Just sitting here seething about the two Socialist-Fascist Missouri Republicans that voted YES for the bailout:
*Roy Blunt and Joanne Emerson * http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1424/show What a travesty. Deb Wells On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:43 AM, John M Bubb <jmb...@att.net> wrote: > Well, as Boortz points out, we're not seeing much recovery. As the > imbecile Socialist-Fascists could point out if they were to acknowlege this, > only a small fraction of the "stimulus" counterfeit has been spent yet (you > can guess whose buddies got the FRN's first). > > In fact, it all takes time. As anyone with the faintest notion of > economics knows, the "stimulus" is not going to cause recovery, it will > prevent it, and make it so much worse. > > But as I said, little of it has been spent yet. It will take time. This > gives us TWO opportunities: > > 1. Relentlessly plan and provide for your own safety, along with others > who are on the correct side of this. > 2. It gives us time to CONTINUE to SPREAD THE TRUTH about this ugly > evil - MAYBE WE CAN EVEN FORESTALL MOST OF THIS UGLY MESS. > > We are making progress. But a lot of confused people are springing up now, > who do not understand the truth of the causes or cures. Some believe that > if they were in charge and doing the same stuff, that would somehow be > good. It won't. We must KNOW / LEARN (and for many of us the learning is > just starting, and that's good too!) the truth and pass it on, RELENTLESSLY. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* mo...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mo...@googlegroups.com]*on Behalf > Of *fbelli...@yahoo.com > *Sent:* Monday, July 06, 2009 3:30 PM > *To:* MLC Google Group; Young Conservatives > *Cc:* ACMN; Campaign for Liberty-SGF; Missouri C4L; rl...@yahoogroups.com; > Savage Group > *Subject:* [MOC4L] Neal Boortz - How's the Stimulus Working for You? > > > http://townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2009/07/06/hows_the_stimulus_working_for_you_so_far > > How's the stimulus working for you so far? > Neal Boortz > Monday, July 06, 2009 > Well now. Our economy is really lunging forward, isn’t it? What a ride! > Are you holding on? We’re billions of dollars further in debt (trillions?) > and the economy is still stagnant. TARP, the stimulus bill, massive debts > our children and grandchildren will have to pay .. and what has this all > brought us? Banks aren’t lending, businesses aren’t hiring – let along > expanding – and consumers aren’t buying. Oh, to be sure, the malls are > crowded. Turn up the thermostats and see how long that lasts. Those aren’t > shoppers, they’re just your neighbors trying to stay cool while watching the > latest absurd teen fashion and freak shows. Do what the initials SNAFU > mean? That word was created to define government action, or inaction as the > case may be. In 1942 Time magazine carried this revelation: "Last week U.S. > citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu.” > Well .. if there was ever a SNAFU, our economy would fit the description. To > fully understand this, you have to know what the acronym stands for. Go > ahead … Google it. <http://magazine.townhall.com/beck> So … after > hundreds of billions of dollars, government seizures of GM, Citigroup and > others, imminent bank nationalization, massive favors handed to unions at > the expense of private investors, and a pantload of new czars in the White > House … all done to kick start our economy … what do we have. SNAFU, that’s > what. Or TAUFU, if you like. Look … I’m just a talk show host. What the > hell do I know? I’ve been sitting behind a microphone for 40 years now > sparring with hundreds of thousands of callers who generally knew a helluva > lot more than the hundreds of politicians I’ve interviewed over that time. > Having said that … I’m betting that this particular talk show host can, in > just a few hundred words, give you some better ideas for kick starting our > economy than you’ve heard from Obama and his Democrat sycophants over the > past four months. Oh, and throw in most of the Republicans as well. It’s > not all that hard, really. All you have to do is recognize and acknowledge > the true goal of the political class. It’s summed up in one word: POWER. You > think they actually give a flying Krispy Kreme about you? What? I know you > were born at night, but was it last night? They may care about your vote .. > but that’s it. It’s power, my friends. Power and little else. Politicians > will spout some lofty rhetoric about public service and wanting to leave > this country a better place when they leave office; but, with few > exceptions, that changes rather quickly. Once they get used to the > privileges and the perks that go with their exalted positions their mindset > changes. These people don’t name research centers, bridges, parks, sports > stadiums, university buildings, highways and office buildings after > themselves because of their dedication to public service. Where does > that leave us? It leaves us in a situation where the people in power, the > people who make the rules and decide how our economy is going to be fixed, > are going to worry first about preserving and expanding their power and > secondly (if they have time) about putting us back on a track to prosperity. > The basics: What does it take to get our economy moving again? Spending. > If nobody is spending nobody needs to produce. You aren’t going to gather > the raw materials and personnel together to spend time and money creating a > product or service unless you have some degree of confidence that there are > people out there who either have or can borrow the money to buy it. Our > economy is a constant day-by-day election process. The products and services > put into the marketplace are the candidates. Consumers are the voters. > Dollars are the ballots. If a candidate gets no votes, the candidate either > reinvents himself or just simply goes away. The whole process slows down or > grinds to a halt if the voters don’t have ballots to cast. Clearly, to > stimulate our economy money had to be spent. That’s basic. The question, > then, was who gets to spend the money? If the American public gets to make > the choices as to when and where the money is spent, that equates to power > for the people. If, on the other hands, those decisions are made by the > political class, it means no power to the people – the power goes to the > elected elite. Now would someone please try to explain to me why these > politicians, as completely immersed as they are in building their individual > power bases, would ever want to turn over the power that goes with spending > these huge sums of money to the great unwashed? How in the world is that > going to benefit a politician? How do you generate a campaign ad for radio > telling the voters that you deserve reelection because the private consumers > in your district kept the local hardware store and a few clothing shops in > business with their spending? Better you should be able to lay claim to a > few road widening and resurfacing projects and a new rehearsal hall for the > local high school band. Do you remember how much that stimulus bills > was? Let’s just call it $750 billion. For the sake of argument let’s accept > that this $750 billion had to be borrowed and spent to get our economy > cranking again. Once you’ve accepted the $750 billion figure we’re going to > borrow, you then have to decide just who gets to spend that money and what > they get to spend it on. Here’s an idea from Texas congressman Louis > Gohmert (R 1st Dist.). Gohmert wanted a tax holiday. I’ve taken his idea and > expanded it a bit. Last year Gohmert was floating an idea of allowing the > American people to go one full month without paying any federal income or > payroll taxes. The idea was that they would then spend this money and > stimulate the economy. When Obama started talking about the $750 billion > dollar stimulus price tag I did some quick calculations. It seems that $750 > billion is almost exactly equal to the amount of federal income, Social > Security and Medicare taxes withheld from American paychecks over a > six-month period. Are you following me? How about not a one-month tax > holiday, but six months? How about letting people keep almost their entire > paychecks for one-half of a year? So -- here are the two possible > scenarios our politicians had to work with: 1. Borrow the $750 billion > and let the politicians (the looters) decide how it is going to be spent to > stimulate our economy. 2. Give the producers a six month period in which > they owe no federal income or payroll taxes. For these six months they get > to keep their checks. This puts $750 billion into the hands of American > workers – American producers – to spend and invest. Either way you are > going to have to borrow $750 billion. If you give the people a six-month tax > holiday the money will have to be borrowed to replace the lost revenue. You > see it, don’t you? There is one huge difference between the two plans. Under > the government spending scenario the politicians get to decide how the money > is spent. In other words, they get the power. Remember … power is the goal. > It’s everything to the political class. Politicians wanted to decide which > road is built, which park is refurbished, and which research project gets > additional funding. Every one of these decisions would be made based on the > political capital it will generate. Under the tax holiday plan the > people, not the politicians, get to cast the ballots/dollars. Spending > choices would not be made on the basis of political expediency, but on the > free choices of the people. Businesses that delivered a good product and > good customer service would get the votes, not politicians who delivered a > pork project to their districts. A dollar spent on a new lawnmower at the > hardware store does not generate a single vote. A dollar spent on a new job > mowing grass along an Interstate highway does. So … there was a decision > to be made. Massive amounts of money were going to be borrowed and spent to > stimulate our economy (or so the storyline went). But just who would get to > spend the money? Do you remember that famous Bill Clinton line? It was > January of 1999. The place was Buffalo, New York. The federal government had > actually collected more tax money that it needed. There was a surplus. > Someone asked Clinton if, considering the surplus, there might be a tax cut. > His response: "We could give it all back to you and hope you spend it > right... But ... if you don't spend it right, here's what's going to > happen.” He then went on to describe the gloomy future of Social Security > when more people are collecting benefits than paying taxes. Sure .. it’s > your money. You worked for it; you earned it. That money actually represents > the expenditure of a portion of your life … and here’s this politician > telling you that even though he doesn’t actually need that money right now, > he’s going to go ahead and keep it because if he returns it to its rightful > owner – you – then you won‘t “spend it right.” Now excuse me, but don’t you > get to decide what would be the right way and the wrong way to spend your > money? You know the rest of this story. The politicians in Washington > decided that they would be doing the spending, not you. You just could not > be trusted to spend it “right.” So President Obama sent the word to Princess > Pelosi to gather together all of the spending dreams and schemes of her > Democrat members of congress and compile them into a massive spending bill. > The bill would be pure pork and designed for nothing more than to secure > reelections; but it would be called stimulus. Now I could waste a few > thousand words here describing all of the absurd ways this money is being > spent. Vice President Biden actually told us that there would be waste. He > was talking to business leaders in New York in early June when he said that > waste would be inevitable in spending the stimulus money. Inevitable doesn’t > begin to cover it. OK … just a few examples: • $650 million for digital > television converter boxes • $248 million for furniture at Homeland > Security’s offices • $850 million to manage Forest Service lands • $88 > million to design an icebreaker (a ship, not clever bar conversation) • > $150 million for facilities at the Smithsonian Now tell me .. just how > are these projects going to stimulate our economy? But, on the other hand, > what if this money was in the hands of the people who earned it? They could > be buying new flat-screen televisions instead of converter boxes. The new > furniture could be for our living rooms instead of government offices. The > money spent to manage Forest Service lands (what stimulus!) could be spent > to develop privately-owned property. The icebreaker money could be spent by > those who earned it on a new fishing boat or a cruise. And the $150 million > for the Smithsonian could have been spent on visits to local museums and > attractions .. as chosen by the people. I walk through the shopping > malls and drive down the streets distressed over the numbers of closed > businesses and empty storefronts. Each closed business is lost jobs and > shattered dreams. Each shuttered window is a hole in our economy. Government > spending on digital converter boxes, icebreakers and managing Forest Service > lands weren’t going to keep these businesses open. $750 billion in extra > dollars in the hands of American consumers might, though, have done the > trick. Come on, folks. Try to think with that part of your brain you > developed after government schools. This whole spending boondoggle wasn’t > designed to get our economy going again. It was designed to increase the > size and power of our Federal government and to inoculate the political > class against voter disgust. These are people who think that America is > great because of government; and the more government we have the better > America is. This is why the stimulus money had to be spent by the government > sector … not the ordinary, hard-working masses. We just could not be trusted > to spend that money the “right” way; and the right way, of course, is in an > effort to strengthen government. In the meantime … step outside and > smell the stimulus. It’s really doing the job, isn’t it? Yup. Government > always knows best … especially when it comes to spending our money. The > people who made this decision will stand for reelection next year. You will > look at the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and tell > yourself that 434 of those rascals just have to go. Every one except yours. > The > rascals know this. 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