Lefties whine about red tape keeping them from that great greenie cash heap in the

What’s a hog wallow to pigs who can’t jump in?

Try a story in The Guardian, where greenie leftists parade their grievances about Joe Biden’s bureaucratic obstacles keeping them from getting their hands on all that greenie cash in Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act:

When President Joe Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act a year ago, Adrien Salazar was skeptical.

The landmark climate bill includes $60bn for environmental justice investments — money he had fought for, as policy director for the leading US climate advocacy coalition Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJA).

But after much discussion, the grassroots group realized they did not have the resources to chase after IRA funding. It would have to hire new staff and develop a specific program to apply for grants to access those funds. The coalition is stretched thin as is: organizing local and state campaigns, leading community engagement, and planning youth programming. GGJA decided it would not apply to funding opportunities at all.

You can bet Joe Biden wanted to get that cash for these groups.  In his world, nothing buys loyalty like cash.  Plus, he could get more of his greenie agenda on a micro level — from bike lanes to recycling and composting requirements to natural gas–powered city buses to nuisance lawsuits to gluing their hands on museum floors — done through the lobbyings and harassings of his allied NGOs.  Biden’s the Big Daddy, the Big Guy for that kind of cash ladling.

Yet the bureaucracy is so bad that they can’t touch it.  They can only look on, tantalized, at all that green cash sitting there and nobody to spend it.

Perhaps the big corporate outfits will snap it away.  Perhaps fraudster groups from the COVID shovel-out era with no purpose other than extracting the grants will end up with it.

Or, to follow on from what Mickey Kaus notes, perhaps Republicans should get up the gumption to take that undistributed cash out of circulation by returning it to the Treasury, shutting the whole spendathon down. 

Good lord–the “Inflation Reduction Act” has $60 *billion* to fund, not cleaner air or carbon alternatives, but a massive network of (Dem) activist enviro groups. But it’s so bureaucratic and complex they can’t get the money! Solution: Kill it, save $60B. https://t.co/DJeiyVjyyE

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 27, 2023

Whatever it is, the greenie groups that wanted it so badly aren’t getting it.

Nice work, Joe.  Every once in a while, your incompetence makes the world a better place.

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