Managing Editor’s Note: Happy Holidays from the Diary team. Below, you’ll find a brief but timely note from Bill…
Christmas 2020
WEST RIVER, MARYLAND – Everyone is having a good laugh. The “COVID-19 relief” bill is a joke. No member of Congress actually read it. And if they had, they’d find these rib busters. Business Insider:
A provision for $2.4 billion to be given to the Space Force.
A measure stating that China must have no role in choosing the next Dalai Lama and that decisions on the “reincarnation of the Dalai Lama should be made solely by faith leaders.” (Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, is 85.)
$35 million in funding for sexual-abstinence programs that “exclusively implement education in sexual risk avoidance (defined as voluntarily refraining from non marital sexual activity.)”
Provisions for a tax break for owners of racehorses.
Permission granted for the creation of a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum and a National Museum of the American Latino.
A provision of $4 billion to the US Navy for weapons procurement.
A provision of $500 million to Israel and Jordan.
A provision declaring that illegal streaming is now a felony.
But wait. The biggest yuck came this morning, when Donald Trump said the bill was a “disgrace”… and then proposed to make it even more disgraceful. USA Today:
“It’s called the COVID relief bill, but it has almost nothing to do with COVID,” he said in a video posted just moments after he issued a raft of pardons for several allies. “I’m asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple.”
If the feds were to take Trump’s suggestion, it would mean the typical family of four could get some $8,600 (potentially more) in free money in 2020… counting the money they got in the first go-round of giveaways.
Hallelujah! No need to wait for the “socialists” to redistribute the wealth. Donald Trump and 47 republican senators are already doing it.
Regards,
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Bill
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