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Barack Obama had the fictional feminist hero Julia. Joe Biden has Linda, the cartoon woman created to illustrate the Build Back Better welfare state he is planning.
© (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Biden's six-day visit to Ireland overlaps with Trump's weekend trip to his Turnberry golf course in Scotland. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) At least Linda actually has a face. The differences end there, however, as the "Life of Linda" is as sad, lonely, and loveless as government-dependent Julia's nine years ago.
Like Obama's much-mocked "Life of Julia" cartoons, which were designed to illustrate his cradle-to-grave spending dreams on the campaign trail, the Life of Linda debuted to sell Biden's unnecessary $1.75 trillion "human infrastructure" bill. Despite months of negotiations, the White House only released the text of the bill on Thursday, and even now, Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema haven't committed to supporting it with their crucial 49th and 50th votes. If it fails to pass, then leftists will block any vote on Biden's "hard infrastructure" bill
Naturally, Biden had to appeal to pathos by creating a caricature of an independent woman — a woman who needs no man but depends entirely on Uncle Sam.
The visibly pregnant Linda earns $40,000 annually, or $20 per hour, assuming the standard 2,000 hours of work per year, at a manufacturing facility in Peoria, Illinois. This is a little more than $10,000 short of the city's median salary and just $8 per hour below
what constitutes a living wage for a working adult with one child. But like Julia, Linda has a problem: The Life of Linda does not mention the father of her clump of cells.
Even if a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, she evidently still needs daddy government to foot her bills. Thanks to the BBB's proposed child tax credit, Biden boasts, Linda gets a free extra $3,600 annually. The "human infrastructure" bill would also effectively federalize child care so Linda (if a million day care providers suddenly appear out of nowhere to meet demand) need not spend more than 7% of her income on state-sanctioned day care.
Linda's son, Leo, also starts attending universal pre-K by age 3. After high school, Biden bucks will subsidize Leo's community college tuition, even though the College Board has
determined that grants and aid already render the average cost to be less than zero. All those subsidies are supposed to propel Leo into a "good-paying, union job as a wind turbine technician."
"Later in life, Linda needs home care and hearing care," the sad saga concludes. "Thanks to President Biden's plan, Linda can access affordable health care through Medicare, and Leo is able to afford at-home elder care for his mom."
The end!
At least Biden spared us Leo's origin story — unlike Julia, who "decided to have a child," as though babies really do come from storks and she ordered one out of a catalog.
The minutiae of Build Back Better includes policies deemed utterly broken by bipartisan economists, such as the obvious supply problem with the child care plan and the inflationary effects of topping trillions on top of trillions in spending at a time when goods and services are scarce. But the Life of Linda is a telling tragedy, one where a woman is "liberated" from the love and support of family and community and instead comes to rely upon the leviathan of the state.
"My body, my choice," but only so long as Uncle Sam is footing the bill. The Build Back Better plan is then best understood not as an investment in families but as a white flag from them — an admission that the dream of the City upon a Hill is well and truly dead.
Comment / Question
How do our distaff poster think about teh fiden ideal for female life under teh DemocratiCommunist party????
Seems Grim - but after all - the party has decided that women do not need men, nor vice - versa. and - teh party knows Best - as do big Bros fiden and Xi!
LGBTQ Rules Uber alles.
Buck fiden
From my cold dead hands!
Biden boasts that women can rely on Uncle Sam instead of a man with Build Back Better
