We all remember Oprah Winfrey's most famous line during her reign as the Queen of Daytime TV. It was a nice moment for all the folks who were on the receiving end, and for the rest of us to witness on our television screens.
Now a different giveaway reportedly is being seriously considered by the Biden administration: Paying many of those who entered the country illegally and were separated under the Trump administration enough money - as much as $450,000 each, or close to $1 million per family - to put them in the richest 1 percent.
Per the Wall Street Journal:
If this comes to fruition, and anything remotely resembling these payments are made, imagine the impact it will have on those in Central America, Haiti and other parts of the world who are thinking of coming to the U.S. and need a little more incentive to make the long, dangerous trek: A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, along with the ability to live in America permanently. It might as well be called the Caravan Incentive Project.
It's hard to imagine how the Biden administration could more thoroughly mishandle the catastrophe at the border - and Americans know it, despite the major networks and most cable news channels largely ignoring the story. The data say it all: The U.S. is on pace to take more than 2.3 million people into the country this year. That's more than the populations of Boston, Washington, D.C., and Denver combined. And the numbers just keep going up, not down, despite Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying with a straight face that
the border is closed.
So, just how much is the $450,000 that some migrants could receive?
It's more than some families of those murdered on 9/11 received.
"If a U.S. service member is killed in the line of duty, their next-of-kin gets an insurance payment of $400,000," according to Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), an Afghan war veteran who lost an eye in combat.
And, during the height of COVID-19, many Americans who lost their jobs or businesses received a fraction of that sum in compensation.
But, sure, let's pay $450,000 or even more to those who cut in line and came here illegally.
This is pure insanity. The president should have to answer for this.
But with the president not holding a solo press conference in 100 days and going nearly 10 weeks without doing a challenging sit-down interview, the White House plan apparently is for him to take no questions beyond those from
extremely friendly news outlets
Playing it safe worked during the 2020 campaign. It worked for the first few months of Biden's presidency, too. But now, with reports like these coming from the Wall Street Journal, running and hiding is no longer an option.
