The Biden administration's $6.25 trillion "American Jobs Plan" promises...
By P.J. O'Rourke.....................
Oh, what doesn't it promise?
... reliable transportation, safe water, affordable housing, healthy schools, clean electricity, broadband for all, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
I may be slightly misquoting the last part. But not by much.
This article would be much shorter if I made a list of what the American Jobs Plan is not vowing to accomplish. In fact, I might be able to write the piece in three words...
Make pigs fly.
Such moments have come before. There was the moment when Lenin nationalized all business and industry in the U.S.S.R., the moment when Stalin collectivized Soviet agriculture, the moment Hitler decided to pay off the German national debt by conquering Europe, the moment Mao announced his "Great Leap Forward." Not to mention the moments of reimagining a new economy in Mussolini's Italy, Kim Il-sung's North Korea, Castro's Cuba, Pol Pot's Cambodia, etc.
But economic facts are economic facts no matter what any White House "Fact Sheet" proclaims. And we divorce ourselves from facts at our peril.
The idea that a government can "reimagine" a "new" economy is a foolish and stupid proposition. Try going to the person to whom you're married and telling him or her you're "reimagining a new spouse." What fun!
Speaking of which, there are the remaining 26.5 pages of hogwash about letting every governmental pig out of every programmatic sty to cause an immense pork stampede trampling the nation on its way to feed at the taxation trough.
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