Welfare spendathon begins today
The game is on. The players are at the table. 435 House and 100 Senate members are bellied up -- gambler visors on, chips in hand, and big-shot stogies belching noxious fumes. The Great American Giveaway is about to begin -- ante up.
Today, your elected representatives will vote on the $790 billion, "slimmed-down" version of the Porkulus Package. Never mind that not one of them has had time to read its 1,434 pages since the revised compromise version was made available to them late Thursday night. Never mind that the compromise version now includes the foundation for a government takeover of American health care.
Calculated desperation
If the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has given it a thumbs down because it will cause more harm than good and guarantee spiraling inflation, if your elected representatives don't know what's in the bill, then what's the rush to mire the nation and our children in debt?
You know why.
The Democrats must rush this through to get socialism's "nose under the tent." The redistribution of money, goods, and services to those at the bottom and non-producers by pilfering from the wealthy and the engines that power America smacks of delusional behavior. But eviscerating our capitalist system and mortgaging our children into a life of indebtedness smacks of criminal behavior.
In the first year after enactment of the bill, federal welfare spending will skyrocket upward, rising from 2008's $491 billion to $601 billion in FY 2009. This one year increase of welfare spending alone is the largest in United States history -- and welfare spending will continue to rise even further in future years.
Collaboration and threats
The stimulus bill is a welfare spendathon, a massive down payment on The Messiah's promise to "spread the wealth around."
Obama and his cronies have premeditatedly planned to spend their way out of a recession while cunningly increasing government meddling in the affairs of business and the lives of Americans.
And there is nobody or nothing to stop them. If only Republican Senators Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Arlen Specter had the courage and integrity, the backbone, of Senator Judd Gregg. While conservative House members stood firm and resolute, these three senators capitulated and bought into the scheme.
And in addition to Obama's recent marathon fear-mongering, his threat-filled barnstorming tour, it appears that Speaker Pelosi has done her share of threatening in the House. Pelosi changed the House rules to demand that Democrat Representatives swear to vote "yes" before they can read bills -- any bill -- on which they are being ordered to vote yes.
The time has passed
There is absolutely no evidence that any stimulus package in the past 80 years ever accelerated economic activity -- not FDR's New Deal, not Japan's during the 1990s, and not President Bush's in 2008. In fact, economic evidence suggests that such spending packages actually intensified and prolonged the anguish.
Instead of rushing through legislation that will likely have no short-term effects on the economy, is guaranteed to have adverse, long-term consequences, and that primarily benefits hand-picked interest groups, Congress should have cut spending and cut marginal tax rates across the board -- in other words, effected real economic stimulus.
But you voted for change and now it's too late.