Thune: Democrats Continue to Filibuster Targeted and Fiscally Responsible COVID Relief Funding
“I hope whatever perceived political gains Democrats are getting from their refusal to negotiate are worth denying help to the American people.”
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today expressed his frustration with Democrats’ continued blockade of a targeted and fiscally responsible COVID relief bill that would put money into the hands of small businesses and schools and
provide immediate additional funding for COVID testing and treatment. Democrats filibustered a similar bill in September that also received support from a majority of the Senate and would have prioritized federal assistance to help hard-hit small businesses, safely get students back to school, and support frontline workers who are fighting the coronavirus. Shortly before today’s vote, Thune spoke on the Senate floor, and his remarks (as prepared for delivery) are below.
The dems will bever pass a bill before the election as it might help Trump
I say it’s high time to split the country. We let California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, and all the North East states create their Communist Utopia. After we get rid of these traitors we pass laws requiring voter ID and Life Imprisonment for Voter Fraud. We also work with this new country to “swap” citizens out. We will take all the true Americans trapped in these rat infested states for the rats in our country. I think cleaning out all of Chicago would be a good start so the rest of the state of Illinois can be free. I would also take it a step further to make it Illegal have any Govt Funded Social Programs. Yes we dump food stamps, Housing Subzidies, Corporate Subsidies, Social Security, Medicade, etc. These programs, why well intentioned, are just another way for our Govt to waste our tax dollars. I know this sounds pretty radical but, we have let all this stuff creep in and now our Govt is so large and the Swamp is so deep its hard to drain.
You do realize that those states you just mentioned vastly generate more wealth and pay more money in taxes to support federal programs such as medicaid, medicare, and social security right?
Without those states, south dakotans would be in a worse financial spot than it’s currently in because it’s a debtors state, it can’t afford a majority of the programs offered to people who live there. It relies on the Federal government for a major portion of funding.
This does not matter, we need to spend wisely. We spend more money on crap we don’t need in this country. We should expect our Govt to spend money and balance budgets just like every household in American does, at least the responsible ones do. Its really very simple but, too many handouts, too many subsidies. The fact that 46% of the country pay taxes and the rest don’t should be your first clue something is very wrong. These states generate more money in taxes because they have more people, simple math. South Dakota is one of the least populated states and if we had to live inside our means we would TRULY spend money on things that matter.
Take Welfare for example, its one of the worst programs ever. It has not reduced poverty and all its done is create 3 generations of folks who are relying on a check from others instead of working hard for a living. You couple this along with the fact that our Politicians have outsourced all our manufacturing jobs to China, Mexico, and South East Asia further killing our middle class.
We have a lot of problems to solve and we just have too many Liberal Lunatics who want more reliance on the Federal Government yet fail to realize the Govt has no interest in solving these issues so why give them more. The Post Office is broken, the VA is broken, etc yet in order to do the things these loons want like Socialized Medicine you have to let the Govt control it, this is insanity.
This is a big discussion but, in order to truly address these real issues we need a divorce ad we cannot convice Lunatic Socialists on how to Solve the problem, they just need to go. Its like a marraige thats not working, lets just agree to disagree and go our separte ways. Conversatives wil always find a way forward, Liberals can’t because the are always looking for someone else to pay for their ideas
Who will foot the bill for the socialism-lite style bailouts of farmers that are necessary in part due to the current administration’s disastrous and short-sighted trade “policy?”