Posted by
Bob on Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:16:58 AM
We are hearing that we will all “die” or the earth will explode (oh that’s global warming … sorry) if we don’t all agree to give away an additional $850B (that’s BILLION people). We already gave away $750B a few months ago and nobody knows where the hell that money went, I think it went to banks to buy new jets or to buy super bowl ads or something, but who really knows and it seems not to matter anyway.
Lets slow down here..... I suggest that we figure out where that $750B went first and then see if it actually helped the economy before we spend another $850B. This is absolutely crazy! We have a President saying that we “must do something now” and that this is “a crisis not seen since the great depression”.. and both of those statements are absolute “crap” (excuse my use of the expletive but there is no other way to describe it).
First, I need to see why it is so urgent? If a gigantic influx of money is needed to fix our economy then the $750B spent last October would have fixed the problem… right? We’ll let’s see if that made any difference…. Since we’re hearing that we need another $850B can we assume that the $750B didn’t work… if that’s the case why pour more money on it?
Here’s why, it is the only way liberals know how to deal with any problem (which is not really a solution) to pour money on it. We heard this about poverty, it’s about the money. Well we probably spent Trillions of dollars (yes people trillions – not billions) on the “War on Poverty” over the last 40 years and unless you can show me something I don't already know, it looks like we still got people in poverty…. Sensible people will determine that the solution is not related to money but if you are a liberal you will say that there was not enough money “invested” in poverty … again (and I’m sorry to say) that is also “crap”.
How about our school system, the liberals will say we need to “invest” more money in education. In my school district they get about $14,000 per student (according to their published budget) and they say they need more. We all know that the public school systems are not doing their jobs, we are graduating less and less students every year. We all know that many of those that graduate are not even able to read at an acceptable level and they think more money will solve the problem…. You really think so? I don’t.
It’s like giving your kid $100 to go shopping for school supplies and she comes home with nothing and says “I don’t know where the money went but I need more since I still need supplies”… a sensible parent will say “I gave you $100 and you wasted it so you’ll have to learn to do without or go out and get a job and buy your own supplies”… a liberal will give her another $200 this time and “hope” she finds some supplies and blame the Bush Administration for not providing a “program” to teach their child the importance of shopping wisely, it cannot be the child’s fault and they're too busy worrying about the environment to actually parent their children. What a way to teach responsibility. It’s the same thing with the government, there needs to be some accountability…. What a concept, to actually have to account for what you do or say!
As for the statement “a crisis not seen since the great depression”, again this is a good way to frighten those Americans that do not take the few minutes a day to follow what’s really going on by telling them that we’ll all “die” if we don’t do something right now, right at this moment. This is the way for the “socialist” to take control, it’s an old tactic, make the situation sound so bad and so desperate that the only way for all of us to survive is to have the “savior” ride in and “save us”. This is how Hitler came into power and how the communist took over in Russia and the old Eastern Block. This tactic is by no means new, scare the day lights out of the “common people” and they’ll accept anything in order to “be saved”.
Go back to the late 1970’s; when the peanut farmer was President (Jimmy Carter for those not old enough to remember the dire days of the Carter administration), we had mortgage interested rates at 15 – 18%, inflation rates of 10 – 12% and high unemployment, just as we do now but it was worse back then. So don’t say that today is the worst since the great depression, it is just a scare tactic and unfortunately it seems to be working.
The economic “Stimulus” is anything but a stimulus. The only thing stimulated by this package of “pork barrel” spending are the loins of the left wing liberal seeing the government get involved in every aspect of our lives. This excites the liberal since they do not have the guts to fend for themselves and since they would rather be dependent on the government they want you to be dependent as well… what’s the old saying, “misery loves company”.
I took a look at the “stimulus” package that was passed by the House of Representatives (remember it is dominated by Liberal Democrats) and here is some of what I saw:
- $6B for high speed internet access for rural and underserved areas
o Oh wow.. now farmers will be able to surf porn while tilling the fields
- $250M in tax breaks for movie producers
o So they can make movies about the “great” Obama administration
- $4.5M for an “eco” park in Boynton Beach Florida
o I feel so much better that the global warming in Boynton Beach will be reduced
- $6B to weatherize modest income homes
o I thought it was the responsibility of the homeowner to take care of their property … my home is weatherized is your’s? You could buy a lot of insulation for $6B… maybe enough to do a couple of houses..
- $1.8M for tennis courts in Virginia Beach.
o I’m feeling even more stimulation, must be a really nice court…..
- $90B to give the states to pay for Medicaid
o Bail out the states because they can’t afford the massive welfare programs they put in place
§ I don’t get Medicaid do you?
I could go on and on… this information is readily available, if I can find it anyone can. So go look and see where they are planning to spend $850B … it’s nothing more then a massive spending bill that will insert the government in every aspect of our lives and it has noting to do with stimulating of the economy.
It was said that with all of this bailout money we “may” create (or save) 3.3M jobs. Let’s do the math:
$750B + $850B = $1.6T total bailout.
$1.6T / 3.3M Jobs = $484,000
So we will spend about a half of million dollars to create (or save) one job, yea that makes sense! Are you kidding’ me.. come on lets get serious here. This is proof that what we have here is an administration that clearly does not know what they are doing. They are lost in the challenge of actually governing. It easy to spout all types of campaign promises but now they have to actually govern and it’s not going well.
We have a call for action, in liberal terms that means “spend money” and to do it as quickly as possible. This decision will have ramifications for generations and must not be taken lightly. Do you want to saddle your grandchildren with budget deficits for ever, in order for Obama to “look like” he is doing something even though it will not achieve what he says it will? Of course not and tell them so! How come when a Republican is President deficits are bad and now when a Democrat is President all of a sudden deficits are good? It does not add up!
I call on everyone in America, because these decisions will affect everyone, to take a bit of time and learn a little about what you’re being told. It just doesn’t add up and we need to have it challenged. Obama has accused the Republicans of “playing politics” with the future of America and he is the one actually doing it. He proposes a spending bill, the largest in history, that has nothing in it that will actually stimulate the economy and he is accusing the other side of “politics”. It is not “politics” if we are challenging them to “account” for what they say or to justify their point. They are not above scrutiny; their actions cause this level of scrutiny. These people clearly do not know what in hell they are doing.
If you really want to stimulate the economy there is only one thing that needs to be done. This is a proven method and has worked many times in the past. It is how we recovered form the disaster called the Carter Administration; we gave the people more of the money they earn to spend in their own local communities.
It called “TAX CUT”, by giving the wage earner more of his own money to spend or save (by him paying less to the government) is the only way to recover form a situation like we are in today. It’s not giving tax rebates to those that don’t pay taxes, it’s not “investing” even more money in the failing school system, it’s not building “eco” parks, its not giving tax breaks to movie producers, it’s about giving the everyday working guy (like me and you) more of our own money to spend right where we live. This will work because it has in the past and it just makes “common” sense.
The problem is that for the Liberal Democrat Government “giving” you more of your own money does not allow them to decide how to spend it. It all about the power and the control. You see the Liberal Socialists in the Government think that you are not smart enough to decide for yourself and they need to do it for you… again it’s because they think you’re too stupid. However for the 53% of the people that actually voted in November they may be right.
Again, get the government out of our lives and let us make our own decisions as to where we spend our money, what businesses we want to support, buy the kind of cars we want to buy and make our own local decisions as to how we educate our children. We are smart enough to take care of ourselves, remember it’s only a crisis that needs to have $850B poured on it because they say it is. Just because they believe it does not make it true (and I don't think that they actually believe it either). America is still the strongest nation in the world and we will recover from this "crisis" but only if the government does not try to fix it. Trust the American people and we'll do what is right!
Thanks for reading!
Bob
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