One of the first things that Obama did when he got into office was sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It was billed as a response to the recession that began during the Bush years. In reality it was to make sure that his backers got paid for putting him in office.

Hundreds of millions of dollars went into shoring up union jobs.  Huge car companies were in serious trouble, but more importantly, their union workers were in trouble. If they lost their jobs, then the union bosses lost dues. These are the same dues that get pumped into democrat election campaigns all over the country. Public unions also got a sizeable chunk as well. Nothing says money laundering like pushing money at teacher’s unions. The democrats are guaranteed to get a chunk of that taxpayer funded graft back.

And here we are again with a newly installed Democratic President. The seat even came with a ready made emergency that needs fixing. In response to the pandemic Biden has pushed the 1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief act. There are the usual payoffs to the unions and money to the blue states that adopted the most restrictive lockdowns.

The bill contains billions of dollars for other Democratic priorities including $350 billion to state and local government — of which New York can expect to see at least $50 billion — $130 billion in school funding, $19.1 billion to state and local governments as housing aid.

This is all dressed up as helping the American people combat the COVID pandemic. There is a little of that in there, but there is more of everything else.

“Less than 1% of the COVID relief bill will actually go to vaccine development and distribution. When a top priority accounts for such a small part of the overall spending, it just shows how massive (and unnecessarily bloated) this spending bill is,” Freshman Staten Island Republican Nicole Malliotakis said in a tweet blasting the bill Saturday.

Its almost insulting that they even associate it with the pandemic. Just call it what it is, the “Democratic Payback and Payoff Act of 2021.”