http://tinyurl.com/db4ua8
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What a joke. Your Congress has voted to spend almost $790 billion of your
money on a stimulus package that not a single member of either chamber has
read.
The 1,073-page document wasn't posted on the government's Web site until
after 10 p.m. the day before the vote to pass it was taken. I don't care if
you're Evelyn Wood, you can't read almost 1,100 pages of the lawyer talk
that makes up all legislation in eight or 10 hours.
The criminal part of this boondoggle is divided into two parts. The first is
the Democrats promised to post the bill a full 48 hours before the vote was
taken to allow members of the public to see what they were getting for their
money. Both parties voted unanimously to do this ... and they lied.
It didn't happen. Why am I not surprised? Congress lying to the American
people has become part of their job description. They can't be trusted on
anything anymore.
...
It's really too bad President Obama couldn't figure out a way to jettison
these two who are poster children for everything that is wrong in
Washington. The Associated Press called the birth of the stimulus bill
"sausage making" in the best tradition of Washington politics as usual.
The second part of the crime is the contents of the bill itself. Far from
being only about jobs, infrastructure and tax cuts as promised, the stimulus
bill stimulates a bunch of other stuff as well. Eight billion dollars for
high-speed rail lines, including a proposed line between Las Vegas and Los
Angeles. This little bit of second story work wasn't even in the House
version of the bill.
It started in the Senate as a $2 billion project, and came out of the
conference committee costing a whopping $8 billion. Gee, now who would that
benefit? Oh yeah, the Senate majority leader is from Nevada.
...
So far, we have an anemic stimulus bill and some sort of vague proposal from
the secretary of the Treasury to deal with the banking crisis -- a proposal
that landed with a thud last week -- as the two first steps toward solving a
financial crisis that is threatening to take down the country.
Obama better step up his game, or it's going to be a short four years in
office.
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An Obama lackey at CNN starting to see through the veil of illusion.
Too late.
- Bob
P.S. - Hey Geoff, hurry, you better whisk a tersely worded email off to
Cafferty, to let him know he's totally alone in his extreme opinion. I'm
sure he'll see the light and immediately start advocating that we adopt
Australia's constitutional monarchy. House Banking Chairman Barney Frank can
be our first queen, he really loves regulating financial institutions. Well,
except for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Anyway, hurry. Cafferty apparently is
unaware that he's either A or B. Knowing that will doubtless force him to
reassess his lonesome worldview.
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