Showing posts with label Stimulus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stimulus. Show all posts

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Such a Time as This





Above is a video of a Bible study recorded by the adult minister at my church.  I think it is a good compliment to what I have to say.

You may have heard that a few weeks ago that the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates to almost zero.  This was so that the Federal Government could borrow money at lower interest to pay for an anticipated stimulus package to give everybody $1200 and to bail out businesses.  Now they’re talking about another round of stimulus, which will mean more borrowing and more National debt.  The Fed does not have any money, they just create it out of nothing when they loan it.  The result will be that the value of the dollar will go down and prices will go up.  The President, the Congress, and the Fed can create dollars out of thin air, but they can’t create wealth and prosperity.

Many people are buying non-perishable items in large quantities because of this.  Others are doing it out fear that the items (like toilet paper) will become unavailable. Others are buying precious metals or stocks because they are cheaper at the moment and they anticipate that their resale value in dollars will be higher as a result of the inevitable inflation.  These investors are expecting that the economy will recover, but if it doesn’t, then it won’t be good investment.  How do they know that COVID-19 won’t keep coming back year after year like flu?  Maybe there will be a long-term effective vaccine.  Maybe there will not be one.  In that case, food, medicines and necessities will be of great value, but gold, stocks, and dollars will be of no use.  Revelation 18:17 (ESV) says, “For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste."

From a selfish, atheistic point of view, the best thing for you to do is buy non-perishable necessities as you can for yourself while the price is still low.  But if God exists, if He is in control of everything, and if there is a Day of Judgment coming, then your paradigm should be much different.   That being the case, you should be thinking about using your resources as wisely as you can, but not primarily for your own personal preservation, but for the good of your community and especially in regards to saving their eternal souls through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Just What Did the Obama 'Stimulus' Stimulate?



“There are now over one-hundred (100) criminal probes investigating the money doled out under the 2009 ‘stimulus.’

“Or, as the ‘stimulus’ is also called, the List of Obama’s Campaign Donors!”


Episode 11/11/2011


NewsBusted is a conservative comedy webcast about the news of the day, uploaded every Tuesday and every Friday. Their two lastest episodes includs the excerpts above.

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

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Mr. President, I think we’ll pass on it. --- The American People

Like a deranged madman, or mad hatter, or like the fellow on that most annoying repetitive radio or TV commercial, our beloved President last week raced before a joint session of Congress. Then this past week started schlepping from state to state. Starting in Virginia and Ohio, then on to other states he scurried trying to elicit buyers for his miraculous mineral spirits. He has been attempting to convince us of the inconvincible and inconceivable with his now familiar and equally worrisome pitch or mantra, “Pass this Bill.”

Previously, the Obama regime passed the dangerous health care “reform” bill, or ObamaCare, which itself was ramrodded through Congress the night before Christmas. Now, just like the health care and finance 'reform' bills  before, the American people don’t want to buy his transparent “Save Obama’s Job” Act. Never mind, that it calls for yet another wasteful, useless “stimulus,” or expenditure of precious and increasing rare Taxpayer dollars.
What is this all about, really?  The president’s personal slush fund is running low from the last stimulus! He uses this fund to feed the insatiable appetite of the union bosses, of favored crony capitalists, and of his faithful campaign contribution bundlers.  In other words, he needs to reload, using a euphemism, whose use is banned for the Right, but not the Left.

If this President's intent is the further destroy our economy, or if it just the result of failed policies put forth by an inept and inexperience administration, the result is the same. We must do all we can to make sure the current President and the vast majority of the current Congress is purged in the upcoming elections mainly in May and in November of 2012

Monday, December 20, 2010

New year, new Congress, new resolution: Repeal Obamacare!



The 111th Congress just finished repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT).' 


Now on January 3rd, 2011 the 112th Congress must begin to immediately and to aggressively work to undue the damage done by the current radical Democrat-led Lame Duck Congress such as: Obamacare, the Stimulus, the Bailouts, Financial 'Reform,' and permitting homosexuals to be open with their behavior in the military.


If the country can survive Barry Soetoro alias Barack Obama's destructive plans until 2012 and we elect principled conservatives for President and Congress in November 2012, then we have a chance at long-term survival and an opportunity to restore America ...

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Late Night Takes – A Transparent Government

Late Night Humor


The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

·     Because of a printing error, a billion new $100 bills have to be destroyed. They’re going to burn $100 billion dollars just like they did with the last stimulus program.


·     President (Barry Soetoro aka Barack) Obama’s pledge to have the most transparent administration in history has come true. Thanks to WikiLeaks.

These jokes are courtesy of NewsMax.com (Hat Tip!), which periodically sends out an email compilation of late night jokes, few of which are worth repeating … however, these two were the exception in the latest batch.

Monday, November 01, 2010

How did Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy (D-15) vote?

She voted wrong nearly every time.

Check out the voter guide of the League of Women Voters:


Send her home on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.

November is Here!

I remember her sign being prominently displayed on the lawn of an abortion clinic in Columbus, Ohio. Time for her to go ...

How did Congresswoman Betty Sutton (D-13) vote?

She voted wrong nearly every time.

Check out the voter guide of the League of Women Voters:


Retire her on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.

November is Here!

How did Congressman John Boccieri (D-16) vote?

He voted wrong nearly every time.

Check out the voter guide of the League of Women Voters:


Wave bye bye to him on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.

How did Congressman Steve Driehaus (D-01) vote?

He voted wrong nearly every time.

Check out the voter guide of the League of Women Voters:


Pink slip him on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.

How did Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-10) vote?

He voted wrong nearly every time.

Check out the voter guide of the League of Women Voters:


Oust him on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.

How did Ohio Congressman Zach Space (OH-18) vote?


He voted wrong nearly every time.

Check out the voter guide of the League of Women Voters:


Can him on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.

Here is a so-called Blue-Dog Democrat who turned into a whimpering pup and immediately sat when Madame Pelosi told him to "Sit!"

Friday, September 03, 2010

61 Days ‘til Statism on Trial


Remember in November


Two months until the Day of Reckoning. Two months until the Ultimate Tea Party! 61 days until the Mid-Term Report Card is given for the controversial and increasingly unpopular President and his Democrat cronies in Congress.


Was the election of the controversial and increasingly President a mirage or a mandate? The answer will come on Tuesday November 2, 2010, when hopefully many conservatives will rescue this nation from the socialist policies of the current administration and Congress.


Remember the extreme Statist, socialist, liberal policies and legislation pushed through Congress.


Remember the all the passed Congressional PORK in November ...


Remember the Stimulus Bill with nearly $1 Trillion in wasted taxpayer dollars causing future generations a tremendous needless debt burden


Remember the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was passed by the Democratic controlled House of Representatives.


Remember in November


Fire Congress ...

Monday, August 16, 2010

New $26 Mil Stimulus Bailout Bill for Teachers called ‘Cash for Flunkers’

I received this item from Newsmax.com in an email, "House Minority Leader John Boehner has suggested several names for the new stimulus bill Democrats rammed through Congress last week none of them complimentary.”
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This completely unnecessary, foolhardy, and highly charged Pelosi promised political payoff (the latest so-called stimulus bill) was geared primarily to buy or save votes of thousands of teachers and state employees. The bill was forced through the House so quickly that it didn’t even have a name. But CNSNews reported that Republicans said the bill is an election-year gift to teachers and public workers unions.

Newsmax.com also quoted House Minority Leader Boehner as saying about the newest bailout legislation, “A nameless bill for a hopeless cause is a fitting metaphor for a Democratic Congress that refuses to listen to the American people and abandon its job-killing agenda.”

He offered a few priceless specific suggestions. Here are some. I underscored my favorites.


· Save Our “Stimulus” (SOS) Act


· “Recovery Summer” Bailout Act (Cash for Flunkers)


· Delivering Unions a Major Boost (DUMB) Act


· Helping Election Expenditures, Hurting American Workers (HEEHAW) Act


· Democracy Is Strengthened by Clearly Leveraging and Optimizing Special-Interests' Effectiveness (DISCLOSE) Act


· Rescuing Incumbent Democrats Is Costly (RIDIC) Act


· Summertime Cash for Union Bosses Instead of Spending Cuts for Taxpayers Act


· Frivolous Act of Ineffective Largesse (FAIL) Act


· Naming These Things Hasn't Gotten Us Anywhere, So Why Bother Act


Another bill title might be, "Step-Daughter of Stimulus Act," in acknowledgement to harried and hurried Speaker Pelosi's draconian measure.

November cannot come soon enough. We have to stop the bleeding by these persons with their destructive socialist agenda, which is wrecking and reeking havoc on the nation and its economy.

Remember in November – remember all the stimulus and bailout bills …

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Anti-Economic Stimulus Sermon

Genesis 47:13-27 
ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THIS IS WOW !!!!!
RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE - STIMULUS SERMON 
Genesis 47:13-27
I would love to give the Pastor of this 
predominantly black church in  Virginia a hug and a high five. This guy is obviously a leader. 
Perhaps we should each decide who our real leader is.....It is amazing to see that very little has changed in 4,000 years.

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Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get intoGod's Word.  Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will to the 47th chapter of Genesis, we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and gothrough verse 27. 
Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? .....(reading)... 
Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray.  So we see that economic hard times fell upon  Egypt , and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them.  And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built.  So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain.  And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again. 
So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock -their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey -to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. 
But the famine wasn't over, was it?  So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.  Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land?  Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh."  So theysurrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain. 
What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters? 
That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery?  Yes.. That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master? 
Yes. 
But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters!  Thus  Israel settled in the  land of  Egypt , in the  land of  Goshen .  And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly."  God provided for His people, just as He always has!  They didn't end up giving all their possessions to government, no, it says they gained possessions!  But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one. 
We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to "share the wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us.  It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind.  And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders. 
What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same.  And a lot of people like to call Mr.Obama a "Messiah," don't they?  Is he a Messiah?  A savior?  Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"? 
Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH!  No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh. Bow with me in prayer, if you will... 
Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone.  We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.." 
And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation.  We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters.  Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government. 
In God We Trust... 

Monday, April 19, 2010

Bachmann: Ours is a 'Gangster Government!'

Hat tip to tweeter BradMD who linked in his post to the RightScoop video below. Dr. Brad says, “"Bachmann belts out another great speech as she attacks the (Soetoro a/k/a) Obama Administration - ‘gangster government.’" That's after she lays out a case of wrongful actions by the government including:
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* Bailing out the banks
* Baling out AIG
* Bailing out Freddie & Fannie
* Bailing out GM & Chrysler
* Stimulus bill
* Healthcare 'reform' with 1ts 14 new taxes
* Moving toward taking control of the Financial Industy
* Cap & Trade with an eye on taking over the Energy Industry
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She is right in labeling this regime in Washington as a gangster - Chicago style - government ...

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Domestically, Soetoro/Obama is even worse than Carter, says Mark Levin

Hat tip to NewsBusters.com, they posted an article highlighting some of the thoughts of conservative radio talk show host, best-selling author and attorney, Mark Levin. Here is part of his comments as quoted in the NewsBusters article, “Mark Levin: Obama 'Biggest Disaster in Modern American History'”:

"This is a very vicious recession and we would have been out of by now if he wasn't smothering the private sector, threatening to tax them, nationalizing major industries, government doesn't spread wealth, it destroys wealth and it spreads misery. Now we've had trillions of dollars spent in the last 13-14 months...trillions...following this failed ideology. We still have
· almost 10 percent unemployment,
· still foreclosures,
· soon the fed is going to back off pumping money into the housing market,
· interest rates are going to go up . . .

"This philosophy that Obama embraces has failed whenever it's tried, wherever it's tried. And you notice they always try to say the same thing - ‘we haven't gone far enough,' ‘we need more money,' ‘we need more government,' and then they pick enemies - this industry, that industry - it's because they're failures. And this is how they continue to push their propaganda. We weren't sliding into a great Depression, so now he's rewriting history."

Read more
here.

I concur with Mark Levin's analysis. Socialism or Marxism has not anywhere, yet, the Soetoro aka Obama administation is hell-bent on implementing that horrid and sordid philosophy. More than 60% of the American people do not want government-run healthcare, yet the President, Pelosi, and Reid march ahead following the steps of Lenin, Stalin and Mao like good comrades in harm . . .
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The President claims that had he and Congress not pursued the gigantic slush fund, also referred to as the stimulus package, the economy would have been worse. I disagree. All the stimulus bull did was prolong the deep cuts states must face and must make to curb loss of revenue and out-of-control spending. The Stimulus protected government union jobs, that's all. We would have been less in debt than we are today if we did not waste nearly a Trillion dollars on an entirely program meant to insure that the Democratic Party stays in power . . .
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The President and Congress are even thinking of passing another Stimulus bill. What was that famous definition of insanity? . . . Doing the same failed thing over and over again expecting different results.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

A Raquiem for the Stimulus Bill

I came across an interesting Twitter retweet which included a reference to this article, “Happy Anniversary, Stimulus Package! Boondoggle: Great NRSC Ad” and the embedded video below.



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Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch runs a regular feature in its newspaper identifying an important issue to the local community and asking the vote of the readers on that issue along with any comments they may have. Occasionally I will respond and comment on the issue raised, as I did in regard to today's (Wednesday's) topic.


The Hot Issue, Wednesday, February 17, 2010:

Do you think the stimulus package has helped Ohio?

My Response:

No, in the long run Ohio is not helped by the pork-laden stimulus bill. We should not be singing its praises. We should be crying a dirge!

Actually, the stimulus package was one big slush fund used by the Democratic controlled Congress and President. It has only helped states like Ohio in propping up their budgets especially in retaining union members such teachers, police, fire, city workers etc In other words, those voters to whom the Democratic Party is beholden and dependent on as a base.

All Ohio or any state has done is buying a little time, avoiding the inevitable day of reckoning. Layoffs and other belt tightening must be done. Wasteful and excessive spending must stop!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Ohio Taxed to the Max Rally, Saturday 1/30/10, Columbus, Ohio - Part 3

Government asked to Stop Treating Ohio Taxpayers Like an ATM!

Rob Portman was spoke at the ATM Rally in Columbus yesterday (Saturday). The following is a partial transcript continuation of a portion of the speech he presented at the rally. See the previous postings here and here. Portman is one of the Republican candidates running to fill Senator George Voinovich's seat in the U.S. Senate. What he said Saturday was very conservative fiscally. However, I am not sure where he stands on the social issues.

Portman discusses several tax-related issues and current government policies, which adversely affect the economy in Ohio and in America today.

"Cap and Trade . . . our manufacturers getting hit because of the new regulations on emissions. This is not the way to get our economy on track!

"It is also about Card Check . . . it takes away the ability to have a secret ballot if you are a union member . . . I talked to one union steward in Columbus on a factory tour and he didn't want to lose the secret ballot, nor do most union members.

"These are the things that if you are a small business person, or if you are a risk-taker, or just thinking about starting something . . . you are discouraged right now.

"That is why when I heard the President talk the other night, I was delighted when the President was thinking about getting back to jobs and the economy . . . but his actual policies have just the opposite affect. They're discouraging job growth. In fact, I would argue that the stimulus package, which was passed a year ago, has not helped create jobs but has made it more difficult to create jobs. Why? Because we are growing PUBLIC sector jobs and we are losing PRIVATE sector jobs.

"It is going to result in

· increasing interest rates,
· put more pressure on inflation,
· it lowers the value of the dollar,
· it also puts us in a position that we are passing along to our kinds & grandkids an immoral deficit and debt that they will have to deal with.

"This is just not the American way! . . ."

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Is this America's Exit Strategy?

Does America get off here?


If the radical liberal socialistic President and current Congress as constituted have their way the end of the road, our only exit will be fiscal, physical and spiritual collapse. The wild and reckless spending, which started during the Bush years, and sped up at a light-year frenzied pace by comparison under the Soetoro a/k/a Obama regime will eventually and inevitably lead to our demise as a sovereign and free nation.
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Cap and Trade, the so-called economic Stimulus bills, the Bailouts, allowing bizarre amounts of Earmarks, debt-increasing Federal budget, the healthcare 'reform' scheme, these are all monstrous resource wasters and debt and deficit builders. They are unwise, foolish, destructive policies born out of a desire on the part of the Left to destroy the America of our Founders. These leftist desire to merge America into some kind of global utopia where the elite will rule and 'guide' the mob.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

SeniorCare under Obama-Pelosi-Reid Healthcare

Hat tip to T.D. for sending the following information letting us in on President Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's future Social Security and healthcare plans for our senior citizens.

Social Security

For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment). In fact, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation predicts there may not be any COLA for the next three years. However, the per person monthly Medicare insurance premium will be increased from the 2009 premium of $96.40 to $104.20 in 2010 and to $120.20 for the year 2011.

TAKE ACTION

All American seniors need to be reminded not to vote for the incumbent senators and congressmen in the 2010 and the 2012 elections. This means that any of the 435 Representatives and the 36 Senators who voted for any of the major economy-killing bills such as the Stimulus, TARP, Cap and Trade or Government-Run Healthcare should be fired by voters next year. The following list is from a Wikipedia entry.

2.1 Retiring Democratic Senators

2.1.1 Roland Burris of Illinois
2.1.2 Ted Kaufman of Delaware

2.2 Retiring Republican Senators

2.2.1 Kit Bond of Missouri
2.2.2 Sam Brownback of Kansas
2.2.3 Jim Bunning of Kentucky
2.2.4 Judd Gregg of New Hampshire
2.2.5 George LeMieux of Florida
2.2.6 George Voinovich of Ohio

2.3 Democratic incumbents

2.3.1 Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas
2.3.2 Barbara Boxer of California
2.3.3 Michael Bennet of Colorado
2.3.4 Christopher Dodd of Connecticut
2.3.5 Daniel Inouye of Hawaii
2.3.6 Evan Bayh of Indiana
2.3.7 Barbara Mikulski of Maryland
2.3.8 Harry Reid of Nevada
2.3.9 Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
2.3.10 Chuck Schumer of New York
2.3.11 Byron Dorgan of North Dakota
2.3.12 Ron Wyden of Oregon
2.3.13 Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania
2.3.14 Patrick Leahy of Vermont
2.3.15 Patty Murray of Washington
2.3.16 Russ Feingold of Wisconsin

2.4 Republican incumbents

2.4.1 Richard Shelby of Alabama
2.4.2 Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
2.4.3 John McCain of Arizona
2.4.4 Johnny Isakson of Georgia
2.4.5 Mike Crapo of Idaho
2.4.6 Chuck Grassley of Iowa
2.4.7 David Vitter of Louisiana
2.4.8 Richard Burr of North Carolina
2.4.9 Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
2.4.10 Jim DeMint of South Carolina
2.4.11 John Thune of South Dakota
2.4.12 Bob Bennett of Utah