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Democrats: Are they beginning to panic?

The Really Big Show in Washington

Democrats are running the show in Washington these days, and it seems that everybody in the country is very unhappy with the show’s performance so far. Notice how some of the leaders are starting to unravel, and beginning to throw out little panic statements: Vice President Joe Biden admits they misread the economy, which indirectly is an admission they did the wrong things to help the economy. As unemployment worsened, they admit that only about 10% of their spending solution has been applied, and now are in a panic to get more of the spending out. So, a porker of a stimulus package is going to put on steroids and doled out faster, and that’s supposed to be the solution. What are they going to do, they wanted the states to spend the money as quickly as possible, but the states are in such bad shape financially, all they seem to be doing is baling water to save themselves. It’s not clear the states are in a position to even spend more money. You know the old saw, ‘it takes money to make money’ in this case it takes money to spend money; so are the states in a position to even spend the stimulus money. A good portion of the porker-stimulus was for social mandates and programs, feel-good projects and make-do jobs, so it is quite clear to me, the Congressional dole-out was not going to do the job anyway.

A lot of the people’s time and sweat in the form hard-earned dollars was earmarked in the stimulus package. A package of goodies, that the Democrats solely own now, is supposed to be out in the neighborhoods and countryside putting people back into jobs, yet the folks and businesses are failing left and right. People have lost their homes or in the process of losing their American dream and the leaders in Washington have punted. The Democrat controlled Congress, who did not even bother to read their handy-work, rushed in out, seemingly in the ‘dark of the night’ a gargantuan porkulus, that was filled with ‘feel-good’ bacon, and now we are all to be surprised it didn’t work to create jobs! It probably a good thing their handy work included a lot of welfare, food-stamps, unemployment funds and section-8 housing grants, because their constituents are going to need them. This is a picture of the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson ‘Great Society’ and the 1977 Jimmy Carter ‘Community Reinvestment Act’ all rolled into one big boondoggle. The stimulus package was a feel-good, do-gooder of legislation that should be renamed – ‘How to put people on welfare and make them government dependants for life, and vote Democrat Act of 2009,’ because that was what it was folks, pure and simple. The Democrats have shown their true colors on this one. I’m also wondering if those Republicans ‘in name only,’ the so-called moderates who helped the Democrats shovel this piece of dung through the Congress are happy today.

Charles Krauthammer: ‘The Stimulus I – A Trillion Dollar Mulligan

Now, rumblings of Stimulus II are being floated. They’ve barely got 10% of their so-called fix out the door, which represents about $81 billion, and now they want to start all over creating more debt. What kind of stuff are they puffing on down in Washington? This is truly remarkable. I cannot begin to understand the mindset of liberals. They are just wired bassackwards for some reason. They must be listening to their kook supporters out in the fringes of never-never-land. Folks, this is all why every election matters. People in Minnesota take note. It matters who you elect to lead you. It matters on who they hang around with, what their reputations and past history are. It matters that they have records all mottled with spending recklessly your hard-earned time. It matters that they are spending our kids’ futures, and jeopardizing the country with massive debts to foreign countries. Let this be a lesson, we don’t need more taxes and energy costs through ‘Cap and Trade’; and we don’t need a boondoggle of healthcare reform. We need sensible solutions that are known to work and are affordable way before they are put into legislation.

Write, call or shout, but let your Congressional leaders and the President know that spending more is not working, will not work and a different approach is needed from Washington. The answer is not more spending, which equals more taxation, which equals more government control over your lives. The answer doesn’t exist in hoping for that big-breakthrough energy technology that might just be around the corner. The answer is not in more convoluted, unreadable and incomprehensible legislation on Cap and Trade. This is the so-called answer to global climate change that is not clear exists, and is not clear would ever reduce greenhouse gasses anyway and appears to be a money grabbing scheme by certain individuals and groups to redistribute wealth, mostly to them. The answer lies in doing the fundamentals that have made our country great. Being responsible, taking care of the people’s business in a businesslike manner, and spending the least amount of our money as possible and unleashing the power and inventiveness and resourcefulness of the people and businesses alike. The best thing government can do, is all of these things, then get out of the way and watch as the wheels of progress begin to turn again.