A Bowdlerized Version of the State of the Nation Is Offered by Biden
https://www.nysun.com/national/a-bowdlerized-version-of-the-state-of-the-nation/91494/
The best aspect of President Bidens speech to the nation from the House was his competent and persuasive delivery. He once again beat back the claims that he is a senescent, robotic dummy of severely diminished cognitive abilities. It was just reading a Teleprompter, but everyone remembers what an almost insurmountable challenge even that was at times in his candidacy, while the national political press conducted his campaign for him.
He spoke to a sparse, well-distanced corporals guard of well-masked and double-vaccinated legislators signaling their doubts about vaccines and determination to continue the Covid lockdowns that helped get Mr. Biden to the White House but they all seemed absurd.
He did not mention his predecessor and his entire address of over an hour was based on the only argument the Democrats have put forward on their own behalf in the last five years: Trump hate.
So much for the “safety net” to prevent poverty.
This is now about mainlining benefits to middle-class families so they become addicted to government - and to the Democratic Party that has become the promoting agent of government.
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All of this
adds up to healthy guaranteed annual income largely untied to the social contract that requires work, which is the real path to independence and self-respect.
The new taxes are destructive, but their impact will take time to be felt as the post-pandemic economy soars. The GOP shouldn’t ignore the taxes and spending.
But a more potent political target may be