COVID relief boondoggle

Biden's COVID-19 relief legislation is deftly disguised and marketed as a much-needed rescue. Yet, only 9% is directly related to COVID issues. The supposed benefits he and his people are touting are but a mirage masquerading in front of the wool pulled down over our eyes.

Over $1 trillion that is mortgaging everyone's future because it is all borrowed is not even remotely related to the pandemic - $86 billion for union pension bailouts, $350 billion to state governments largely awash in cash, already; $129 billion to schools, even though previous allocations have yet to be spent and $112 million for a Silicon Valley mass transit project in the speaker's back yard. These are just to name a few. Remember, the government spigot is your money, not theirs, but ours.

It's a boondoggle payback to special interests. If it were critical to our well-being, the monies would be allocated and spent in a targeted fashion as in a warlike footing. That will not happen, as much of those billions won't be spent until the pandemic is beyond us. It's like a drunken sailor at the helm who is on a spending binge to curry favor of his legislative and administrative people drunk on autocratic power.

At this point, Lord Acton's quote is closer to the truth. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you [add] the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority." Or closer to home, consider what Mark Twain said, "It's easier to fool the people than to convince them they've been fooled."

That's who Biden is.

Bill Anderson

Schaumburg