Posted on 10/24/2008 7:16:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you worry about the skyrocketing federal deficits of the Bush era, just wait till the Obama administration hits town. Spending pyrotechnics will be spectacular if Barack Obama is elected and his liberal Democrat allies increase their majorities in Congress come Nov. 4. We already know that Obama has proposed more than $800 billion in new spending, and that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing a $300 billion “stimulus” package on top of the $1 trillion-plus in Wall Street bailouts already approved. Obama defends this spending explosion as “spreading the wealth.” What hasn’t received enough attention, though, are the absurd spending plans already proposed by Obama and other liberals in Congress, plans that would surely come to fruition with expanded Democratic majorities and a like-minded president. House Republican Leader John Boehner put together a helpful compendium of half-baked Democratic spending bills that are sure to re-emerge like the living dead:
• Tax relief for trial lawyers -- $1.5 billion worth over a decade by changing rules to encourage more and riskier “jackpot justice” lawsuits. (Section 311 of H.R. 6049.)
• Obama’s own proposed Global Poverty Act that would require the United States to spend its own money working at “eradicating extreme hunger, promoting gender equality, empowering women… ensuring environmental sustainability…[and] achieving significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers” worldwide. Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy did the math and concluded this would amount to a new commitment of $845 billion in new foreign aid through 2015. (S.2433)
• New federal subsidies to buy gas for families making up to three times the federal poverty line, which would be $63,600 in annual income for a family of four. (H.R. 6561)
• Wage insurance. Create a new federal payroll tax on all workers to pay for “insurance” that would – get this – pay people up to 50 percent of the difference in wages between an old job and a new, lower-paying job. So if John Doe voluntarily takes a new job that requires 10 hours less work per week, the government would pay him for five of the hours that he doesn’t work – courtesy of other, harder-working wage earners.
• A new, Cabinet-level, multi-billion-dollar federal Department of Peace, dedicated to “peace education and training.” (H.R. 808)
These plans make clear that it would be the wealth of ordinary taxpayers being spread, mostly to people who didn’t earn it. The criminal justice system calls such a process “armed robbery” (because the government’s taxing power is backed up with arms). At this rate, “change we can believe in” would quickly become “nobody has any change left.”
And the Commie ‘RATS will be blaming these huge deficits on Bush and the Republicans for decades. Unfortunately, the illiterate morons living in this country will believe them.
Too many of our citizens were born yesterday. Gonna be some rough years ahead.
The reason I despise Congress Critters of all persuasions: They spend all their time trying to create new ways to spend my money.
This is cultural imperialism at its worst. Do you think most Islamic countries want equality for women? It is against their religion. But then, Obama's arrogance knows no bounds.
The Democrats are planning on nationalizing every 401(k) in the nation and bundling that money into Social Security. They claim that the government is “subsidizing” its citizen’s retirements by not collecting the exempt $80Billion taxes on our investments.
So, once that money is sucked into the government’s coffers, does anyone think those congress critters will be able to resist spending it on Obama’s Utopia?
OBAMA — CHAINS YOU CAN BLEED IN
“You know that he will be the first secretary. “Wage insurance?” Unbelievable!”
Rumor has it:ACORN is going into the insurance business.
That is reason #2 for me. The main reason I despise Congress Critters of all persuasions is that they spend all their time trying to create new ways to obtain my money.
Just say no to “OBAMANOMICS!!!!!”
Can you say “lard”?
Since Obama is SUCH a big fan of “spreading the wealth to those who have less” why doesn’t he share all this campaign money with John McCain - or is he exempt from “sharing?” Is it only those of us who actually go to a real JOB 40 hours a week who are supposed to not only “share” our wealth but allow him and his cronies to decide who we are going to “share” our hard-earned wages with?
Come on, Obama, put your money where your mouth is and split your Campaign dollars with the one who has less than you - isn’t that better for the entire COUNTRY????
You've stated the crux of the problem of Obortion. He has never had what most of us ordinary working stiffs would consider a real job. Most of his adult life he has spent either in school, as a "community organizer" (rabble rousing and agitprop), or campaigning for public office. Even the public offices he has held he hasn't done much work (i.e., voting "present" instead of looking at the issue at hand and making a decision).
As poorly as this reflects on Odouchebag, it is more an indictment of the stupidity of the sheeple who make up the majority of the electorate that they are now poised to elect this clown to the highest office in the land. I can't tell you when I have been more discouraged than I am now. I thought it was bad when the stupid sheeple threw out a decent and honorable man (GHW Bush) in favor of a bloviating, philandering POS. But this takes the cake.
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