Consider this: A billion dollars is a thousand millions. President Joe Biden wants Congress to approve sending Ukraine $60 billion more in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fight Russia. That’s 60,000 millions. And this is on top of the $125 billion we already sent them.
The much-needed reconstruction of the Hospital Road Bridge in East Patchogue cost $23 million. For the $60 billion they want to send to Ukraine, you could fund 2,608 Hospital Road jobs. This is every bridge in Suffolk County, plus some.
Making the issue more troublesome is the money sent to Ukraine is borrowed by the U.S. government, meaning our children and grandchildren, if not our great-grandchildren, will have to pay it back. Currently, the National Debt—the amount of money borrowed against our credit by our representatives in Washington—is $34,653,832,000,000. That’s $34 trillion, or 34,653 billions. To break it down even further, simply move the decimal point and you’ll get more than 34.6 million millions.
The budget deal negotiated by former House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy before he was ousted by his angry colleagues gave President Biden the authority to borrow even more money. And the president is taking full advantage by putting the taxpayers, who currently owe more than $267,000 each for the National Debt, $1 trillion more in the hole every 100 days.
If it’s not straight-out taxes that are milking the public, then it’s inflation, also known as the government’s hidden tax. If Biden can’t borrow the money—which is becoming increasingly difficult because the government’s credit rating is at junk bond status—he has the Federal Reserve print it. Pumping more dollars into the system causes inflation, and under Bidenomics, taxpayers are seeing record prices for everything they buy.
Rather than reducing government spending, fighting inflation, giving the taxpayers a break, stopping the crime wave, or halting the millions of aliens flooding across the open southern border, the leaders of both the House and the Senate say their top priority as Congress goes back in session this week is approving $60 billion more for Ukraine.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and just a handful of her colleagues in the House are calling for an audit of the money sent to Ukraine before another dollar is spent. She has become one of the most vilified people in Washington for saying the following:
“I demanded an audit, and I was supposed to have one, but they never really accounted for the money. Now, this should be no surprise from the federal government. Remember, the Pentagon fails its audit every single year by billions and billions of dollars. So is anyone surprised that they miscounted the money that they sent to Ukraine? No, people are not surprised at all.”
“Where the American people are is they don't want any more of their dollars being sent to Ukraine because Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries on earth. But here's the Biden administration, which is probably the most corrupt administration on earth, now saying that they messed up counting how much money they sent to Ukraine. We are demanding an end to this war and a peace resolution for Ukraine.”
Greene goes on: “Our government has ripped our border wide open, and we've been invaded for years. And our people are paying a horrific price. We're in debt right now of nearly $35 trillion, and that debt is growing by $40 billion every night while we sleep. And they're projecting that it's going to be $55 trillion in 10 years. We're on a path to destruction, and it's by our own government. That's where we stand right now.”