Post by Rob W. Case on Feb 10, 2009 13:03:55 GMT -6
Before I begin, I want to share a little something with you. I told people that I know personally that if Barack Obama becomes president, he is going to make this country just as hum drum and as mediocre as all the rest of the countries out there. In other words, they will do all they can to stop America from being the beacon of hope and the envy of the world if they simply force us to be just as third-world as they are. Just the other night, I heard Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma make a fierce argument against the so-called “stimulus bill,” and this is what he said. “This is a skunk. This bill stinks. This bill is the biggest generational theft bill that has ever come through this body. And while that… what I mean is…. We have a standard of living in this country that’s 30 percent greater than anywhere in the world, and it’ll guarantee… this bill will guarantee your children and grandchildren will lose every bit of that edge….. Every bit of it!” Coburn also wrote a thought provoking Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, for which I am going to provide the link below.
The Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don't Need
online.wsj.com/article/SB123371083449746103.html
Now to the heart of the matter; why is this stimulus bill rotten? Because it is not for you and me, the average American workers. It is for the Democrats personal political interests, at the expense of you and me, and marketed to us in the name of trying to help the economy. After all, let’s think for a moment.
Before I continue, I want to remind you of what the economy is. Too many ignorant people are out there saying, “Obama’s going to fix the economy, Obama is going to fix the economy,” and nobody who says this knows what the hell the economy actually is. The economy is a structure which offers goods and services for a price. When people (customers) purchase those goods and services, they pay sales taxes (a certain percentage of) on the price of those goods and services. The sales taxes from those goods and services then go to the government. It is by this system, which resides within the private sector, that jobs are created. For every person who works to provide you those goods and services, their income relies on how frequently you purchase those goods and services from the place of business (like a store) offering those goods and services. The more people shop in volume, the more revenue the place of business which sells goods and services will increase. The more revenue a business that sells goods and services gets, the more jobs are created to keep up with the growing demand. The more people have jobs as a result of the growing demand, the more income they get, and the more taxpayers pay income taxes to the Federal Government. That is what the economy is. The more you buy, the more jobs are created. That is the economy explained in a nutshell.
Now, having that basic information in the back of your mind, I want to be able to get you to think for a moment. Don’t turn on the TV and get hypnotized by President Obama’s lulling rhetoric, or fall for his charismatic charm. Don’t think with your emotions or your hormones, cause that’s not thinking at all. Think with your brain. Now that you know what the economy is, can you tell me what the hell do the things I’m going to list have to do with stimulating the economy?
How does $600 Million To Buy New Cars For Government Workers (Page 89) help stimulate the economy? It doesn’t. It provides money for United Autoworkers Union jobs that will produce the cars for which the Government just bought. The use of this money is stretched out conveniently for when President Obama runs for re-election.
How does $10M spent for bike and walking trails (Page 65) help stimulate the economy? It doesn’t. It provides jobs for the union runned construction workers who have contracts with the government.
Folks, I can go all day on this.
Here is a link that will inform you further.
www.readthestimulus.org/
Summary of the Bill (H.R.1) Passed by the House of Representatives on January 28th, 2009.
PAYOFFS
To the "Green" Lobby
$600 Million To Buy New Cars For Government Workers (Page 89)
These cars would be "green" friendly cars - however very few gas pumps have the right gas to run these cars. The Federal government already spends $3.5 billion a year.
$10M for bike and walking trails (Page 65)
$200M for plug-in car stations (Page 31)
$400 million for NASA scientists to conduct climate change research (Page 22)
$800 million to clean up Superfund sites (Page 122)
$600 million for grants for diesel emission reduction (Page 119)
$650 million for "alternative energy technologies, energy efficiency enhancements and deferred maintenance at Federal facilities" (Page 119)
$1.5 billion for construction of "Green Schools" (Page 176)
To the Unions
$1 billion to the controversial COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES COPS Hiring Program
"$150 billion in new federal spending, a vast two-year investment that would more than double the Department of Education's current budget. The proposed emergency expenditures on nearly every realm of education, including school renovation, special education, Head Start and grants to needy college students" Sam Dillon, "Stimulus Plan Would Provide Flood of Aid to Education," New York Times. January 27, 2009. NOTE: Private and religious schools are excluded.
Look for the Union Label. "The stimulus bill passed by the House last night contains a controversial provision that would mostly bar foreign steel and iron from the infrastructure projects laid out by the $819 billion economic package. A Senate version, yet to be acted upon, goes further, requiring, with few exceptions, that all stimulus-funded projects use only American-made equipment and goods." Anthony Faiola, "'Buy American' Rider sparks trade Debate," Washington Post, January 29, 2009.
To the Abortion Industry (Infanticide and Eugenics)
Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) inserted in the original bill billions of dollars for family planning groups, including the abortion giant, Planned Parenthood. Pressure and public exposure from Congressional Republicans forced the Democrats to remove such funding from this bill. However the bill still provides billions in reforming the health care system and working towards nationalized health care - with little to no debate.
$2.7B in NIH grants which would be targeted to among other things embryonic stem cell experimentation. (Page 56)
Other Special Interests
$3 Billion for Prevention & Wellness Programs, Including $335 million for STD Education and Prevention -- Recent government expenditures in this area include a transgender beauty pageant in San Francisco that advertised available HIV testing and an event called "Got Love? - Flirt/Date/Score" that taught participants how "to flirt with greater finesse."
$83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don't pay income tax. SOURCE Wall Street Journal
$246 million for Hollywood SOURCE National Journal
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (Page 122)
$75 million for smoking cessation (Page 148). This contradicts the latest version of SCHIP that is funded largely by new taxes on cigarettes.
$4.19 billion open to ACORN. The Pelosi-Reid bill makes groups like ACORN eligible for a $4.19 billion pot of money for "neighborhood stabilization activities."
MISCELLANEOUS PORK
Some of the biggest winners in the package are federal agencies and Congressional relatives:
$2 Billion for national parks. "A top House Republican is demanding an investigation into whether the more than $2 billion for national parks in the House stimulus package is proper in light of the fact that the chief lobbyist for the National Parks Conservation Association is the son of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (chief author of the bill.)" Stephen Dinan and S.A. Miller, "Stimulus has plum for Lawmakers Son," Washington Times, January 29, 2009.
$54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as "ineffective" or unable to pass basic financial audits. SOURCE Wall Street Journal
$462 Million for Equipment, Construction, and Renovation of Facilities at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (Page 137)
$1.2 billion to the National Science Foundation (Page 46) "Chuck Grassley knows it when he sees it. The "it," of course, is pornography. And Grassley has seen it deep in a demurely titled section of a report from the National Science Foundation -- a report that says NSF employees have been spending significant amounts of company time on smut sites and in other explicit pursuits . . . In one particularly egregious case, the report says one NSF "senior official" was discovered to have spent as much as 20 percent of his working hours over a two-year interval 'viewing sexually explicit images and engaging in sexually explicit online 'chats' with various women.' Investigators calculated the value of the time lost at more than $58,000 -- for that employee alone." Andie Coller, "Grassley Lainches Porn Inquiry," Politico, January 29, 2009.
$150 Million for Repairs to Smithsonian Institution Facilities (Page 128)
$44 million to the Agricultural Research Service (Page 135)
$227 million for oversight of the pork barrel spending in the stimulus (Page 11)
$1 Billion for the Follow-Up to the 2010 Census (Page 49)
Discretion is given to governors and Mayors for how to spend a large chunk of the money. The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently sent Congress a $96.6 billion wish list of "shovel-ready" projects which now could be funded by the stimulus. These projects include: "$1 million for annual sewer rehabilitation in Casper, WY; $6.1 million for corporate hangars, parking lots, and a business apron at the Fayetteville, AR airport; 28 projects with the term "stadium" in them; and 117 projects mentioning landscaping and/or beautification efforts. The taxpayers should be most teed off at the 20 golf courses included in the list." SOURCE National Taxpayers Union
News of all of this pork barrel spending hit the news media, and public approval for this dropped significantly as did Obama’s national approval ratings. This caused fear and panic within the chambers of Government. In other words, the Democrats were caught red handed in numerous political paybacks amidst what we are told will be the end of the American government should this bill fail. The pressure that was placed on these guys by we the people prompted them to cut, or reduce from these items…..
What got cut from the stimulus bill
updated 5:40 p.m. EST, Sat February 7, 2009
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/stimulus.cuts/index.html
CNN obtained, from a Democratic leadership aide, a list of some programs that have been cut, either entirely or partially:
Partially cut:
• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)
• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)
• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)
• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)
Fully eliminated
• $55 million for historic preservation
• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters
• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization
• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
• $100 million for distance learning
• $98 million for school nutrition
• $50 million for aquaculture
• $2 billion for broadband
• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology
• $50 million for detention trustee
• $25 million for Marshalls Construction
• $300 million for federal prisons
• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program
• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program
• $10 million state and local law enforcement
• $50 million for NASA
• $50 million for aeronautics
• $50 million for exploration
• $50 million for Cross Agency Support
• $200 million for National Science Foundation
• $100 million for science
• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees
• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration
• $89 million General Services Administration operations
• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security
• $200 million Transportation Security Administration
• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use
• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife
• $55 million for historic preservation
• $20 million for working capital fund
• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start
• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity
• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants
• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)
• $16 billion for school construction
• $3.5 billion for higher education construction
• $1.25 billion for project based rental
• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization
• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing
• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)
Do you see how reckless they are with your money? Do you see what irresponsible nonsense we the taxpayer were about to be forced to pay for if we were not told, amidst a so-called economic crisis? I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if this was all orchestrated by the Democrats (the collapse last year and everything) for the sole purpose of restructuring everything under their own order, so that if they restructured America according to a system they could control, they couldn’t lose any more elections. I have some arguments in favor of that theory, but I am not going to go into that now. The Congressional Budget Office, which is the Gold Standard for advising lawmakers on money matters and so forth, has stated in a recent letter that this bill will do little, if anything to help the economy.
All of this massive Government spending is going to have to be paid by someone. You, your children, and your grandchildren will have to pay for this for many, many years to come. The question is how? If liberals are so against growth in the private sector (and they are), where is the money going to come from? Government can’t create anything. We create Government, but their thinking is entirely backwards. Thinking that this stimulus plan will stimulate the economy is like thinking that a heart can function without blood. If it has no blood, then the heart is useless for the function of the heart is to pump blood. Government is useless if the people are in no economic condition to support it. They are not going to sacrifice for you, yet you will be forced to sacrifice for them.
Can somebody spell CORRUPTION? And remember folks, this is only week three of the Obama administration.
The Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don't Need
online.wsj.com/article/SB123371083449746103.html
Now to the heart of the matter; why is this stimulus bill rotten? Because it is not for you and me, the average American workers. It is for the Democrats personal political interests, at the expense of you and me, and marketed to us in the name of trying to help the economy. After all, let’s think for a moment.
Before I continue, I want to remind you of what the economy is. Too many ignorant people are out there saying, “Obama’s going to fix the economy, Obama is going to fix the economy,” and nobody who says this knows what the hell the economy actually is. The economy is a structure which offers goods and services for a price. When people (customers) purchase those goods and services, they pay sales taxes (a certain percentage of) on the price of those goods and services. The sales taxes from those goods and services then go to the government. It is by this system, which resides within the private sector, that jobs are created. For every person who works to provide you those goods and services, their income relies on how frequently you purchase those goods and services from the place of business (like a store) offering those goods and services. The more people shop in volume, the more revenue the place of business which sells goods and services will increase. The more revenue a business that sells goods and services gets, the more jobs are created to keep up with the growing demand. The more people have jobs as a result of the growing demand, the more income they get, and the more taxpayers pay income taxes to the Federal Government. That is what the economy is. The more you buy, the more jobs are created. That is the economy explained in a nutshell.
Now, having that basic information in the back of your mind, I want to be able to get you to think for a moment. Don’t turn on the TV and get hypnotized by President Obama’s lulling rhetoric, or fall for his charismatic charm. Don’t think with your emotions or your hormones, cause that’s not thinking at all. Think with your brain. Now that you know what the economy is, can you tell me what the hell do the things I’m going to list have to do with stimulating the economy?
How does $600 Million To Buy New Cars For Government Workers (Page 89) help stimulate the economy? It doesn’t. It provides money for United Autoworkers Union jobs that will produce the cars for which the Government just bought. The use of this money is stretched out conveniently for when President Obama runs for re-election.
How does $10M spent for bike and walking trails (Page 65) help stimulate the economy? It doesn’t. It provides jobs for the union runned construction workers who have contracts with the government.
Folks, I can go all day on this.
Here is a link that will inform you further.
www.readthestimulus.org/
Summary of the Bill (H.R.1) Passed by the House of Representatives on January 28th, 2009.
PAYOFFS
To the "Green" Lobby
$600 Million To Buy New Cars For Government Workers (Page 89)
These cars would be "green" friendly cars - however very few gas pumps have the right gas to run these cars. The Federal government already spends $3.5 billion a year.
$10M for bike and walking trails (Page 65)
$200M for plug-in car stations (Page 31)
$400 million for NASA scientists to conduct climate change research (Page 22)
$800 million to clean up Superfund sites (Page 122)
$600 million for grants for diesel emission reduction (Page 119)
$650 million for "alternative energy technologies, energy efficiency enhancements and deferred maintenance at Federal facilities" (Page 119)
$1.5 billion for construction of "Green Schools" (Page 176)
To the Unions
$1 billion to the controversial COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES COPS Hiring Program
"$150 billion in new federal spending, a vast two-year investment that would more than double the Department of Education's current budget. The proposed emergency expenditures on nearly every realm of education, including school renovation, special education, Head Start and grants to needy college students" Sam Dillon, "Stimulus Plan Would Provide Flood of Aid to Education," New York Times. January 27, 2009. NOTE: Private and religious schools are excluded.
Look for the Union Label. "The stimulus bill passed by the House last night contains a controversial provision that would mostly bar foreign steel and iron from the infrastructure projects laid out by the $819 billion economic package. A Senate version, yet to be acted upon, goes further, requiring, with few exceptions, that all stimulus-funded projects use only American-made equipment and goods." Anthony Faiola, "'Buy American' Rider sparks trade Debate," Washington Post, January 29, 2009.
To the Abortion Industry (Infanticide and Eugenics)
Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) inserted in the original bill billions of dollars for family planning groups, including the abortion giant, Planned Parenthood. Pressure and public exposure from Congressional Republicans forced the Democrats to remove such funding from this bill. However the bill still provides billions in reforming the health care system and working towards nationalized health care - with little to no debate.
$2.7B in NIH grants which would be targeted to among other things embryonic stem cell experimentation. (Page 56)
Other Special Interests
$3 Billion for Prevention & Wellness Programs, Including $335 million for STD Education and Prevention -- Recent government expenditures in this area include a transgender beauty pageant in San Francisco that advertised available HIV testing and an event called "Got Love? - Flirt/Date/Score" that taught participants how "to flirt with greater finesse."
$83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don't pay income tax. SOURCE Wall Street Journal
$246 million for Hollywood SOURCE National Journal
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (Page 122)
$75 million for smoking cessation (Page 148). This contradicts the latest version of SCHIP that is funded largely by new taxes on cigarettes.
$4.19 billion open to ACORN. The Pelosi-Reid bill makes groups like ACORN eligible for a $4.19 billion pot of money for "neighborhood stabilization activities."
MISCELLANEOUS PORK
Some of the biggest winners in the package are federal agencies and Congressional relatives:
$2 Billion for national parks. "A top House Republican is demanding an investigation into whether the more than $2 billion for national parks in the House stimulus package is proper in light of the fact that the chief lobbyist for the National Parks Conservation Association is the son of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (chief author of the bill.)" Stephen Dinan and S.A. Miller, "Stimulus has plum for Lawmakers Son," Washington Times, January 29, 2009.
$54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as "ineffective" or unable to pass basic financial audits. SOURCE Wall Street Journal
$462 Million for Equipment, Construction, and Renovation of Facilities at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (Page 137)
$1.2 billion to the National Science Foundation (Page 46) "Chuck Grassley knows it when he sees it. The "it," of course, is pornography. And Grassley has seen it deep in a demurely titled section of a report from the National Science Foundation -- a report that says NSF employees have been spending significant amounts of company time on smut sites and in other explicit pursuits . . . In one particularly egregious case, the report says one NSF "senior official" was discovered to have spent as much as 20 percent of his working hours over a two-year interval 'viewing sexually explicit images and engaging in sexually explicit online 'chats' with various women.' Investigators calculated the value of the time lost at more than $58,000 -- for that employee alone." Andie Coller, "Grassley Lainches Porn Inquiry," Politico, January 29, 2009.
$150 Million for Repairs to Smithsonian Institution Facilities (Page 128)
$44 million to the Agricultural Research Service (Page 135)
$227 million for oversight of the pork barrel spending in the stimulus (Page 11)
$1 Billion for the Follow-Up to the 2010 Census (Page 49)
Discretion is given to governors and Mayors for how to spend a large chunk of the money. The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently sent Congress a $96.6 billion wish list of "shovel-ready" projects which now could be funded by the stimulus. These projects include: "$1 million for annual sewer rehabilitation in Casper, WY; $6.1 million for corporate hangars, parking lots, and a business apron at the Fayetteville, AR airport; 28 projects with the term "stadium" in them; and 117 projects mentioning landscaping and/or beautification efforts. The taxpayers should be most teed off at the 20 golf courses included in the list." SOURCE National Taxpayers Union
News of all of this pork barrel spending hit the news media, and public approval for this dropped significantly as did Obama’s national approval ratings. This caused fear and panic within the chambers of Government. In other words, the Democrats were caught red handed in numerous political paybacks amidst what we are told will be the end of the American government should this bill fail. The pressure that was placed on these guys by we the people prompted them to cut, or reduce from these items…..
What got cut from the stimulus bill
updated 5:40 p.m. EST, Sat February 7, 2009
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/stimulus.cuts/index.html
CNN obtained, from a Democratic leadership aide, a list of some programs that have been cut, either entirely or partially:
Partially cut:
• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)
• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)
• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)
• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)
Fully eliminated
• $55 million for historic preservation
• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters
• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization
• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
• $100 million for distance learning
• $98 million for school nutrition
• $50 million for aquaculture
• $2 billion for broadband
• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology
• $50 million for detention trustee
• $25 million for Marshalls Construction
• $300 million for federal prisons
• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program
• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program
• $10 million state and local law enforcement
• $50 million for NASA
• $50 million for aeronautics
• $50 million for exploration
• $50 million for Cross Agency Support
• $200 million for National Science Foundation
• $100 million for science
• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees
• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration
• $89 million General Services Administration operations
• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security
• $200 million Transportation Security Administration
• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use
• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife
• $55 million for historic preservation
• $20 million for working capital fund
• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start
• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity
• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants
• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)
• $16 billion for school construction
• $3.5 billion for higher education construction
• $1.25 billion for project based rental
• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization
• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing
• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)
Do you see how reckless they are with your money? Do you see what irresponsible nonsense we the taxpayer were about to be forced to pay for if we were not told, amidst a so-called economic crisis? I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if this was all orchestrated by the Democrats (the collapse last year and everything) for the sole purpose of restructuring everything under their own order, so that if they restructured America according to a system they could control, they couldn’t lose any more elections. I have some arguments in favor of that theory, but I am not going to go into that now. The Congressional Budget Office, which is the Gold Standard for advising lawmakers on money matters and so forth, has stated in a recent letter that this bill will do little, if anything to help the economy.
All of this massive Government spending is going to have to be paid by someone. You, your children, and your grandchildren will have to pay for this for many, many years to come. The question is how? If liberals are so against growth in the private sector (and they are), where is the money going to come from? Government can’t create anything. We create Government, but their thinking is entirely backwards. Thinking that this stimulus plan will stimulate the economy is like thinking that a heart can function without blood. If it has no blood, then the heart is useless for the function of the heart is to pump blood. Government is useless if the people are in no economic condition to support it. They are not going to sacrifice for you, yet you will be forced to sacrifice for them.
Can somebody spell CORRUPTION? And remember folks, this is only week three of the Obama administration.