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Mark Steyn: Stimulated right into being another Europe
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Posted on 01/31/2009 8:26:44 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Mark Steyn: Stimulated right into being another Europe Plan also could trigger protectionist backlash, just like during the Depression. Mark Steyn Syndicated columnist

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, is on TV explaining the (at this point the congregation shall fall to its knees and prostrate itself) "stimulus." "How," asks the lady from CBS, "does $335 million in STD prevention stimulate the economy?"

"I'll tell you how," says Speaker Pelosi. "I'm a big believer in prevention. And we have, er… there is a part of the bill on the House side that is about prevention. It's about it being less expensive to the states to do these measures."

Makes a lot of sense. If we have more STD prevention, it will be safer for loose women to go into bars and pick up feckless men, thus stimulating the critical beer and nuts and jukebox industries. To do this, we need trillion-dollar deficits, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay off, but, with sufficient investment in prevention measures, there won't be any children or grandchildren, so there's that problem solved.

The more interviews Speaker Pelosi gives explaining how vital the STD industry is to restarting the U.S. economy, the more I find myself hearing "syphilis" every time she says "stimulus." In late September, America was showing the first signs of "primary stimulus" – a few billion lesions popping up on the rarely glimpsed naughty bits of the economy: the subprime mortgage racket, the leverage kings. Now, the condition has metastasized in a mere four months into the advanced stages of "tertiary stimulus," with trillions of hideous, ever more inflamed pustules sprouting in every nook and cranny as the central nervous system of the body politic crumbles into total insanity

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bailout; marksteyn; patbuchanan; pitchforkpat; steyn; stimulus; stimuluspackage

1 posted on 01/31/2009 8:26:44 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
the more I find myself hearing "syphilis" every time she says "stimulus."

LOL!

2 posted on 01/31/2009 8:28:50 AM PST by livius
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To: Sub-Driver
stim.u.lus something that incites to action or exertion or quickens action, feeling, thought

crack is a stimulant. effects are short lived, and the user immediately wants more. user inevitably turns to crime to feed his habit, quickly becomes poor and isolated, life expectancy is very short
3 posted on 01/31/2009 8:31:31 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Sub-Driver
Big government is where nations go to die

Nicely put.

4 posted on 01/31/2009 8:33:39 AM PST by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: livius

BUMP!


5 posted on 01/31/2009 8:34:28 AM PST by A. Morgan (Yikes! Are we in serious trouble, yet, or what?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Closer to Zimbabwe than Europe.


6 posted on 01/31/2009 8:35:16 AM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: SeraphimApprentice; Interesting Times; zot

Steyn ping & exerpt:

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, is on TV explaining... “How...the...$335 million in STD prevention stimulate the economy?”

“I’ll tell you how,” says Speaker Pelosi. “I’m a big believer in prevention. And we have, er… there is a part of the bill on the House side that is about prevention. It’s about it being less expensive to the states to do these measures.”

Makes a lot of sense. If we have more STD prevention, it will be safer for loose women to go into bars and pick up feckless men, thus stimulating the critical beer and nuts and jukebox industries.


7 posted on 01/31/2009 8:49:47 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead (3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87))
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To: Flycatcher
Big government is where nations go to die ....A classic for sure!

"I'll tell you how," says Speaker Mussolini. "I'm a big believer in prevention."

So's her boss...note his recent fatwah against Rush had two critical verbs..."can't" and "don't". The Party of Can't and Don't ( also known as the party of the KKK) has taken charge of a global shift to the left! If they're not careful, they could stop the Earth's rotation, which would make Algore's predictions of global warming true (for half the globe anyway)!

8 posted on 01/31/2009 8:51:02 AM PST by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: Sub-Driver

Classic Steyn, as 99% usual!

I detect a shift in his tone; little less satirical, more angry.


9 posted on 01/31/2009 10:25:00 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: Partisan Hack

Steyn ping.


10 posted on 01/31/2009 10:51:11 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m a big believer in prevention, too. If we prevent congress from spending, we get the economy back. How’s that sound, Anunziata?

If we prevent pregnancy through abstinence, we are 100% successful in achieving prevention. And you, Anunziata?

I’m guessing she is more interested in preventing the spread of the minorities she claims to love, though, from her multizillion mansion in Pacific Heights, I doubt she can see any of them, even though they comprise a large part of her constituency.


11 posted on 01/31/2009 11:29:12 AM PST by DPMD (~)
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the Steyn ping. This is like watching a boat go over a waterfall.


12 posted on 01/31/2009 11:46:12 AM PST by zot
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To: All

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u79Wl8cX5Kw

“Stimulus package math for dummies”
(Added January 31, 2009)


13 posted on 01/31/2009 2:23:56 PM PST by Cindy
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To: zot

It’s like watching a star explode in Astronomy. Our economy is so large, it takes a long long time. But - it’s happening.

:(


14 posted on 01/31/2009 3:17:18 PM PST by 4Liberty (Discount window +fractional reserve banking = moral hazard + bank corporate welfare + Inflation tax)
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To: livius
......I find myself hearing "syphilis" every time she says "stimulus"........

ROTFLOL. "Stimulated" into being another Europe....

Not to worry------"syphillis and stimulate" is Planned Phood's specialty.

PP will (ahem) rise to the occasion, rubbers in hand, and a K-12 course on how to avoid STD's.

15 posted on 01/31/2009 4:14:52 PM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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To: livius; Sub-Driver

"the more I find myself hearing "syphilis" every time she says "stimulus." LOL!
2 posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:28:50 AM by livius

Pelosi's STD stimulus package gives new meaning to the phrase
"liberal claptrap"...

Rubber stamp liberalism?

Pelosi is fast becoming a character from an Evelyn Waugh novel. The Condom Queen of American Liberalism.

16 posted on 01/31/2009 4:40:09 PM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Sub-Driver

Naughty, naughty.


17 posted on 01/31/2009 9:15:51 PM PST by Ciexyz (Go Steelers!)
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To: Cindy; Sub-Driver; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; blam; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; ...
Flopping Aces has a nice graphic to put the enormity of the Stimulus package into perspective:

A Mark Steyn Masterpiece on The Stimulus Bill

18 posted on 02/02/2009 1:36:16 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Makes a lot of sense. If we have more STD prevention, it will be safer for loose women to go into bars and pick up feckless men, thus stimulating the critical beer and nuts and jukebox industries.

ROFL! People work in those industries so it must be good.

19 posted on 02/02/2009 1:38:17 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Fred Nerks; justiceseeker93; ..
Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach, not least for the other link.
20 posted on 02/02/2009 6:07:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Plan also could trigger protectionist backlash, just like during the Depression.

21 posted on 02/02/2009 6:09:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ernie. The more I observed N.P. the more I think she has syphilis on the brain. This broad is so screwed up, well I had better watch my tongue, I could offend some of our wonderful ladies at this site.


22 posted on 02/02/2009 8:52:25 PM PST by Marine_Uncle
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To: Sub-Driver

OK Nancy... second question how is it cheaper for the feds to do it than the states exactly?


23 posted on 02/02/2009 8:57:14 PM PST by GeronL (Had the flu. Not well yet.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Wait a minute. It's wrong of me to expect the children and grandchildren of today to pony up for my beer nuts and hookers?

Who knew?

24 posted on 02/02/2009 9:05:58 PM PST by Billthedrill
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