Scary thought for the day.
This Congress is not only the
worst Congress ever, spending money without thought or logic. Forget that these people were the ones a year ago complaining that we were mortgaging our future to the Chinese.
Obviously, this was just part of their patented "we'll complain about everything, even stuff that we do," strategy of Bush bashing.
No, the country has been taken over by
liberals who are complete morons.
There are several bills being rammed through Congress that are complete train wrecks.
They make no sense, have no rational basis in economic theory, and are historically shown to be bad ideas. Hell, these things aren't even being debated.
The end result is either they are trying to destroy the country on purpose or not on purpose.
Recently, I witnessed the end of liberals being able to even make arguments anymore. There is no discussion, it's more like "I support the bill even though noone knows what's in it. How dare you stupid conservatives even try to debate the issue." Follow by insult, repeat until conversation ends.
Liberal thought processes have basically devolved into them arguing against their own prejudices. That is, there is no longer even a thought process anymore. It's basically tribal debasement. You're either a God-bag,
tea-bagger, jesus-freak not worth debating or a heartless doctor paying for your Porshe with excess toniscillectomies. Look at these
Code Pink assholes insulting military families.
First, there's the perennial favorite to destroy the country, Immigration Reform...or rather "repopulate the country with anyone please!" bill.
It's a democracy, people vote. So why not bring in people who have no connection to this country. They'll be easier to convince to vote your way. And to erase the connection to our country's past. I list this first because giving citizenship to tens of millions of people instantly, people who have no connection to this country through citizenship tests or family or respect for its laws and history will suddenly get to vote. Game changer. No go backs.
Second, the stimulus bill. Porkulus was passed with almost no debate or cognition. On a whim, I've tried finding actual testimony on the subject from back in January 2009. So, how's that working out for you?
What's depressing is that I've tried to do research on this, going through Congressional testimony on projections. Economist stuff. Nope. Just rammed through. If you look at the W versus O deficit chart above, you'll see that when W inherited the Clinton recession, he was able to come out of that without the gigantic blip that Obama signed into law. Also, he fought a war and rebuilt New Orlean and instituted a giant new medicade subsidy in that time. And his deficits were falling after those expenses went through.
Here's some fun stimuli
events:
- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla. - $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.
- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.
- $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.
- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.
- $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.
- $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.
- $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.
So, who drew the graph in the first place, based on what insight? No one knows and the libs don't care.
But even better are the stimulus jobs "
saved or created"
lies.
"
When the WH demanded that those who received Spendulus money "report" back on how many jobs were "saved or created," they insisted upon a nonsensical rule: If a single dollar of Spendulus was spent on an employee's salary, whether that employee was a new employee or an old one, that gets counted as a job "saved or created." If he's a new employee, that job was created. If he's an existing employee, that job was saved."
$25 billion here,
no jobs created.
Up to one-fourth of the 1
10,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger.
More than $4.7 million in federal stimulus aid so far has been funneled to schools in North Chicago, and state and federal officials say that money has saved the jobs of 473 teachers. Problem is, the district employs only
290 teachers.
In
another case, a shoe store in Kentucky that provided nine pairs of boots to the Army Corps of Engineers for $889.60 reported saving nine jobs. Such errors pervade the stimulus job creation estimates.
Right. 10 percent unemployment. And they're talking about a $1000 saving or creating 20 jobs.
Third, Cap and Trade. Since there's no such thing as global warming or man-man climate change...this piece of shit is pointless and expensive.
But this is too cute,
Obama to be given emergency dictator powers if carbon dioxide levels get too high.
"The bills require a federal declaration of a “climate emergency” if world greenhouse gas levels reach 450 parts per million. Guess what? The Pacific Northwest National Lab says it is a virtual certainty that level will be reached within a few months. The bill then requires the president to “direct all Federal agencies to use existing statutory authority to take appropriate actions...to address shortfalls" in achieving needed greenhouse gas reductions. When Vitter asked EPA Administrator what would be done in such a situation, she refused to say. So it must be asked: Would the president be empowered to do things like nationalize whole sectors of industry, ban coal use, restrict private automobile use, or whatever else the “emergency” requires?"
Huh? what?
Fourth, the health care bills. Pelosi is doing the best she can to ram these massive bills through Congress without the foggiest idea of what's in it. Some people have bothered to read it. I've read HR3200 which was scary enough. Scary in that you realize that Obama hasn't read it and that he's lying through his teeth about it. The
New Yorker has a piece that I am still consuming. Ace of Spades found these quotes though:
"There are two big (and linked) problems with the current health-care system. It excludes 46.3 million Americans, according to the Census Bureau, and it is inordinately expensive. The proposed reform purports to tackle both of these problems; in fact, it only addresses the first one in any systematic manner. The future cost savings that the Administration and its congressional allies are promising to deliver are based on wishful thinking and sleight of hand. Over time, the reform, as proposed, would almost certainly add substantially to the budget deficit, thereby worsening the long-term fiscal crisis that the country faces."In summary, "
At some point in the future, the fiscal consequences of the reform will have to be dealt with in a more meaningful way, but by then the principle of (near) universal coverage will be well established."
That is, someone will actually, at some point have to reassess the bill, fix it's defects, and start over. But that won't be done now...it's too important to ram this through now.
You wouldn't buy a house, insurance, a car, or an education this way, but the most important - most ground shifting bills ever proposed by the Congress are being rammed through without thought or debate.
Look, this country was founded and got rich on basic small government prinicples. When and where we've tried big government, it's failed. The left and it's liberal zombie soldiers want to march onward to more and more statism. They ignore the warning signs from their own failures and failures of state controlled economies from around the world. This is bad. They don't care.
