There was one time that my wife and I bought a new car a couple of years ago and we had the final price pretty much agreed on. We went to go sign the paperwork and there was something that we noticed that didn’t seem right.
There was some optional feature that we didn’t ask for, and later actually had removed, that they were trying to charge us for. We got up to walk away until they agreed to take the price off. You have to be careful of people who try to put added costs into things.
Same thing going with this new stimulus bill. 1.9 billion is a hell of a lot of money and you have to wonder how Democrats are trying to carve it up for themselves.
There were two key takeaways I had from watching President Biden’s town hall meeting on CNN last Tuesday. First, this is a man who shouldn’t be around anything sharper than a computer mouse. Second, when it comes to a COVID relief bill, he wants to go big.
You would think this would go without saying, given this is $1.9 trillion of spending. However, Biden made it clear everyone was in his corner when it came to making it rain.
Well, maybe not clear, but perhaps obvious is the better word: “I’m committed to pass — look, here’s — some of you are probably economists or college professors or you’re teaching in school,” Biden told host Anderson Cooper, according to a White House transcript.
“This is the first time in my career — and as you can tell, I’m over 30 — the first time in my career that there is a consensus among economists left, right, and center that is over — and including the IMF and in Europe — that the overwhelming consensus is: In order to grow the economy a year or two, three, and four down the line, we can’t spend too much. Now is the time we should be spending. Now is the time to go big.”
“So I think bigger,” Biden said. “And the vast majority of serious people say bigger is better now, not spending less.”
Even if that spending has nothing to do with COVID relief, like the over $100 million that could potentially be doled out to an over-budget public works project in Silicon Valley.