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When Donald Trump left office, we had restored operational control of our southern border. The wall was nearing completion. Court ordered deportations were finally being enforced. The Migrant Protection Protocols negotiated with Mexico had reduced the number of fraudulent asylum claims to a trickle. All that Biden needed to do was to continue these policies. Instead, he reversed them on his first day in office. He ordered the border wall to be abandoned, leaving construction gaps that make it useless. He ordered ICE to cease enforcing the law. He ended Trump‘s remain-in-Mexico policy. And he sent a clear and unmistakable message heard around the world: America is now a nation without borders.

As the tensions of civil war reached a boiling point, President Lincoln vainly reached out to Democrats with these words: “We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.” The contrast with Mr. Biden’s September 1st speech in Philadelphia is jarring.  In it and many remarks since, Mr. Biden clearly addresses the 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump as enemies who – quote – “threaten the very foundation of our Republic.”  He condemned us as “extremists” who “do not respect the constitution” who “do not believe in the rule of law,” and who “refuse to accept the results of a free election.”  In other forums, he has called us “semi-fascists.” Mr. President, we revere our Constitution and the structure of individual liberty it was designed to protect.  We do not understand how a government established under that Constitution could use the FBI to pressure social media platforms to censor and suppress free speech, or to intimidate parents concerned about their school boards with threat tags, or to instruct its field offices to regard anyone who displays our founding American flags as a political extremist.

The Democrats printed and spent trillions of dollars we didn’t have and unleashed the worst inflation in forty years.  They waged war on American energy and plunged us into recession.     Now they are doubling down on these foolish policies.  It seems the more that some people invest in their mistakes, the less willing they are to admit them. 

This bill does nothing to reform the laws that have made active forest management impossible, and instead consigns us to fight a losing battle that will cost us our forests for generations to come.

Many years ago, the last silicon chip manufacturer closed its operations in Silicon Valley because of the high tax, energy and regulatory costs of doing business in the United States.  Now we’ve suddenly decided we want them back.  Instead of addressing the problem by reducing the obstacles to domestic manufacturing, Congress will shell out $280 billion (about $2,240 per family) to bail out impoverished big tech moguls by substituting your dollars for theirs.  There’s a prevailing wage requirement to reward the unions, and just so the green left isn’t left out, there’s plenty of your money left over to finance green energy scams as well.  Starving big tech executives thank you for your family’s generous contribution to their welfare.  Good luck affording your next laptop.