New York isn’t the only liberal-run city to cut essential services to citizens while pouring massive amounts of their money upon illegal aliens, or to provide the unlawful invaders with prepaid debit cards. Recently we learned that Denver is diverting $90 million to be bestowed upon “newcomers.” Here’s how Democrats plan to pay for it:

Denver intends to defund its police force and fire department in order to better support those illegally entering the U.S. through a program that provides a monthly debit card based on family size, free housing, “access to language instruction, career pathway explorations, industry-recognized credential training, and work-based learning opportunities.” …

Democrat [Mayor Mike] Johnston praised the revised proposal on Wednesday, arguing that it was the best way to address budget deficits and give services to those who are [in the country illegally].

When cuts to the police and fire departments result in more crime and houses burning down, Democrats will propose the obvious solution: higher taxes.

Denver already has a big problem:

Nearly 40,000 migrants have arrived in Denver over the past year, making a city with a population of just over 710,000 the top destination per capita for newly arrived migrants crossing the U.S. southern border and traveling north in buses from Texas.

The lavish incentives ought to draw still more, even as rising taxes and crime drive out Americans. They are deliberately reducing Denver to a slum so as to guarantee perpetual Democrat rule.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Under leftist Mayor Eric Adams, New York City has showered $billions upon $billions on illegal aliens, even providing them with prepaid credit cards, while driving out the tax base with Marxist policies, forcing cuts in essential services like police. Now is the time for him to give his underlings a $2.1 billion raise:

The salary increases, which Adams approved in February without putting out a press release, will retroactively boost salaries by 16.2% for managers and other non-union employees when compounded annually over a five-year period dating back to 2021. …

Under Adams’ order, managers and non-union staffers making $100,000 will see their pay increase to $112,550 next month and $116,208 the following year.

Most Americans who do actual productive work make a lot less. Systematically destroying a formerly great city pays well:

Anyone earning $200,000 before the agreement – first reported by Politico – would have their salary surge to $225,101 in May and $232,417 next year.

The greed and arrogance of our moonbat rulers are so prodigious, you almost have to stand in awe.

Where will the money to pay for this come from? Your savings, after NYC’s inevitable federal bailout is financed through inflation.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

It isn’t only at the federal level that liberals have been spending us into oblivion. Consider cities like Denver and San Antonio.

Regarding Denver:

As for San Antonio:

San Antonio City Council included $500,000 for a “Reproductive Justice Fund” in its 2024 budget. Councilmembers said they intended to provide grants to organizations that pay for out-of-state abortions and even assist with illegal chemical abortions in Texas.

Procuring out-of-state abortions…

…is a criminal act when any part of the procurement process occurs within Texas.

But if rule of law were binding on Democrats, Biden would not be defying a Supreme Court ruling to make us pay $billions more to cancel student loan debt.

These looters must be pried from power at every level of government, lest they spend our last penny on their pernicious agenda.

On tips from Wiggins and ABC of the ANC.

Leave it to a millionaire Marxist to determine the true cause of inflation. It is not Joe Biden flagrantly wasting trillions of dollars as arrogantly as possible while waging war on the energy sector (and thereby the transportation of goods) that drives up prices. Greedy grocery stores are charging too much. Whoopi Goldberg has it figured out — and we would all agree if we “knew civics”:

From there the solution to rising prices is simple. Confiscate stores from their owners and put Joe Biden in charge of them. Then all the stuff in the stores will be free, like student loans.

Maybe her cohost Sunny Hostin, who believes the imaginary climate crisis causes earthquakes and solar eclipses, should be the one to tell Whoopi that she is as stupid as she is repulsive and ought to just shut up.

On a tip from Varla.

The federal debt is still a little shy of $35 trillion. It is taking our moonbat rulers longer than they probably planned to spend the nation into economic collapse. So they waste our money ever more absurdly:

Researchers at the University of Houston have received $958,283 in grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine if ethnic microaggressions directed toward “Latinx” populations are leading to elevated rates of alcoholism, smoking and obesity, grant records show.

A “microaggression” is a slight that exists only in the imagination of the belligerently hypersensitive. For example, asking people where they are from is listed as a microaggression. To believe microaggressions are real in any meaningful sense requires a zealous commitment to moonbattery.

Calling people “Latinx” is more insulting than the innocuous comments leftists characterize as microaggressions. Maybe the researchers used it on purpose to see if it would cause Mexicans to be fat.

One of the goals of the research was to determine whether microaggressions instill “greater fears of exercise” in those of Hispanic heritage. Academics must not value their own time, to let DC bureauweenies buy it and waste it so uselessly.

This isn’t the NIH’s only foray into microaggression research. The agency paid out over $2.8 million between 2021 and 2024 to study the effect of microaggressions on black queer women living with HIV, grant records show.

Next will come a massive government grant to ascertain how many microaggressions can be written on the head of a pin.

On a tip from Franco.

For a special guest to showcase at the SOTU Thursday, squad member Ayanna Pressley picked someone who has actually benefitted from Democrat policies — i.e., a comfortable deadbeat:

A teacher paid $135,901 last year who had student debt forgiven was the “honored” guest of U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley at the State of the Union address.

That teacher, who also owns a home in Dedham with her husband assessed in Zillow online records at about $1 million, was given $117,000 in student debt relief, Pressley says in a press release.

Adding to her specialness, Priscilla Higuera Valentine is a member of the cancerous teachers unions that have destroyed American education and the daughter of a Third World immigrant.

She teaches elementary school — easy work with lots of time off. Median income in her town is about half her take at $61,699.

Debt can’t really be canceled; it can only be transferred. Someone has to pay it. As with Priscilla’s bloated salary, we pay through taxes and inflation.

On a tip from Jack D.

An update on the sort of things Big Government spends your money on:

The Republican-controlled House is set to approve a spending bill that as of Tuesday would earmark one million dollars in taxpayer money toward a Philadelphia-based LGBTQ group that hosts a monthly bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism (BDSM) “fetish” party.

Sen. Bob Casey, Sen. John Fetterman, and Rep. Brendan Boyle, all D-PA, had advocated for the earmark toward the William Way LGBT Community Center (popularly known as “WayGay”). Casey and Boyle are self-professed Catholics.

Other aggressive advocates of sin who proclaim themselves to be Catholic include Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. The Church will have to start excommunicating these creeps if the term “Catholic” is to have any meaning.

Sometimes pushback works:

[F]ollowing much pushback from critics, both Casey and Fetterman requested that the Senate Committee on Appropriations remove the earmark from the spending package late Tuesday.

WayGay infamously features drag shows featuring children as young as 11. Its COO has been in the news lately:

On a tip from Franco.

If you thought no one could be more arrogant that our rulers in the District of Corruption, consider their beneficiary Volodymyr Zelensky, who regards a 2-week recess by Congress as unacceptable. He scolded our legislators during a conference alongside Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris:

“Please, everyone, remember that dictators do not go on vacation,” he said during a speech at the conference.

Joe Biden — known for his business dealings in Ukraine — is less polite:

“Two weeks, they’re walking away,” Biden said at the White House. “Two weeks. What are they thinking? My God, this is bizarre, and it’s just reinforcing all of the concern and almost – I won’t say panic – but real concern about the United States being a reliable ally. This is outrageous.”

Congress needs to keep its nose to the grindstone. Our money is not going to find its way via inflation from our bank accounts to a corrupt Eastern European backwater all by itself.

The Senate has voted to hand Ukraine another $60 BILLION of our money. Zelensky and Biden are enraged that the House hasn’t passed the bill quickly enough.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

According to government-affiliated public broadcasting, debt is good, because it is savings. This is fortunate, because bribing the Third World to pour across the undefended border to displace us out of existence is going to cost more than even the Uniparty could raise by taxation:

The Heritage Foundation has details on…

…the relative size of the expansion of the welfare state under the TRAFWA, the bill’s weakening of work requirements, its contribution to excessive benefits, its subsidization of illegal immigrants, its embrace of liberal priorities, and the harm it would cause to marriage and families.

The millions upon millions of illegal aliens flooding the country in the largest invasion in human history already consume more welfare benefits than American citizens. Just wait until we get bipartisan immigration reform.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

The establishment media is in a state of freefall due to its willingness to sacrifice credibility to advance the leftist agenda. But if you think private sector propaganda platforms like ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN are a joke, consider the media outlets that are financed by Big Government. Examples include the BBC, PBS, and at the last limits of lunacy, NPR — which informs us that the mountain of debt compiled by moonbats as they waste our money on crap like public broadcasting actually constitutes savings.

From National Public Radio:

NPR’s Leila Fadel talks with Stony Brook University professor of economics Stephanie Kelton about some potential benefits of the nation’s $34 trillion of debt.

The word “benefits” is not a typo.

Fadel introduces her guest as…

“…a senior economic adviser for Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns. She’s also a proponent of modern monetary theory, or MMT, which argues that since the U.S. prints its own currency, it can’t run out of money like a household or a business can.”

An economic advisor to a communist believes we can produce infinite wealth by printing infinite money. Refer to Zimbabwe to see how this turns out in real life.

The nutty professor explains her theory that debt is savings:

“So over the arc of U.S. history, the U.S. government typically spends on an annual basis more dollars into the economy than it taxes away from us. And so it’s adding dollars, and over time, we keep track of how many dollars have been added. And what that 34 trillion is telling you is that over the long sweep of history, the U.S. government has put that many dollars into our hands without taxing them away. So what it is is it’s our after-tax savings that’s being reported.”

Then the men in white coats arrived with their butterfly nets and escorted her away.

Currency issued by the government is not wealth; it only represents wealth. NPR’s expert is unwilling or unable to grasp this:

“[T]he idea that taxes pay for what the government spends is pure fantasy,” she writes in The Deficit Myth. “[I]t is the currency issuer — the federal government itself — not the taxpayer, that finances all government expenditures.”

Meanwhile, as even some liberals understand,

MMT is a recipe for hyperinflation, as Harvard economist and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has noted, along with countless other economists. …

Printing mass amounts of money cannot solve the problem of scarcity.

An economist who cannot comprehend scarcity is like a mathematician who cannot count.

“The carpenter can’t run out of inches,” she tweeted in 2019. “The stadium can’t run out of points. The airline can’t run out of [frequent flier] miles. And the USA can’t run out of dollars.”

There is a reason Kelton has crazy eyes. She is crazy.

There is also a reason NPR provided a platform to this kook:

Kelton was all but certain to say the $34 trillion debt was no problem. Don Boudreaux, Peter St. Onge, David Henderson, Bob Murphy, Antony Davies, or any number of other free-market economists would have given a very different answer, one that no doubt would have been far more grounded in economic reality. But as a media entity receiving tax dollars, NPR has little incentive to promote a free-market economist or free-market views. Indeed, they have an incentive to do precisely the opposite.

The skyrocketing national debt is not the only looming crisis that we will be lucky to survive. There are also the undefended border, the likelihood of Iran acquiring intercontinental nuclear missiles, and a ruling class that may actually believe its own self-serving lies, no matter how preposterous.

On a tip from Barry A.

Wasting money is easy. But wasting trillions of dollars while maximizing offensiveness to the regular Americans who have to pick up the tab through taxation and inflation requires creativity. Only gifted bureauweenies could have thought to blow over $1 million of our money on a video game for sexually deranged children:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved $1,075,660 in grant funding since 2016 to develop and test the effectiveness of a Japanese role-playing game-inspired web app in reducing binge drinking among sexual and gender minority youth, according to a federal grant database.

By “youth,” they mean kids:

The grant defines sexual and gender minority youth as people under 18 who identify as transgender, nonbinary, gay, bisexual or lesbian, among other identities.

Kids are taught that being homosexual makes them special:

Gay youths playing the game take on the role of a “superhuman individual” who faces discrimination at school “because of their uniqueness,” according to NIH-funded researchers.

In no healthy society would children be coached to define themselves according to deviant sexual practices.

Likewise, in no healthy society would binge drinking among children be an issue. Preventing it would best be accomplished not by video games that encourage sexual perversion, but by engaged parents. The federal government could do its part by letting up on the War on Family, which it has waged by incentivizing having children out of wedlock through the Welfare State and by attacking the institution of marriage in the name of the LGBT agenda.

Where does our $1 million actually go? Into the voracious maw of “higher” education, which is well paid for its critical role in devising and instilling ruling class ideology. Specifically, the University of Pittsburgh gets the booty.

On a tip from Franco.

With Democrats in control, a major purpose of the federal behemoth is to spend our money promoting the depraved and destructive LGBT agenda both at home and abroad.

At home, they spend to prevent “transgender boys” from getting pregnant:

The Biden administration has plowed almost $700,000 to support the creation of a national pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys, according to federal grant records. …

The program will utilize a text-messaging program designed for “cisgender sexual minority girls” aged between 14-18 to “address social and structural influences of sexual behavior” in trans males, the grant’s description says.

Even liberals know that no boy ever has or ever will become pregnant. Translating out of the Liberalese, the money is to prevent girls who pretend to be boys while having sex with real boys from conceiving children. Such are the priorities of our rulers as the country comes apart.

The point of specifically targeting “transgender boys” is to advance the liberal dogma that boys can become pregnant, thereby weakening our grip on reality.

The $700,000 is a drop in the bucket:

As we reported in November last year, the Biden Administration has already spent $4.1 billion in taxpayers’ money on LGBT initiatives nationally and worldwide during the last three fiscal years.

Abroad, the redistribution of our wealth to other countries comes with rainbow-colored strings attached:

The USDA’s Sub-Working Group for the Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World identified three separate farm agencies that work internationally, according to a heavily redacted Oct. 18 memo obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through the Freedom of Information Act.

One of these agencies is the Foreign Agricultural Service.

The Foreign Agricultural Service, or FAS, issues agriculture grants abroad. The memo says it will incorporate “sexual orientation nondiscrimination protections into FAS terms and conditions for grants and agreements and notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) to international beneficiaries.”

“Nondiscrimination” in this context is Liberalese for promotion of the LGBT agenda. This agenda has resulted in groomed children undergoing horrific sex-change procedures here in the USA.

Aside from promoting sin, degeneracy, and insanity in accordance with their social engineering objectives, Democrats’ grotesquely excessive spending may be an end in itself. The national debt has skyrocketed past $34 trillion under Biden. As economist Herbert Stein famously observed, if something cannot go on forever, it will stop. When the house of cards collapses is when Democrats will have leverage to impose the Great Reset on a population reduced to starvation.

On tips from seaoh and ABC of the ANC.

To the long list of inducements Democrats offer welfare colonists to invade the USA and displace its citizens we can add free sex change surgery.

California has massively expanded the free healthcare it provides illegal aliens, despite a $68 billion deficit. Among the beneficiaries of this coercive largesse will be the sexually insane:

The Golden State is expanding its massive health care system this year, which means more taxpayer dollars will fund sex change surgeries for state residents, regardless of their citizenship status. …

California’s Medi-Cal covers costs for hormone therapy and procedures “that bring primary and secondary gender characteristics into conformity with the individual’s identified gender, including ancillary services, such as hair removal, incident to those services.”

If only all of these procedures were as harmless as hair removal.

Nearly 700,000 illegal immigrants between the ages of 26 and 49 qualify, as of Jan. 1, for these federal health care services, which will cost California taxpayers an estimated $3.1 billion. For those living in California illegally within this age range, it translates to approximately $4,058 per year in medical coverage subsidies funded by the state’s general fund.

The numbers will continue to rocket upward so long as Democrats are in position to keep the border open.

A recent report from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows a significant rise in the number of undocumented immigrants not held in detention. It went up from 3.7 million in 2021 to almost 4.8 million in 2022 and nearly 6.2 million in 2023. These are illegal migrants with final orders to leave or who are in the process of being removed but aren’t held in ICE custody.

This is only a small percentage of the actual number of illegal aliens. They have been given good reason to flood in from every corner of the Third World:

“In California, we believe everyone deserves access to quality, affordable health care coverage — regardless of income or immigration status,” Gov. Newsom’s office reportedly said in a statement.

When Democrats bark about healthcare, they largely mean abortion and sex change procedures. By “affordable,” they mean someone else pays for it — namely you.

You can see why Gavin Newsom is positioning himself to replace the conspicuously senile Joe Biden. As POTUS, he could just print the money and pay for this waste through inflation, rather than keep jacking up already exorbitant state taxes and waiting for an eventual federal bailout.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket, ABC of the ANC, and MrRightWingDave.