Support For the Stimulus Is Not Based on Economics or History

Political Castaway ^ | February 13, 2009 | Hythloday

[Hythloday]

I have expressed repeatedly my dismay at the total lack of understanding of economics from President Obama and others. Eugene Robinson and Harold Meyerson each prove that support for this so-called stimulus bill is not based on history, economics or logic. Thee basis upon which they both attempt to justify this spending bill are so poorly researched and argued, that the only reasonable conclusion is that their priority is to push ideology. Here are a few examples

[Doogle]

a socialistic power grab...plan and simple, defended by the MSM and all RATS.

[mort56]

I agree and what really has been amazing is the MSM is defending the bill they haven’t even read. This is what passes for press scrutiny these days?

[Doogle]

forget creditability, they have none. It's their investment now to watch, he can't fail, he's their meal ticket.

[stayathomemom]

"You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.”

— Rahm Emanuel

[stayathomemom]

Another quote from September 28, 2008, found on the American Thinker web page

"Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis"

By James Simpson :

The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

[Vaduz]

The bill is so poorly researched and argued, that the only reasonable conclusion is that their priority is to push ideology.