The Campaign Update: The Democrats Think You're All Stupid, Part 6,592
Yesterday on my Energy blog (blackmon.substack.com) I wrote about proposals by Democrats in Washington, DC and in California to pay a “rebate” to gasoline consumers, ostensibly to compensate them for the high gasoline prices at the pump. The federal proposal would pay every eligible adult $100 per owned automobile per month whenever the average price per gallon of regular exceeds $4.00 per gallon. The California rebate would pay a one-time $400 per car.
The federal program would of course be means-tested to only target Democrat base voters, and only award the “rebate” to those making $75,000 or less per year.
It’s the classic Democrat Party game:
First, create a problem, in this case, high gas prices;
Next, try to ignore the problem and blame it all on Republicans or some other boogeyman (in this case, “big oil”);
Next, execute the second step until the polls show the people are catching on and their re-election chances are swirling around the drain;
Finally, devise a federal program that would spend other people’s money to buy you enough votes to get you re-elected.
And here we are, with the Dems proposing debt-funded “rebates” that would pay their constituents to ignore the role they played in creating the problem in the first place. Of course, the trillions of dollars they’d have to print to support the payments will only create more hyper-inflation and cost those constituents far more than the rebate they’re going to get, but the Democrats, as always, rely on their friends in the media to keep their voters ignorant of that reality.
They think you’re all stupid, and all to frequently with far too many Americans, they turn out to be right.