The Deep State knew that virtually none of their causes could be funded directly through the constitutional funding process, “All bills for raising revenue must begin in the House of Representatives,” because their shadow government is no way constitutional (U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 7). Congress does indeed raise the money under some general category, and a portion of it does go to the cause intended by them but too often much of it is actually laundered elsewhere as for example, hidden to the public, bio labs in Ukraine. Thus they created the USAID process now well known to fund their nefarious purposes. Hence, when Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency reported, “Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people?” It shocked the nation.
A 2017 photograph inside a Wuhan China lab. The same thing was happening in the bio labs built by the DOD in Ukraine with like experiments to artificially induce evolution known as gain of function. The problem with this is that in order to preemptively create the vaccines and study the pathogens, scientists essentially have to first create a bio weapon in the lab making these pathogen infections to humans. Creating killer viruses to humans that could escape the lab, as happened with COVID-19, is a crime against humanity and should merit the death penalty.
By way of review we now know that the USAID takes the money and when possible gives it to well connected Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), they place it into a DAF (Donor-Advised Funds) to fund other NGOs. Reportedly, the Deep State can fund any cause they like, and do, without ANY further Congressional approval or real oversight.
One presumed member of the DOGE team, (pseudo named DataRepublican), explained it this way, “It’s important to understand that funding is fungible, meaning USAID dollars do not directly flow into these NGOs in a literal sense. Instead, the money moves through multiple layers, with various entities handling, and re-distributing it. For example, CEPPS [The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening] receives substantial USAID funds for global initiatives, but ultimately channels much of it to partisan NGOs, rather than focusing solely on individual grants. It’s more important to recognize the pattern of funding distribution influence. Donor Advised Funds (DAF) are a big part of the equation” (X22 Report-hereafter not cited, Ep. 3565b, Feb. 6, 2025, 30:10). Eventually it goes through enough layers, diffused and reduced sufficiently (laundered) enough to go into favored individuals shell accounts as payoffs without being easily detected.” Is this how and why so many in government with public servant salaries became millionaires? (See, “Who is Receiving ‘Kick Backs’ from Non Government Organizations,” LibertyUnderFire.org, Feb. 19, 2025).
We go to Clandestine, an investigative reporter, for how this happened respecting taxpayers funding of COVID-19 as Elon Musk made known. In Deep State circles it was called PROJECT PREDICT. “Now that the world is keen to the USAID, it’s time to go over the big secret they are desperate to keep from the public—Project Predict. This is the USAID funded project that led to the creation of SARS-Covid-2 and the Covid pandemic. This is what Elon was alluding to.
“USAID PREDICT began in 2009, was carried out in 30 countries around the globe, and was supposed to be a means to preemptively stop pandemics from zoonotic diseases, jumping from animal to human. The concept was to artificially induce evolution, or enhance the function of naturally existing pathogens like bird flu, bat coronaviruses and study them, and have vaccines prepared should one of these viruses mutate in the wild and jump to humans. The problem with this system is that in order to preemptively create the vaccines and study the pathogens, scientists essentially have to create a bio weapon in the lab when making these pathogen infections to humans; also known as gain of function or direct evolution. The projects core replicating partners are USAID, EcoHealth Alliance, UC Davis, MetaBiota, Hunter Biden, Wild Life Consortium Society, [and the] Smithsonian Institute.
Map shows 15 bio labs locations in Ukraine most, if not all, built by the U.S. Department of Defense. Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reported, “Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people?” “One of the partner organizations that receive[d] funding to carry out this project, MetaBiota, a bio lab company, was funded by Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca. The owner, CEO, and head virologist behind MetaBiota, is Nathan Wolfe, who, in addition to the Biden’s, is financially tied to the Clinton’s and Epstein accomplants, Ghislaine Maxwell.”
“One of the partner organizations that receive[d] funding to carry out this project, MetaBiota, a bio lab company, was funded by Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca. The owner, CEO, and head virologist behind MetaBiota, is Nathan Wolfe, who, in addition to the Biden’s is financially tied to the Clinton’s and Epstein accomplants, Ghislaine Maxwell via project TerraMar. Wolfe calls himself Virus Hunter, and wrote the book The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age, 2011, which he predicted that [the] future would be fraught with pandemics, and the only way to prevent it is to give him millions of dollars to look for Zoonotic diseases to produce vaccines….
“But everything changed in 2014. After the Obama CIA/State Dept. took over Ukraine via color revolution, MetaBiota was awarded their USAID/DOD contracts to begin searching for bat coronavirus and operating labs in Ukraine via Project PREDICT. All of this is open source information required by law and is available on USA Spending Government page.”
So Clandestine asks, “What does this all mean? It means that a Clinton, Epstein, and Biden-affiliated neurologist, was given tens of millions of US tax dollars via USAID, to look for, and genetically enhance bat coronaviruses in Ukraine, right before a man-made bat coronavirus started a global pandemic and killed millions of people… And we have emails from Hunter’s laptop proving that Hunter was in extremely close contact with Nathan Wolfe and MetaBiota. None of this is conjecture, and is backed up by a paper trail.”
This is the big secret. “The ruling families of the DNC are financially involved in USAID (CIA) projects that were enhancing bat coronaviruses before the C-19 pandemic, and they went great lengths to cover this up. This is ultimately where the road ends. The Deep State created C-19 with US taxpayer dollars and they are guilty of crimes against humanity. That is why Fauci and NIH covered up that Covid was man-made. That is why the Dems, the main stream media, censored, smeared anyone who would talk about C-19 being man-made. That’s why the Biden regime sent hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. That is why Hunter and Fauci’s pardons begin in 2014. That is why the Dems are panicking that Trump is auditing the USAID because they are implicated in crimes against humanity, and Trump and Elon have the paper trail to prove it” (Ep.3563b, Feb.4, 2025, 35:00). These same people hid ivermectin, hydroxychoriquin, and natural immunity as cures. It’s now all exposed.
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The Deep State does not know how President Donald Trump is moving so quickly seemingly knowing precisely what to hit them with next. Within two weeks he was even auditing them—something never done before nor supposed possible. Those who have studied “secret combinations” of the past 100 years (Internationalists, Establishment, New World Order, Globalists, World Order and now Deep State) know exactly what he is doing and why.
DOGE finds Biden’s Ex-USAID Chief Samantha Powers’ net worth to have skyrocketed from $6.7million to $30 million in four years on a $180,000 annual salary. Elon Musk indicates that “DOGE will be investigating bureaucrats who have somehow amassed a large wealth with public servant salaries” now that “the scheme has been exposed.” Several members of Congress associated with USAID appear to have amassed great wealth as well. Deep State outlets characteristically deny the allegations.
He had over 10 years to watch the Deep State up close and personal. He saw how they treated him as an outsider before and after his election in 2016, then as president, he had access to all their secret (classified) documents his 1st term, followed by a Coup election ending with Joe Biden as the White House resident. Biden himself ordered the raid on Trump’s home, Mar-A-Lago, and weaponized the FBI, DOJ, and judicial system to destroy him.
Trump first placed the illegal criminal element on the run by Border Czar Tom Homan, that likely otherwise would have been used by the Deep State for street chaos. Then he took away their security passes (Biden had taken Trump’s January 2021) so they could not know and use state intel information against him, then their funding through their “USAID” was exposed, and now their money laundering system through corrupt Non Government Organizations (NGO). Trump took the offense, the Deep State defense. It’s all coming to light, this column is on NGOs.
According to the State Department, approximately “1.5 million NGO’s are operating in the United States” All of these feeding directly or indirectly off taxpayer dollars (Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the United States, Jan. 20, 2025). It is important to recognize that not all, probably not more than a few thousand of these are dishonest or are knowingly attempting to destroy America. But NGO’s need to make certain they are not assisting the Deep State laundering system. We support Congressman Thomas Massie’s definition of an NGO. He wrote, “If cutting government funding shuts down an NGO, it is not, and never was a Non Governmental Organization” (Thomas Massie, X, Feb. 12, 2025).
This reminds us of a statement by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “We know that they are stealing. They know that they are stealing. They even know that we know they are stealing. But they are still stealing”(X22 Report -hereafter not cited-Ep. 3570b, Feb. 12, 2025, 33:31).
Elon Musk indicates that “DOGE will be investigating bureaucrats who have somehow amassed a large wealth with public servant salaries” now that “the scheme has been exposed.” Highly visible examples of these are “Nancy Pelosi annual salary $223,000, net worth: $202 million. Mitch McConnell annual salary $200,000, net worth: $95 million. Chuck Schumer annual salary: $210,000, net worth: $75 million. Elizabeth Warren annual salary $285, 000, net worth: $67 million. [She] flies on a private jet.” (@ Elon Musk @ DOGE, Ep. 3570b, Ibid., 37:05).
Anthony Fauci and Schumer are of special interest to the government department on efficiency. Fauci’s net worth surged during Covid and he became a multimillionaire. And Chuck Schumer sponsored the Inflation Reduction Act, which allotted the IRS “$80 Billion to hire 87,000 agents to AUDIT the American people,” yet hypocritically he objects to the audit of USAID which is likely the source of his surge in personal gain (Ep. 3570b, Feb. 12, 2025, 38:31).
Whether actually said by Truman or not most believe the above true. There is extreme panic in Washington DC. All of this “has spawned a 400% rise since Dec. 1, 2024 in Google searches for defense lawyers in the District of Columbia—five times higher then any other place in the country.” Googles biggest requested word search was “bleach bit” made famous by Hillary Clinton when she used it to wipe clean everything electronic in her home, presumable to conceal criminal activity. Me thinks others want to purchase it for the same purpose.
So these have a net worth far beyond reason from their salary base. President Trump says “he is ‘completely certain his administration has discovered widespread kickbacks in the federal government.’ Trump said ‘he examined a list of 200 expenditures and found only three that look reasonable. There is no chance that there’s not kickbacks or something going on. They are taking massive amounts of money and spending it on items’” (WATCH: Trump “Completely Certain” There Is MASSIVE KICKBACKS in Federal Spending, Yeshiva World News, Feb. 12, 2025).
And there are other less famous members of Congress of interest to the DOGE, as for example, Rep. Jasmine Crockett who has “a reported net worth of $9 million despite being paid $174,000 a year. Crockett owns a $2 million townhouse in Dallas, $1.5 million loft in Austin, Texas, $1.5 million lakefront cabin in Galveston, Texas. Crockett’s net worth grew substantially last year during the 2024 election where she became an overnight star for the DNC.” Crockett says it’s “a lie” her net is “between -$46,997 and $29,999.” (Lead Stories Fact Check, Dana Ford, 02/14/25).
DOGE News reports, “This is the Government Accountability Office Building (pictured). They are suppose to do what DOGE does. They currently employ 3,275 people that do nothing” in “a very big building. DOGE just has a few college kids.” Then Elon observes, “It’s almost like there’s a massive “uniparty” grift machine here in DC” and shared the following analogy, “You own a store. Your store gets robbed. Elon looks at the video footage of the robbery and tells you who did it. Now, you want to arrest Elon.” Democrat, past president, Harry S. Truman said it best. “You can’t get rich in Politics unless you’re a Crook” (Ep. 3572b, Feb. 14, 2025, 34:47).
There is extreme panic in Washington DC. All of this “has spawned a 400% rise since Dec. 1, 2024 in Google searches for defense lawyers in the District of Columbia—five times higher then any other place in the country” (Brooks Dailey, Ibid., 33:36). Google searches exploded in the following word searches: other than criminal defense lawyers, “RICO law, Swiss bank, IBAN, offshore bank, wire money, statute of limitations.” And the biggest one of all “bleach bit.” Why bleach bit? “Hillary Clinton used bleach bit inside her home to wipe everything electronic in her home. This way they couldn’t be tracked.” These people allegedly knowingly stole from the taxpayer some even participated in a successful Coup d’état against Donald Trump —TREASON. They know it, Trump knows it, and now a majority of the people know it.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 808.
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established by President John F, Kennedy by executive order November 3, 1961. The 63 year old organization has since become the cash cow of almost all international funding and most believe it has become the funder of Deep State power. Trump, also by executive order, froze its assets and closed its doors February 7 pending an audit. The USAID is within Trump’s executive power to oversee and manage. That audit has shown good reason to restructure or dissolve the organization—its loyalty to America is in question as it distributes America’s tax monies often to our enemies. The closure was so sudden the Deep State could not hide or destroy evidence—the institution was frozen in time to be reviewed. (We have restricted our citations to varied daily podcasts of one trusted non Deep State source, X22 Reports, since most of the findings on USAID are common knowledge, but our perspective may differ.) The Deep State is an enemy to freedom.
Trump has taken the offensive so hard and fast in his 1st 3 weeks to keep his promise to rid the nation of the Deep State. It has been the dominant influence in both major political parties, under different names, for over 100 years. Uncharacteristically for them they have not been able to regain an effective offense against him. They tried everything, even assassination, and he’s come back stronger than ever—like a roaring lion. He has taken away their security passes and ran a Javelin through USAID—their secret world wide funding. The people love him for what he does.
Elon Musk, a former life-long Democrat, was placed over a new Trump department called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a special short-termed government employee to conduct the never before audit in the intentional effort to eliminate waste and fraud. Musk will be auditing a number of other federal departments for the same purpose—even the Pentagon. He, like President Trump, is working for free. Trump said of him. “Musk can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval, and we’ll give him the approval where appropriate.” Some USAID officials were put on leave for refusing access to Musk and DOGE of USAID records. (X22 Report, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3562b, Feb. 3, 2025, 23:00).
The audit has shown good reason for this review as it documents a $70 Billion slush fund for far left causes throughout the world. Musk says “97% of political contributions from USAID employees went to Dems.” (Dailywire, Ep. 3563b, Feb. 4, 2025, 43:47). Here are some of those taxpayer funded causes thus far revealed from the audit of USAID:
Riots in 2020. USAID funded $27 million to Black Lives Matter through George Soros’ Tides Foundation, hence USAID funded the burning of our cities, businesses, and homes in 2020. This included $252million coming to Portland in 2019” (Ep. 3566b, Feb.7, 2025, 14:13, 15:51).
USAID funded revolutions in Ukraine and Brazil. Five billion dollars of USAID money allowed Victoria Nuland to fund the Obama Administration’s engineered Coup d’état in Ukraine, in 2014 making that nation the 1st Deep State country. Years later the billion dollar loan used by Vice President Biden to blackmail Ukraine president not to prosecute Hunter Biden was from USAID. This was Biden’s famous quid pro quo. (Ep. 3566b, Feb.7, 2025, 23:12). Nuland selected the new government a month before the old government was overthrown,” says RFK Jr. (Ep. 3562b, Feb. 3, 2025, 36:38). The Deep State is panicking over the destruction of USAID as it funded virtually all their operations worldwide. As for example,“If USAID did not exist, Bolsonaro would still be president of Brazil” (Ep. 3563b, Feb. 4, 2025, 26:14).
Covid-19 Pandemic. “USAID funded $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which then used U.S. taxpayer funds to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab—research that likely led to the creation of Covid-19” (Kanekoathegreat, Ep. 3562b, Feb. 3, 2025, 41:30). “Fauchi’s NIAID and USAID sent over $40m in U.S. taxpayer ‘support’ to a scientist in Wuhan who was working on ‘bat corona virus emergence’ research, who also became patient zero.’ And the completion date of the funding was in 2019” (Ep. 3562b, Feb. 3, 2025, 42:05). Elon Musk asks, “Did you know that USAID, using your tax dollars” funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people.” (Ep. 3563b, Feb. 4, 2025, 33:57). We previously published “Are U.S-Run Biological labs in Ukraine as they Say?,” (LUF, March 11, 2022).
Illegal Immigration. USAID funded George Soros “250 million” (Ep. 3565b, Feb. 6, 2025, 28:28). This is believed to have funded a large portion of the alien caravans invading the United States over recent years. Why would the government give multi billionaire Soros any money?
Yes, at the time they were. We have published many columns on Ukraine. American built bio labs in Ukraine on Russia’s border was the major reason Russia invaded. We previously published “Are U.S-Run Biological labs in Ukraine as they Say?,” (LUF, March 11, 2022). Again yes!! Documents found in the audit of USAID caused Elon Musk to ask Americans, “Did you know that USAID, using your tax dollars” funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people.”
Deep State media is largely funded by USAID. Trump, “Looks like millions of dollars have been stolen at USAID and other agencies, much of it going to the fake news media as a payoff for creating good stories about the Democrats. The left wing rag known as POLITICO seems to have received $8 million.” (Truth Social, Ep. 3565b, Feb. 6, 2025, 33:18).Those specifically identified were the Associated Press, NPR, and Politico. (Ep. 3565b,Feb. 6, 2025, 10:45). Also, USAID was supporting subscriptions to keep platforms in play. “The White House has directed the GSA to terminate every single media contract’ expensed by the Agency: Politico, BBC, E&E (politico sub) and Bloomberg” and to audit “EVERY NGO which relies on federal funding.”
Palestine. USAID gifted $310 million of tax payer money to start a Palestinian cement factory to provide cement to reinforce Hamas critical terror tunnels (Ep. 3566b, Feb.7, 2025, 52:16).
We recall Trump’s campaign mission statement of last May, “2024 is our final battle. With your help, we will demolish the Deep State. We will expel the war mongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will drain the swamp, and we will rescue our country from these tyrants and villains once and for all. The great liberation of America begins on November 5, 2024 – and the forgotten man and woman will be forgotten no longer.” (Ep.3362b, May 26, 2024, 46:43). And this is precisely what Trump is doing.
The Deep State can’t stop the exposure. Digital soldiers are all over it. The revelations are driving the radical left crazy and their is nothing they can do about it because this money belongs to the people (their tax money) but has been stolen for underground nefarious purposes that undermine freedom that were never approved by the people. This is so fraudulent it can’t be justified and is unexplainable. But the need for cleansing this system is critical to freedom.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 807.
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The words presidential immunity are not in the Constitution. What is in Article II is the required presidential oath to “faithfully execute the Office of President” and “to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” This with, “he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” make the president the custodian of the Constitution. Section 4, of the same Article identifies the major intolerable threats to the executive branch as “Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes,” but requires removal “from Office on Impeachment for and conviction of.” Only the Senate could do the conviction part and it voted to acquit President Trump. A person tried twice for the same crime, which Democrats are now doing to Trump, is forbidden by Amendment 5. Have these crimes become so prevalent that presidential immunity should not protect them? Yes!
Nothing is more powerful than confession!! We can not allow Biden’s potential use of presidential immunity to hide this or his classified documents crimes as a U.S. Senator or Vice president, nor his crimes of the last three years as president.
For 234 years, from the dawn of this Republic until now, no current or former president has ever been criminally prosecuted for official acts committed while serving. Trial (impeachment) and Senate conviction was seen as sufficient for any bad actors. This was unbroken tradition through 44 presidents—but none of these were accused of treason or bribery which now can be hidden behind presidential immunity.
Separation of powers is a major tenet of the Constitution with none of the three branches of government, executive, judicial or legislative having controlling power over the other two. Presidential immunity “flows directly from the exclusive, vesting clause of Article II. In 1803 Chief Justice John Marshall endorsed it, writing in Marbury v Madison that a president’s official acts “can never be examinable by the courts.” President Trump’s public statements and tweets about alleged fraud and irregularity in the federal election fall within the outer perimeter of presidential duty, to which, communicating with the public on matters of election concern is absolutely central” (X22 Reports, not cited hereafter, Ep. 3243b, Dec. 26, 2023, 39:47).
With respect to the attempt to influence the election, Trump says: “Remember, I was not campaigning – the 2020 election was LONG OVER. What I was doing, is bringing to light the fact that the election was without question Rigged and Stolen. As president and Commander-in- Chief, it was my duty to do so! If I did not do this, I would have been in violation of my oath of office, and take Care Clause, which requires the president to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ Therefore I am entitled to total immunity, because that is exactly what I was doing— Taking Care of our country, and guarding it from Rigged and Stolen Elections (EP. 3248B, January 2, 2024, 54:21). He was the president January 6, why would he revolt against himself?
Did Joe Biden admit that he cheated in the Presidential Election of 2020? Some think he did in the following five video taped statements filmed in various settings and times throughout the campaign. 1) “We have put together the most extensive and inclusive, voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” 2)“Folks we’ve got a lot of work to do. I don’t need you to get me elected. I need you once I am elected.” 3) “It’s no longer just who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible people to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote or whether your vote counts at all.” 4) “It’s about who gets to count the votes and whether they should count at all.” 5) “It’s about who gets to count the vote, count the vote, count the vote. It’s about election diversion not just whether or not people get to vote. Who counts the votes.” Deep State media outlets censored the above (Assembled by Kanekoathegreat, Ep. 3248B, January 2, 2024,. 57:00). Biden is absolutely right whether these are counted by locals behind walls or in China electronically, the 2020 election was determined by who counted the votes (Ibid. 57:00).
So if presidential immunity allows the judicial branch to go after the executive branch (Trump) can he in turn, once back in office, use it on Biden, even Barack Obama, and others who actually committed treason by overthrowing the government? These wanted his taxes believing that there had to be a hidden crime in them, but found nothing. But it legitimized the Congress Oversight Committee in getting Biden’s also. How do you think we found out about Biden’s 20-plus shell companies and his receiving millions from China, Russia and Ukraine in selling influence and state secrets? This, once the Supreme Court ruled that they could have Trump’s taxes.
After more than three years of time, there is no forensic audit or study document that proves Biden won the presidential election of 2020 but there are dozens that prove that Trump won.
Trump tells Biden if I don’t get immunity neither do you. “You don’t indict your political opponent because he opposes the corrupt election which you know was corrupt. Everybody knows it was corrupt. The American people knows it was corrupt. You do not indict your political opponent.” (Ep. 3254b, January 9, 2024, 53:34). In 3 years and 3 months there has been no evidence produced that Biden won 2020 other than the cheating of that one night and before. All new evidence since, dozens of other studies and reports, documents Trump won.
The Deep State is now going after presidential immunity to get Trump. Once removed and exonerated, Trump can go after previous presidents, more fully exposing the Deep State. Trump has done nothing illegal. Removing presidential immunity is the best way to reveal the crimes of the Deep State actors more fully. In addition to overthrowing the government, Biden could be prosecuted for many actual crimes, “including illegally receiving massive amounts of money from foreign countries, including China, Ukraine, and Russia, paying off Ukraine to fire an unfriendly prosecutor, allowing millions of people to illegally enter and destroy our country, surrendering in Afghanistan, with hundreds dead, many Americans left behind, and handing over millions of dollars worth of the best military equipment anywhere on earth, the dissemination of American wealth through the green, New Scam [Deal]…” (EP. 3248B, January 2, 2024, 48:08).
Maybe if presidential immunity were removed it would end the endless Deep State wars (the industrial military complex) that President Eisenhower warned about. Perhaps fearing future lawsuits because of secret combinations for wealth and power would serve as the deterrent.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 751
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On March 15, 2021, Joe Biden signed into law the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act . Not a single Republican in the House or Senate voted in favor of this legislation, as only 9% of which had anything to do with the Wuhan China Virus. This in light of the fact that a trillion dollars was not yet spent from the money previously allotted for COVID relief.
Prior to this the first spending package for the virus was last year March 27, 2020, when Congress added $2.5 trillion to the national debt with the The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) giving most adults $1,200. Most were jubilant to receive a stimulus check but to pay this single stimulus back today would cost each taxpayer $18,863 since about 50% of adults pay no income taxes (Compare U.S. Debt Clocks Nov. 2019 with April 2020). I would rather not have the $1200 stimulus if it costs me $18,863 later.
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed a second Stimulus Bill of $900 billion giving most adults another stimulus of $600. We have not assessed what the payback for this particular stimulus will be.
These three stimulus packages ($2.5T, $900 B, $1.9T) added increased the national debt by $5.3 trillion in less than one year. This total is more than the combined cost of World War I, $334 billion, and World War II, $4.1 trillion “adjusted for inflation to today’s dollars” (“The Cost of U.S. Wars Then and Now,”Military History, by Norwich University, October 20, 2020). Such debt is a recipe for bankrupting America and those doing it must know this.
So what is a trillion dollars? To begin with a trillion is the number one followed by twelve zeros. A trillion dollars is a thousand billion and a billion is a thousand million. One mathematician gave us a very practical way of evaluating our outstanding debt. One trillion one-dollar bills stacked atop each other (not end to end but flat) would reach nearly 68,000 miles into space—a third of the way to the moon (See CNN News Cast, Feb. 4, 2009). If so, the debt thus far incurred by the coronavirus alone, $5.3 trillion, would reach to the moon and two-thirds back to earth.
Senator Mitch McConnell gave another illustration just as awe striking. He calculated that if we spent a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, we still would not have spent a trillion dollars—only three-fourths of a trillion dollars (Ibid).
Who will pay these three coronavirus loans? Since we never liquidate our debt—only increase and pass it on to posterity—our grandchildren yet unborn, will be saddled with this debt plus the interest on it. How can I prophesy with such certainty? The United States has not been free of debt since Warren G. Harding 100 years ago (US Debt by President by Dollar and Percentage Who Increased the U.S. Debt the Most? Depends on How You Measure It. By Kimberly Amadeo, Updated November 04, 2019)?
Yes the coronavirus is a massive rogue wave that has sunk thousands of businesses in its path but following closely behind it is a tsunami many times larger—the national debt—that is and will bring down this country because our children cannot pay it either. Our national debt has soared to $28.09 trillion (USDebtClock.org). This debt in one dollar bills laid flat atop each other, not just the COVID portion as mentioned, will now go to the moon and back almost five times. We are drowning in debt.
I ask students, “Who gets to go without so that this debt can be paid?” “Go without!!!?” That is a concept foreign to this generation!! They do not know, and neither do their parents and grandparents who laid it on their backs. When they are told that their share to liquidate this debt is not just $37,726 for the coronavirus bailouts, but $224,456 per taxpayer—due immediately, they get angry (see USDebtClock.org). “Someone should have told me that government handouts are not free.”
The 13th Amendment ending slavery has been rescinded, they are America’s new slaves. Bondage was given them before their birth, or while they were in the womb, or before they were old enough to know what it meant to be sold into slavery. The past and present generations wanted nice costly programs for free and were willing to sell their children to have them. Worse, the older generation is still anxious to incur even more debt on our defenseless children and grandchildren. Are we not the most debt addicted, insensitive generation in U.S. History?
Yes these are hard times and in such adding to a national debt is said to be justified. What isn’t justified is that in prosperous times, of which most of the last 70 years have been, we should, and could have, liquidated that debt. Then a $5.3 trillion debt to handle a virus could have been repaid in the next prosperous time or perhaps by the children, but not now. We have squandered our wealth in foreign endless wars, foreign aid and domestic welfare.
Both parties are responsible for this debt. I had hoped with the robust Trump economy (the best in several decades) that we could start paying off the debt but now chances of removing, even the coronavirus portion of the national debt enslaving us, is slim. Biden proposes $3 trillion for infrastructure updating. Trillions more debt Democrats plan for reparations for descendants of slaves, the green new deal, and free college for everyone. It is hard to believe that the Democrats are not purposely pushing us over a cliff destroying the once wealthiest nation in world history.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
In March Congress added $2.3 trillion to the national debt with the stimulus package. Most were jubilant to receive a stimulus check. But what does this mean? Just to pay this back today would cost each taxpayer $18,863 (compare U.S. Debt Clocks Nov. 2019 with April 2020).
In May the Treasury Department announced that it will borrow another $3 trillion this quarter making our total coronavirus indebtedness $5.3 trillion and thus what we owed for the smaller loan more than doubles (Matt Egan, The US is becoming the king of debt. It’s a necessary risk, CNN Business). To pay both loans in August would be more than $37,726 per U.S. taxpayer.
Those who pay no federal taxes, which is about 50% of American adults, are not assessed. “The latest spending packages are estimated to be worth about 14% of the country’s economy…the national debt soared above 100% of GDP” (“Coronavirus: US to borrow record $3tn as spending soars,” BBC News, May 4, 2020).
So what is a trillion dollars? To begin with a trillion is the number one followed by twelve zeros. A trillion dollars is a thousand billion and a billion is a thousand million. These numbers mean very little to the average person. who count their money in tens, twenties and hundreds .
One mathematician gave us a very practical way of evaluating our outstanding debt. One trillion one-dollar bills stacked atop each other (not end to end but flat) would reach nearly 68,000 miles into space—a third of the way to the moon (See CNN News Cast, Feb. 4, 2009). If so, the debt thus far incurred by the coronavirus alone, $5.3 trillion, would reach to the moon and two-thirds back to earth.
Senator Mitch McConnell gave another illustration just as awe striking. He calculated that if we spent a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, we still would not have spent a trillion dollars—only three-fourths of a trillion dollars (Ibid).
Who will pay these two coronavirus loans? Since we never liquidate our debt—only increase and pass it on to posterity—our grandchildren yet unborn, will be saddled with this debt plus the interest on it. How can I prophesy with such certainty? The United States has not been free of debt since Warren G. Harding 98 years ago (US Debt by President by Dollar and Percentage Who Increased the U.S. Debt the Most? Depends on How You Measure It. By Kimberly Amadeo Updated November 04, 2019)?
Yes the coronavirus is a massive rogue wave that has sunk many businesses in its path but following closely behind it is a tsunami almost six times its size—the national debt—that is and will bring down this country because our children cannot pay it either. Our national debt has soared to $25.5 trillion, and with the newly announce $3 trillion loan to $28.5 trillion. Our debt in one dollar bills laid flat atop each other will now go to the moon and back almost five times.
I ask students, “Who gets to go without so that this debt can be paid?” “Go without!!!?” That is a concept foreign to this generation!! They do not know, and neither do their parents and grandparents who laid it on their backs. When they are told that their share to liquidate this debt is not just $37,726 for a coronavirus, but $205,440 per taxpayer—due immediately, they get angry (see USDebtClock.org). Someone should have told them that government handouts are not free.
The 13th Amendment ending slavery has been rescinded, they are America’s new slaves. Bondage was given them before their birth, or while they were in the womb, or before they were old enough to know what it meant to be sold into slavery. The past generation wanted nice costly programs for free and were willing to sell their children to have them. Worse, the older generation is still anxious to incur even more debt on our defenseless children and grandchildren. Are we not the most debt addicted, insensitive generation in U.S. History?
Yes these are hard times and in such adding to a national debt is said to be justified. What isn’t justified is that in prosperous times, of which most of the last 70 years have been, we should, and could have, liquidated that debt. Then a $5.3 trillion debt to handle a virus could have been repaid in the next prosperous time or perhaps by the children, but not now. We have squandered our wealth in foreign endless wars, foreign aid and domestic welfare.
I had hoped with the robust Trump economy (the best in several decades) that we could get to paying back the debt. I previously published that we could survive and turn things around if we did three things: made significant cuts in our top 6 major expenditures, did not elect a big spending congress, and did not incur a big funding event. Unfortunately we made no major cuts in spending, maintained a big spending congress, and did incur a big funding event—the coronavirus.
Trump remains our only hope for rebuilding the economy because he already did it once, but chances of removing even the coronavirus portion of the national debt enslaving us is slim.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
