In the 1950’s and 1960’s, there was a Republican Senator from Illinois named Everett Dirksen.  Dirksen was the Senate Minority Leader.  Perhaps his most famous quote was about the Congressional budget process, which was a disgrace, even in those days.  Here it is.  “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”  Keep in mind that when Dirksen said that, the federal budget was under $100 billion, so a billion here, and a billion there was real money.  You have to understand that a trillion is one thousand billion.  Think of it this way, $1billion in $100 dollar bills produces a stack of bills 3,326 feet high.  $1trillion in $100 dollar bills produces a stack 631 miles high.  Now we’re talking about real money.  It wouldn’t be so bad if we were talking about money we actually have.  This is money that’s being borrowed, from friendly financiers, like the Chinese.  Federal  spending has exploded in recent years.  The $100 billion of 1965 became $200 billion by 1974, $500 billion by 1981, and reached nearly $1 trillion by the time Ronald Reagan left office in 1989.  So it took us 200 years to reach $1 trillion in federal spending.  There were people who complained about deficits in the Reagan days, Democrats no less.  But the difference between those days and these days is that, the Reagan tax cuts nearly doubled federal receipts, from $500 billion to $1 trillion from 1981 to 1989, so the deficits were minor.  Anyhow, it took 15 years to get to $2 trillion, and another 13 years to get to $3 trillion, under Trump.  Our national debt increased just as alarmingly.  It took 192 years to accumulate a $1 trillion national debt, and 5 years to double that.  We got to $10 trillion by Obama’s first year, he doubled it to $20 trillion, and for the first time, our debt exceeded our national GDP.  If these numbers alarm you, hold on to your hats.  Joe Biden inherited a debt of $27 trillion.  In 8 months, the debt has reached nearly $29 trillion.  2021 Federal spending was expected to be nearly $7 trillion, with a deficit over $3 trillion.  But wait.  Democrats aren’t done.  There’s the $1.2 trillion, so-called infrastructure bill, only a fraction of which goes to real building projects.  And then, there’s the $3.5 trillion bill for what Democrats are calling “human infrastructure.”  These lying bastards really have no scruples whatsoever.  The Democrats “cut” the first bill to $1.2 trillion to attract Republican support in the Senate.  Then, they took every budget busting, Woke, Anti-American, unconstitutional load of bullcrap they could think of, and stuffed it into the $3.5 trillion bill.  A classic bait and switch.  You see, Bolshevik Bernie Sanders favored a $6 trillion spending bill, but even some Democrats knew that was crazy, so they split it up – $1.2 trillion for infrastructure, with Republican support, and another $3.5 trillion for out and out theft, without any Republican support.  They hope to pass the $3.5 trillion bill by budget reconciliation, which would bypass the Senate filibuster, but there are several problems with this plan.  First, reconciliation is only for taxing and spending.  The $3.5 trillion bill is mostly about social engineering, climate change, free college tuition, federal funding of abortion, universal preschool, etc.  The Senate Parliamentarian has to rule on the contents.  Secondly, Senate Democrats such as Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema say they won’t vote for a $3.5 trillion package.  They need 50 Democrat votes in the Senate, plus Cackling Kamala, to get this ruinous bill through.  But there’s more.  Speaker of the House, modern day Madame Defarge, Nancy Pelosi, is holding Senate Democrats hostage.  She’s threatened not to move the bipartisan infrastructure bill, until the Senate passes the $3.5 trillion theft bill.  I actually hope she sticks to her guns on this, resulting in neither of these bills being passed.  Putting aside the fact that this spending would further balloon the debt, what’s in these bills is really bad for America.  The bills are chock full of Woke bullcrap, like funding for critical race theory, “free” college tuition, without any means testing, continued $300 per child monthly welfare payments, and money for clean energy programs, many of which were cut from the bipartisan infrastructure bill.  The bill will create a New Deal-esque Civilian Climate Corps, and has funding for climate justice programs.  Whenever Democrats use the word “justice,” you should think “Communist,” because that’s what it is.  The basis for Communism/Socialism is “social justice.”  What’s climate justice?  Never forget that, the day after the Berlin Wall fell, European Reds all became Greens.  The goal of European Communists was the destruction of capitalism.  The goal of the Green New Deal Woke numb sculls is the same.  Don’t doubt me.  This from a 2019 blog of the International Communist Party, “Climate Change: Capitalism is the Problem.”  In 2018, the U.N. produced a report that said “we cannot fight climate change with capitalism.”  Here’s the deal.  Extreme cold kills far more people than extreme heat, but we’re told, supposed global warming more negatively impacts poor nations, which have lower carbon emissions than the evil capitalist industrial nations.  The Greens say examples are Chad, which has droughts and unpredictable rainfall, and Bangladesh, which has cyclones, storm surges, and flooding.  And it’s all our fault?  Has it occurred to anyone that Chad was in the Sahara Desert long before climate change became an issue?  Has it occurred to anyone that Bangladesh is in a region which has had a typhoon season for all of recorded history?  But, the Greens say, communities of color are hardest hit because language barriers make it difficult for immigrants to get  information about incoming storms or weather disasters, or to communicate with first responders on evacuation orders.  I have a less expensive solution.  Learn English.  Problem solved.  But the climate crusaders are appalled that some “indigenous communities” (those are Indians folks), are being forced to relocate to higher ground.  Wait!  You mean that human beings actually had to adapt?  How climatically unjust!  Ever heard of the Ice Age?  If early humans hadn’t adapted to the changing climate, no one would be here now to complain about the heat.  The plans of the climate engineers always bring to mind all those time travel stories, where someone goes back in time, and changes something that affects the future.  Imagine a Green New Deal plan to stop the Laurentide Ice Sheet glaciers from melting 15,000 years ago.  That was real climate change.  Had they succeeded, New York would still be under 1,000 feet of ice.  As things turned out, maybe that wouldn’t have been so bad.  The point is that climate engineering is impossible, it’s stupid, and the idea that we should go broke to indulge the ravings of Woke imbeciles is the height of insanity.  Let’s hope both these ruinous spending bills fail.  We’re deep enough in debt already.