in-sight” vision for dependence on federal government assistance.

While concerns for the state of our national debt long precede the Biden administration, Democrats’ insurmountable love for excessive spending is alarming and can’t be overstated. The United States’ debt currently stands at over $28 trillion, more than any other country on Earth and pales in comparison to our foreign adversaries such as Communist China.

This is both troubling and immensely frustrating to American taxpayers who work hard to balance their own budgets at home.

One look at this new idea — another $3.5 trillion in unnecessary spending — and most would say this is unwise.

A quick read of Speaker Pelosi’s enormous budget proposal and disastrous plans rise from the pages: amnesty for illegal immigrants, costly Green New Deal mandates and, of course, massive unnecessary spending.

Trillions of additional spending for liberal wish list items is unwelcome news to American households who have already witnessed inflation wipe out wage gains achieved under the Trump administration. Gas prices have increased by almost a dollar per gallon, costs for basic staples such as bread and fruit are up, and the rise in school supply expenses — as our children head back to in-person learning this fall — continue to burden families as they battle the closing chapter of this pandemic. Pouring on more fuel to the fire of inflation by going into debt further and printing money we don’t have will only make matters worse. So why would Democrats do this?

They are fighting for the extreme left-wing agenda of their party, led by rhetoric from Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Speaker Pelosi.

Joe Biden and Speaker Pelosi are intent on catering to the demands of socialist Washington Democrats and ballooning the federal government to an unimaginable size.

Pelosi made it clear back in June she would hold up the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure proposal to push through her disastrous plan in the House, declaring, “There ain't gonna be no bipartisan bill, unless we have a reconciliation bill.”

Could there be any confusion regarding her intentions? It’s clear the Squad and their radical, socialist agenda have taken over Pelosi and the Democratic party, making their platform the new mainstream vision.

This is madness and negates all of the progress made under the previous administration.

The United States is the home of the American Dream — not the socialist nightmare.

President Trump laid down the marker during his infamous 2019 State of the Union speech: “America will never be a socialist country.”

Sadly, the Biden Administration seems intent on erasing that marker by embracing the tax-and-spend socialist agenda — one that has never proven successful in any country where it has taken its citizens captive with its deceptive spell.

Just look at recent events in Cuba, where its citizens are enraged and loudly protesting against decades of socialist rule which has thrown the country into chaos, despair and immense suffering. Is that what we want for the future of America?

We must reject this hoax and stand strong for freedom, individual liberty and fiscal responsibility. These principles have made our country great and it is these values that must prevail.

Socialist spending schemes like the one before us cripple this precious idea. They must be rejected by current and future generations and those elected to represent them in Congress.