A Shameful Senate Scorecard: 1,100+ Days Without a Budget

Hat tip goes to U.S. Senator John Cornyn from Texas who points out the need for our Federal Government to go on a diet to curb its obscenely obsessive spending habit.

Over 1,100 Days Without a Budget

It's been over 1,100 days since the United States Senate, under the leadership of Harry Reid, has passed a budget. Sen. Reid has candidly admitted that the reason he has refused to bring a budget to the floor for a vote is that he doesn't want his Democratic colleagues to have to take a tough vote during an election year.

This shows a disappointing lack of leadership. We've been having elections every other year since the founding of our Republic. A fiscal blueprint for a country over $15 trillion in debt should not be held hostage to politics. But that seems to be the way Sen. Reid would have it. In response, Senate Republicans offered several different budgets on the floor for votes this week. Each was voted down by our Democratic colleagues, including the President’s budget, which failed to receive even one vote.

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“It’s been over 1,100 days since Senator (Harry) Reid allowed a budget to come to the floor (of the Senate), which strikes me as kind of all-you-can-eat diet. That is not really a diet. Uncle Sam needs to be put on a diet, and to live within our means. Forty cents of every dollar is borrowed money …”  --- Sen. John Cornyn, (R-TX)

Budget Cutting Made Easy by a Game Show Host

Hat tip goes to Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com where Tiffany Gabbay introduces the YouTube video below with these words:

“It’s so easy; a game show host can do it.”

That’s what legendary game show host and Hollywood conservative Chuck Woolery — perhaps best known for his time hosting “The Love Connection” and the pre-Pat Sajak years of “The Wheel of Fortune” — says about cutting government spending by $1.5 trillion over ten years…

In this video Woolery suggests 9 proposed government cuts to achieve what our inept Congress and it’s not so “Super Committee” could not do.

John Boehner where are you?

It is time for Speaker John Boehner, as leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, to show some real leadership. You have it within your power to stop the deficit spending now, not next year, not next decade, but now! Why are you not doing it?

Are you so comfortable being part of the entrenched GOP establishment in Washington that you happy with the status quo? Are you so confident of your re-election that you only have to pretend to be a conservative only around election time? 

We the people are growing increasingly uncomfortable with you and other so-called 'conservative' members of Congress. You are proving to be just as much do-nothing as your predecessors and as the House Democrats.

The Congressional Super Committee is a Super Smokescreen!

Blowing Smoke

My local newspaper, the Mansfield (Ohio) News-Journal ran an editorial from the October 8, 2011 The (Youngstown, Ohio) Vindicator. It was the second paragraph from the editorial titled, “Super committee must live up to its name, which made me see red:

The “Super Committee” … has been charged with the herculean task of crafting a plan to reduce the federal government’s $15 trillion deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years.

First off, I think the editors used the wrong term in describing the $15 trillion dollar Federal debt. They erroneously referred to it as “deficit.” My understanding is that the deficit applies to the current year’s excess expenditures beyond the revenue or taxes received. Deficit refers to short-term debt accumulated during the fiscal year. The overall Federal Debt is what the so-called “Super-Committee” is charged with reducing.

Second, the editors foolishly characterized the very modest and almost inconsequential reduction in the debt compared to the projected federal debt over the next 10 years  as “herculean.” What a joke.

At the current rate of overspending by this government, the Federal Debt will double in 10 years without the $1.2 trillion dollar reduction called for in the worthless Boehner-Reid-Obama debt deal crafted to “solve” the trumped up crisis that “threatened” to shut the government down this summer. The “reduction” will merely limit slightly the annual rate of growth of the overall federal debt.

What would really deserve the term “herculean” would be to cut current FY 2012 budget by $1.2 trillion dollars. That is the only action which would warrant the term “herculean!” The present Congress and President are truly incapable of any type of extraordinary efforts to curb government’s voracious spending habit!

We must go to a zero-based budget each year. We must demand that each agency or department justify their budget requests. We must move toward a balanced budget using the Cut, Cap and Balance approach or the (Representative Connie) Mack Penny Plan to get control of our runaway government spending that is killing our economy and country.

We need a new President and a new Congress in 2012, because this Congress and the GOP establishment headed by House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Party establishment headed by President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are absolutely unwilling and unable to do the job that they have been entrusted to perform.

The “Super Committee” is not a serious attempt to fix the Federal debt. It is a smokescreen put up by the President and Congress to pretend to be doing something, but all while incurring a larger and larger deficit each year!

Save Money & the Country: Let the Government Shutdown!

This is next year!

Senator Harry “White Flag of Surrender” Reid said this week that under no circumstances will he permit the defunding of the perverse, law-breaking Planned Parenthood Federation of America as part of any continuing resolution or authorized budget. He felt so strongly about this that he stated that even if it meant shutting down the federal government. Well, Harry if you feel that way, “Shut ‘er dooooowwwwnnnnn!!!!


On the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) funding issue alone it would be worth shutting down the non-essential workings of government. The PPFA has breached the trust of the American people by its pattern of lawbreaking and operating above the law. Undercover videos of the last few years revealed a pattern of dishonesty and lawbreaking, which rivals that of ACORN another leftist pillar of pernicious practices. Undercover videos reveal the abhorrent underbelly that belies PPFA marketing hype. See www.ExposePlannedParenthood.net for more information.

Not only would shutting down the government get the attention of the American people, it would focus all eyes on the gross negligence, incompetency and refusal of the President and his Democratic comrades to effectively deal with the problem of the growing and bloated national deficit and national debt. The GOP in the House proposed and the GOP in the Senate voted for a very modest, and I might add an altogether insufficient, budget reduction proposal for the FY 2011 budget. The Democrats  in the Senate countered with a paltry pittance of a spending reduction. Not to mention that the President proposed a FY2012 budget insuring continuance of the similar atrocious deficit projections as his previous record-breaking and economy-busting budgets of his first two years in office.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy “Leaving on a Government Jet Plane” Pelosi led Democrats resisted almost every cut suggested by their GOP opponents. Really, they were in such a frenzied spending spree last year that didn’t have time to approve a budget, which is the first time since Congress has been required by law to do so. Seems that they have given up their right to squawk about the specifics of the budget, which the opposition is scrambling to fix the mess they kicked down the road …

Charles M. Page, Sr. had some thoughts on the possible shut-down of our self-serving government guilty of gloating in its self-importance. He posted an article at www.TeaPartyNation.com, “Shutting Down The Government Sounds Like A Deal To Me...”He would like to see the government shut down, as would I.

 

Page makes several good points, first he says, “Now I know that they always mean "shutting down only non-essential services" whenever this subject comes up, and usually refer to "continuing to operate the military, and to payout Social Security check, etc."” It would also be important to pay the interest on our staggering debt, so that we don’t incur additional penalties, which would drive up the deficit and debt even further.

 

His second point is a question, “What services are essential for the Government to perform today?  And if it were shut down...even for a few hours, days, or weeks, what do you think might actually happen?”

That is the question we all should be asking. The U.S. Constitution answers that in Article 1, Section 8.

 

Page looks at this looming budget crisis confrontation positively, “My hope is that the (newer) Republicans in the House, because that it the only group I see potentially able to make a stand on this issue, will vote to pass no more "Continuing Resolutions to keep the Federal Government operating" when this next deadline comes due. [April 8]

“I hope

·                    that they reject flat out the notion of the "Need to raise the Debt Ceiling...."  

·                    That unused Stimulus monies are returned to the taxpayers,

·                    that the $105 Billion squirled away in ObamaCare is eliminated,

·                    that significant steps to find Fraud & Waste everywhere are actually taken and reported for once in our lifetimes,

·                    that tax law is reduced to simply "you owe X (my personal number would be 10, 20 tops....) percent of anything you make regardless if you are Joe the Plumber or GE," and

·                    that we find out what we really are getting for our money from the Federal Government?”

 

Yes, this can be a pivotal time for America. It may be the time to discover why it is costing taxpayers and future Americans yet to be born over $1.5 trillion dollars per year in additional debt to operate our out-of-control big government. We need to review every role of the present government and if it does not comport or line up with Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, serious consideration should be giving to ceasing to fund and/or continue that program or expenditure.

Can a people be free and equal?

“… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Declaration of Independence establishes the American ideal. We are beings who have been created – beings on whom the Creator bestows rights – and we cannot legitimately be separated from those rights by acts of government or of other men .

“The nature of government is to accumulate power, always at the expense of individual freedom … Within the United States, a soft revolution of the left against the Constitution has been underway for 80 years. Its goal is the equality of outcomes. Is means is the accumulation of power through the growth of government. (The great irony of liberalism is that, when government becomes all-powerful, all power is concentrated in the hands of those who run the government … which is the least equal outcome of all.)

--- Bart Fleming, “Is it liberty and equality, or liberty VERSUS equality?” Tea Party Review, March 2011, Vol. 1, No. 1

Amazingly, the first and preeminent right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence is LIFE. In 1973, 38 years ago, this right to life was willfully and wrongly “revoked” by the government, the so-called Supreme Court. The liberty, the freedom of the unborn, the most vulnerable in society was stolen. All of our remaining rights stem from that most vital right of all. ObamaCare is not healthcare reform, it is healthcare control! It is a symptom of what the author above says is its unquenchable thirst for more power.

One by one big government is stripping us from our freedoms in the name of equal outcomes for all. This is socialist utopian fantasy. Government does not determine our rights, God does. The Left is at war with God. Under “Dear Leader” Chairman Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama we are becoming more and more like the Soviet Union each passing day.

Budget Deficit Made With Red Chinese Ink!

Furthermore, our government is in need of extensive bariatric surgery. Now it waddles badly, barely able to hold itself up. The Chinese are enabling its feeding and its spending frenzy. It needs to be knocked down to size several notches. We need to stop feeding this bloated monster. The past 4+ years it has acted like a bloodsucking leech that has attached itself to American taxpayers and it won’t let go.  

Essentially, the government has far too much power. It is doing and meddling in affairs it has no business getting into such as healthcare or education.

We need to put our federal and state governments on a strict diet. We need major spending cuts. Not the namby pamby nicks that the President or even the House have proposed. We need to get serious. I for one am for shutting down the government until we can get serious about fiscal responsibility.

There are two examples of government expenditures that can be trimmed right off hand that would save us a bundle of money. One is the complete elimination of the nearly worthless, even destructive U.S. Department of Education. The other is the equally useless Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Yes, ket’s get serious and put the government on a starvation diet, a real budget balancing diet, and sooner rather than later! Let’s start now in the current Continuing Resolution for 2011.

Draw a line in the sand. Say “No” to the raising the debt ceiling. Since the President has audaciously sent a budget containing a $1 ½ trillion deficit, let’s adopt a new slogan. “Trim a trillion here and there, until we are debt-free.”

$ TRIM A TRILLION OR TWO $ 

Democrats need a reality check

Hat tip goes to freshman Congressman Jim Renacci (R-OH-16) who just tweeted a link to this YouTube video:

Apparently the Democrats are ignoring the facts or they are living in an alternate universe somewhere in Absurdistan. 

FY2011 Showdown: Who’s agenda will prevail, the Radical Left or the Teahadists?

The Left is demonstrably expert in name calling. Its lastest concoction is the clever ‘Teahadists,’ a term the DailyKos used to describe the Republican base. Here is how Jed Lewinson of the DailyKos opened his recent article, “With their spending bill D.O.A., can House Republicans avoid federal shutdown?”today:

“Over the weekend, House Republicans bowed to pressure from their teahadist base by passing a spending bill that would cut $61.5 billion from the federal budget through the final seven months of this fiscal year. But even before the bill passed, Republicans were acknowledging that it was dead on arrival…”

I for one hope Congressional Republicans show some courage and listen to their teahadist base and stand firm. Maybe government should shutdown at least until a more balanced budget is hammered out. 

The Continuing Resolution: So What Really Is Draconian?

I have been watching the House Proceedings on C-Span regarding the Continuing Resolution (CR). Part of the Democratic talking points is the use of “draconian” when referring to many of the proposed spending cuts put forth by the Republicans. A person on a Cleveland.com Political Forum provided a link to an excellent article, which I quote from below, and which redirects the application of that the term “draconian” to where it belongs …

“The only genuinely "draconian" policy in Washington is the multi-trillion-dollar annual deficits being run up that constitute a death sentence on our children's and grandchildren's prosperity and liberty.” 

--- Tony Blankley, “It’s the Deficits That Are Draconian, Not Their Cuts,” 

Obama the Magician

Trimming the fat from the Federal budget

Hal Gershowitz and Stephen Porter in an important BigGovernment.com article, “Obama to Debt and Deficit Reduction Commission: So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You,” suggest several debt and deficit reducing measures of their own.

 

PRESIDENT NOT SERIOUS ABOUT DEFICIT REDUCTION

 

Gershowitz and Porter observe that in his State of the Union address “As an answer to the budget crisis, the President’s call for a freeze in spending was less than weak; it amounts to little more than camouflage to mislead the electorate into believing that his Administration is serious about controlling spending.”

 

SOLUTIONS?

 

The President and the Congress need to begin to address the debt and the deficit now.

 

However, it appears that it will be up to Congress, because the President, according to Gershowitz and Porter, “…(C)learly signaled (in his SOTU address) that reducing spending will not be part of his agenda (freezing costs isn’t reducing spending) nor will his agenda include very much of the Debt Reduction Commission’s recommendations regarding tax reform…quite the contrary…

 

The authors also note that the President is ignoring his Debt Reduction Commission’s key recommendation which included “… (A) simplification of the tax code, reductions in tax rates for all tax payers, treating capital gains and dividend income as ordinary income, and the elimination of itemized deductions and many sacred-cow subsidies, credits and other corporate tax incentives … The … Commission also recommended establishing firm ratios of allowable Debt to GDP and Taxes to GDP, a sensible way of keeping America from spending and taxing itself into European-type economic extremis.  Not a word from the President, other than a sentence about lowering tax rates for business, on any of these key recommendations, all of which would be anathema to his far left base.”

 

 

SOCIAL SECURITY/MEDICARE, THE BIGGIES

 

The authors of the article cited above state, “… (F)uture Social Security benefits and Medicare funding will have to be addressed.  Medicare premiums will have to be substantially increased or Medicare benefits will have to be substantially reduced.” We have kicked this can down far too long. It is time to cut the benefits and increase the premiums and come up with private-based retirement alternatives for younger people.

 

ZERO-BASED BUDGETING

 

Gershowitz and Porter wrote, “Perhaps it’s time to dust off old zero-based budgeting plans and reconsider a realistic, but modified approach to zero-based budgeting.  Under a zero-based budgeting regime (quite common in the private sector) every agency and department would have to build its budget from a zero base each year, eliminating (or reducing) every unproductive, inefficient or duplicative expenditure.  A government zero-based budgeting process would, admittedly, be very time consuming, labor intensive and cumbersome.  However, a modified zero-based budgeting process just might work.  Under a modified zero-based budget plan, managers would be charged with the responsibility of on-going evaluation of their agency or department’s productivity and identifying those operations that can be reduced or eliminated. Perhaps every three years or five years, every agency’s budget would be adjusted consistent with these rolling assessments of productivity.”

Zero-Based Budgeting is a wise idea. I wrote about this earlier this year in an article, “How about ‘taxing’ government? Where’s the Budget?”

How about ‘taxing’ government? Where’s the Budget?

Drastic times call for drastic measures. Let’s get on with some serious government reduction! I have two ideas that could both be used by Congress to mandate reduction in the size and cost of government.

‘DEFICIT TAX’

The first idea is to establish and charge a ‘Deficit Tax’ on all of the spending of all departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

I heard what, at first, sounds like a wacky idea this afternoon on XM-Serius Patriot Radio. The host suggested that all agencies of the federal government be ‘taxed’ at a rate similar to what taxes are being charged to corporations on all of its current spending allocations. Let’s play with that idea a while.

Hypothetically, let’s use 33 1/3 % as a ‘Deficit Tax’ rate for every department and every agency of the federal government. This ‘tax’ would be imposed on the current budget allocation made to each department under the most recent approved budget. For example, say the overall budget for the U.S. Department of Education was $60 Billion dollars. Starting immediately, that department would be ‘taxed’ $20 Billion dollars [ .333 x $60 Billion = $20 Billion ]. The $20 Billion would be mandated to be applied to reduce the federal deficit. The U.S. Department of Education would then be required to reorder and restructure its operation to operate with the remaining allocation of $40 Billion dollars. This ‘Deficit Tax’ would remain in place until the federal deficit was eliminated. This would give each director and manager an incentive to priorities programs and eliminate waste or duplication.

Personally, I see no need for the Department of Education at all and its entire $60 Billion allocation could be used to reduce the debt and deficit. Like families and businesses in general the bloated government would now need to tighten its expansive belt and cut to bare bones necessities like everyone else.

I see no sacred cows. If we applied this procedure across the board government would be reduced 1/3!  

ZERO-BASED BUDGETING

The second idea would be to adopt Zero-Based Budgeting and require every Department and agency of the Federal Government to begin to phase in the use of Zero-Based Budgeting in their year to year planning.

Here is one definition of Zero-Based Budgeting:

“The budgeting process is an essential component of management control systems and has been an effective system by which management can successfully plan, coordinate, and control. The process involves the creation and implementation of the broad objectives of an organization [ such as reducing the federal debt & deficit, eliminating obsolete, ineffective programs, identifying and eliminating redundancy and waste ]  the detailed objectives, and a short-term and long-term financial plan. The philosophy and procedures used to implement zero-base budgeting in industry and government settings are quite similar, only slightly differing with the mechanics to fit the specific needs of each organization.  

“The basic process of zero-based budgeting is to justify budget requests every budgeting cycle, regardless of prior period budgets. The following sections address the specifics including the history, implementation, drawbacks and solutions, and behavioral impacts of zero-based budgeting.”

In other words, every time a budget is submitted, justification must be made for every program and expenditure. It would force each department director or manager to justify the reason for his or her department’s existence and justify each of the programs of the department or agency.


CONCLUSION

I think that the combination of these two ideas would one, curtail the obscene spending, and two, would force directors and managers to really look hard at why their department exists. Furthermore, if any department, such as EPA or Energy or Education cannot substantiate a constitutional reason for their existence then those Departments or Agencies must be eliminated. Overall, I would like to see the trend turn from government expansion to government contraction and/or elimination.

The 111^th Congress failed to submit a budget last October as required by law. One of the first priorities of the new Congress would be to develop a budget. The two ideas presented in this article could be incorporated into the process if the members of Congress are serious about their promises to cut the deficit. I don’t really think they are, but I hope they prove me wrong.

Politics, a definition

Hat tip to the Continuing Collapse email newsletter about our destructive education system for this great quote.

Quote/Unquote

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies." --- Groucho Marx

Isn't that essentially what TARP, the Bailouts, Cash for Clunkers, the Simulus Bill, the bloated Federal Budget, Amnesty, Cap and Trade, and ObamaCare Healthcare 'Reform' are all about - the politics and policies of socialism?

Budget Woes

Ron Paul is predicting that the real federal budget deficit for this year will be over 2 trillion, not the 1.1 or 1.2 trillion being predicted by the Democrats/Obama administration. RP opposed H Res 282, a bill that would require taxpayers to hand over $100 billion to Egypt and Israel in exchange for them signing a peace treaty with each other.

He is also saying that Obama's military spending for this year is a 9% increase over last year. To fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we borrowed money from countries that are worse like China and and Iran. The Chinese are now angry at us because the money (100s of billions of dollars) that we owe them is losing its value because we are "printing" the money is pay for this budget. He warns that if this continues, the Federal Government will eventually default on its loans.

$top the bailout$

I received an email today from Americans for Limited Government. If you think, as I do, that what President Barry Soetoro (a/k/a Barack Obama) is doing, through the stimulus and bailout handouts, is the wrong thing, and if you think, as I do , that by trying to spend taxpayers money and indenture our children with an even more expansive deficit, then please sign the following petition.

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However, if you want to sit back and watch this inexperienced, two-bit political hack from Chicago continue to destroy this nation, then turn off your computer and turn your TV back on and enjoy American Idol or As the World Turns or Lost. . .

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Petition to the
111th Congress of the United States

Whereas, the United States Congress has otherwise appropriated, committed, borrowed, and printed some $10 trillion throughout 2008 and into 2009 over and above the regular budget, and

Whereas the bulk of these funds have been used to “bailout” or otherwise subsidize banks, financial firms, delinquent homeowners, and other institutions, and

Whereas, all of this record-setting expenditure has been borrowed funds not otherwise available to the Treasury of the United States, and

Where, the conditions leading to the current financial crisis were created by government and are a direct result of 15 years of flawed fiscal, monetary and social policy,

Now therefore, we the undersigned citizens of the United States do hereby call on Congress to take the following immediate actions:

1. Insist that all funds expended or committed by any agency or authorized agent of the United States be subject to a public vote of the elected Congress.

2. Undertake an immediate investigation of exactly how all funds have been spent, to whom the Federal Reserve has issued loans and the terms of such loans, and otherwise make the entire process of the financial bailout completely transparent.

3. Block all moves by the Obama Administration to hand homeowners of mortgages in default or near default a reduction in principle of the amount of the mortgage.

4. Bring an immediate end to the bailout and subsidies for firms and individuals who have made bad decisions and allow market forces to find the appropriate price level of housing and securities to enable the market to again function.


Click here to sign the petition!

Newbie President Reaches Dubious Milestone

“President (Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack) Obama describes the economic stimulus bill as, ‘a major milestone.’

“Sure, a milestone, he’s only been in office less than a month and already he’s doubled our national debt.”

- - - NewsBusted, Episode 2/18/09


NewsBusters is a conservative news and comedy website. Their newest NewBusted episode includes the excerpt above.

See right panel of this blog and click on the picture to watch this 2-3 minute comedy YouTube video.

Stimulus: Nothing for Something

Demise of America #6

Do you remember that old adage, "You can't get something for nothing?" Well the Pelosi-Reid-Soetoro (a/k/a Obama) pork 'n patronage package (stimulus bill) can be described as, "You can get nothing for something." That in a nutshell is the economic stimulus package. It does little or nothing to solve the economic downturn and it is extremely expensive. It actually is generational thievery or fiscal child abuse because that something is the massive and necessary debt being laid on generations to come.

Friend of this blog, T.D., sends another very apt quote (below) that easily could be written for what the Democrats and the three horribly misguided crazed RINO Senators did to America last week - passing the deceitfully named "The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009." It should more appropriately be called "The American Recession-Expanding and Deficit-Building Act of 2009."

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

“When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 to 2005 ~~

Passage of Flatulent Stimulus Brings Reaction

Here are two reactions to the passage of the so-called stimulus bill.

“Let it be said loud and clear: (President Barry Soetoro a/k/a) Barack Obama's so-called stimulus bill, feverishly embraced by his sticky-fingered Democratic minions in the House and Senate (and three craven Republican senators), will not do a single thing to revive our ailing economy. Nothing. . . .” -- - - Michael Reagan, in his article "Requiem for a Republic," February 14, 2009

"The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending.” . - - - House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio as he dumped a copy of the 1,071-page bill to the floor in a gesture of contempt.

Congressman Paul Says It All . . . .

In the YouTube video below, Congressman Ron Paul speaks outside the Capitol Building on legislative process and the passage of the atrocious, dangerous, catastrophic Stimulus (a/k/a Big Government Expansion and Spending) bill:





Additional Comments:

Republicans have veered away from fiscal conservatism. The present President Soetoro (a/k/a Obama) administration is the result of the GOP's refusal to stick to their principles. President Bush and the GOP became like the Democrats, free spenders. That is the primary reason that we are in the shape we are in . . .

The Republicans must wake up as they did in the 90's and be conservatives. Dr. Ron Paul and other real fiscal conservatives want to curb government spending, reduce taxes, reduce the deficit and allow free enterprise to work.

Unfortunately when the GOP was in power began to act like the Liberals currently in power. That is the bottom line problem - abandonment of fiscal conservative principles . . .

Economic Stimulus Bill = Fiscal Child Abuse

Yes, the Democratic Party is embodied and emblazoned today by the likes of President Barry Soetoro (a/k/a Barack Obama) San Francisco Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry "Surrender" Reid. They all stand for the wholesale abuse or slaughter of pre-born children through the murderous practice of abortion. They claim that every woman has the right to murder her child for any reason. This contradicts every Americans' God-given right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Adding to this despicable platform the pork-ridden, patronage-promoting and pandering economic stimulus bill which amounts to fiscal abuse of today's children. They have to pay for the Democrats' plan to socialize America. In actuality, they are bankrupting America and stiffing our children with the bill.

What they are doing physically and fiscally to America's present and future children is immoral and must be stopped.

The Stimulus Bare Facts

Cartoon by Glenn McCoy found on Townhall.com on 1/30/09

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Cartoon by Lisa Benson as found on Townhall.com on 1/30/09

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Cartoon by Glenn McCoy found on Townhall.com 2/6/09
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Cartoon by Nate Beeler as found at Townhall.com on 2/9/09

Mr. President: Who or What ‘Catastrophe'?

Cartoon by Michael Ramirez as found on Townhall.com 1/29/09

Shortly after I stopped listening to a portion of President Barry Soetoro’s (a/k/a Barack Obama) first press conference last night, I saw the headline, “Obama says stimulus vital to avoid 'catastrophe' (AP)” on Yahoo. My immediate thought was, ‘We have recognized the catastrophe, and sir, you are the catastrophe with this outrageous so-called stimulus proposition that you and your comrades, are trying to shove down our throats.

The wasteful, pork and political payoff bill is plain ludicrous. Only a smaller portion (maybe 1/3?) of the bill will attempt to do what you argue the entire bill will do - create jobs or build America’s infrastructure. A much greater portion 2/3 or more) rewards and subsidizes your Democratic political allies and those groups targeted to help maintain Democratic power and foster government dependency beyond 2010 and 2012. Frankly, that is what it really is.

You lie and deceive America when you say there is no “pork” in this bill. Do you think all Americans are fools? We don’t all worship you, sir. In fact, a large portion actually opposes most, if not all, of your political ideology.

Despite what you think your election meant, it did not mean that all or even the majority of America are behind you. You did not receive a mandate to implement socialism carte blanche. No, you merely won an election on your empty promises of “change,” “hope,” and “yes we can.” Remember half the people voted against you. Another portion stayed home and didn’t vote at all. Many of us will not stand aside and let you replace our way of life with Marxism, which apparently you intend to do. I vehemently disagree with you that doing nothing is not an option. It is. It will save us and our children more than a trillion dollars!

We do not need to rush to judgment. We need to take deliberate, well thought out incremental measures focused primarily on tax cuts, reduced spending, reduced regulations. That is the jump start that our economy needs. We don’t need more funding to combat sexual transmitted diseases, funding the arts, welfare for illegal aliens, etc.