Joe’s ‘American Con Job’

‘It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” President Biden said Wednesday in Pittsburgh of his $2 trillion “American Jobs Plan.” No freaking kidding: It’s half of his master plan to utterly remake the nation in the name of recovery from the pandemic.

America is reopening thanks to vaccines developed in record time, with the economy all set to return to the pre-COVID boom. Rather than let everyone gets back to work, Biden aims to spend unprecedented sacks of cash to grow the government and let Democratic interest groups gorge.

His “American Families Plan,” drops in a few weeks with another $2 trillion in spending. All after his $1.9 trillion “COVID relief ” package — and last year’s $4 trillion.,

“This is the moment to reimagine and rebuild a new economy,” the White House says. Why, other than the fact that Democrats think they can get away with it?

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in February — before Biden’s first big bill passed — that the economy will reach its previous peak by mid-year, no new federal cash baths needed. Biden’s proposal isn’t an American Jobs Plan, it’s a con job to sell America on central planning.

Infrastructure is supposedly at its center, yet even the White House says just a third of the money is for roads, bridges and so on, and it could be as little as 5 percent.

The biggest single part of this is $400 billion for more and higher-paid home-care workers. Why? Biden says such workers, mostly women of color, have been “unseen, underpaid and undervalued.”

The plan “prioritizes addressing longstanding and persistent racial injustice” (That’s what the last election was about?), so “new jobs created in clean energy, manufacturing and infrastructure” will be “accessible to women and people of color.” (Quotas?)

Biden also aims to revive dying privatesector unions, with items like $10 billion for a “Civilian Climate Corps” with “good-paying union jobs” in “advancing environmental justice.” Hmm: The National Bureau of Economic Research found that only 15 positions were created for every $1 million spent on “green jobs” in the Obama 2009 stimulus.

Biden pretends only those at the top were doing well pre-pandemic, “but everyone else was falling behind.” No: Employment for blacks, Latinos and other minorities was at record levels, with major pay gains.

And the tax hikes he says will (mostly) pay for his plan will override the Trump policies that produced that working-class boom.

The nation will pay a huge price if Biden somehow gets away with this turkey.