My state relies far too much on Federal handouts, but I have long advocated for a divorce from that arrangement. A Sugar Daddy can be demanding when you are on the Federal dole because it can claim to represent (or look out for) the interests of those whose money it is giving away.
DOGE has revealed that there is very little interest outside of self or politics. Democrats abdicate authority or responsibility when their party controls the cash. If anyone objects, they claim the strings have tied their hands, but not tight enough to prevent them from applauding.
When they are not in control, we are suddenly a Constitutional Republic again, and states have rights—the right to the money, with no strings attached.
Most of the money is fluff and waste laundered for two purposes – to force partisan policy on reluctant recipients or reward those who already toe that line.
Trump and DOGE took their electoral mandate seriously and are derailing the gravy train, or attempting to, and the bluer the state, the more shrill the whine. Democrat-run anything requires an endlessly increasing supply of other people’s money. While they are not shy about mugging the locals to pay for bloated government and policies that do the opposite of what they claim, there is a limit. Taxpayers revolt when forced to fund things in excess of their means, so Blue states forced to replace lost handouts find themselves in a precarious situation.
In response to this conundrum, Vermont Democrats recently put on a false morality play. Republicans are cutting all our climate funding. They are putting the planet (and presumably, you) in danger. We must spend other people’s money to protect the world for the children they don’t want you to have.
You can read the pearl-clutching, chest-pounding Earth Day rhetoric here, but the long and short of it is this. If the federal government doesn’t backstop our poor planning and irresponsible spending, we will be forced to pay for it ourselves. As in, Vermonters will have to pay.
Vermonters are already some of the most heavily taxed citizens in the US. If Democrats are forced to make them pay for wind and solar infrastructure, that will force them to pay more for the electricity it produces – how will they fund all the other environmental dumpster projects waiting in the queue?
It is not just Vermont. Anywhere Democrats roam, there is a hissing sound as Trump shivs the tires on their hopey-changey buses. That’s a problem. Their moral-superiority messaging machine only works when someone else pays for it. Proclamations to which they are not entitled because they don’t cost them anything. Every claim to righteousness, virtue, or decency is at the expense of someone else.
A recent example is millionaire Dems like Sandy Cortez and Bernie Sanders flying in private jets to tell paid protesters about how they will fight the oligarchy. They are the oligarchy. Career politicians made wealthy through a system rigged against the rest of us. The one that Donald Trump and DOGE are attempting to dismantle. The system by which obscene sums, much of it fiat money, laundered to fake NGOs to reward proper progressive thinking, no small amount of which ends up in the campaign coffers or the private bank accounts of Cotrtez, Sanders, and the ruling class establishment.
Besides, if Vermont politicians truly cared about the planet, they would count the dirty emissions from their wood-burning plants, but they don’t. They’d replace them with natural gas, which is significantly cleaner, but they don’t. They would embrace nuclear, which is cleaner than natural gas, but they don’t. They ignore inconveneint emissions and screw ratepayers and businesses, with the promise of an expensive and uncertain future which is why they need to vote themselves a raise.
And they then blame the opposing party for not funding their systemic fraud.
