Posted on 02/13/2009 8:29:30 AM PST by lewisglad
90% of jobs are in small business.
This Porkulus will wipe out a lot of small business, and make it extremely hard to start a small business.
That is one of the main features of European countries.
It is a route to permanent recession, just like European countries.
Re: It is a route to permanent recession, just like European countries.
Very similar to the way the old USSR blamed 70 years of failed crop harvests not on collectivist farming, but on 70 years of “unusually bad weather.”
I’m about ready to hoist the black flag. I pick up my new shotgun today and am still hopeful that it’ll only be used for protection/defense, but I’m ready to be “proactive” if circumstances warrant it. Goldberg is right that we’re heading for inflation of Zimbabwean proportions and a revolution may be just around the corner.
Mr Goldberg’s otherwise correct article seems to have one misleading typo:
The line: “Governments, meanwhile, grow from their mistakes and learn to Make money.”
Should read:Governments, meanwhile, grow from their mistakes and learn to Fake money.
Maybe he is still running a PC and his politically correct MS Word spell checker changed the “F” to and “M.” If National Review can’t afford to get him a MAC, maybe they could get OpenOffice to replace Word — after all, it is free.
Absolutely correct. The real difficulty is that the people he brought with him have already established a track record of failure. And they still preach the idiotic internationalist pieties of the UN and the ICC, thoroughly corrupt and wasteful institutions whose prime concern is antithetical to the best interests of the U.S. and the West generally. Carter brought us Iran; Clinton, Somalia. The UN has presented us with Darfur. Those are the new/old players, and to add insult to injury they have claimed the risible title of "realists."
LOL I have bben known to do just that.
Re: “ If conservative Republicans can hold the Dems feet to the fire and win back control over the next 4 to 8 years and bring back free market capitalism”
One point: The above line from your post presupposes that there will be an actual contested election in 2010 and/or 2012. Every known objective of Obamanation is directly focused on the prevention of that occurrence.
As “deepthroat” is portrayed as saying in “All the President’s Men,” “Follow the money!”
The “stimulus” bill, like the Keynes’ “economic” policy which underlies it is a means of rationalizing socialism rather than stimulating the economy.
Consider:
1. Regardless of economic status, if you are a permanent federal bureaucrat or you receive more from the government that your tax payments (if any) you are on welfare. The word has a distasteful connotation but “on the dole” correctly describes the majority of almost every nation of europe - over 70% in some cases. Obama’s plan, if he is able to be “successful” from his viewpoint, will result in over 50% of americans being effectively “on the dole.”
2. The funding of his old “community organizing” buddies in Acorn with hundreds of millions — Sole objective is to exponentially accelerate voter fraud using the tax-paying victims to fund it.
3. Objective of “Censorship Doctrine” is exclusively to abolish and eventually criminalize all public criticism of government. It WILL NOT be applied to force any “balance” in the MSM either electronic or print.
4. Total jihad against 2nd Amendment as well as all other natural rights recognized by the Bill of Rights. Other than Obama’s campaign lie of “I support the 2nd amendment” he has a history of more than 50 major statements and actions against gun freedom and as far as I can find NO statement or action in favor of it. Since the campaign he has reportedly required all persons appointed or hired by his administration to fill out a personal questionnaire which asks if the applicant or any member of his/her family owns, has ever owned, or has access to, a gun. He doesn’t want to have any sentiment in favor of individual freedom within his administration.
Lets get real: The old democratic party is dead. Truman, if alive, would be horrified at this bunch.
If the lights go out here, they go out all over the world. Obama’s stated objectives include an exponential increase in transfer of wealth from US taxpayers to the UN.
The danger we face is real, and the threat of severe recession - even depression — is bad but recovery possible. The threat of generations long, or even perpetual, socialism is much, much worse.
Sure you can keep it for that, but I'd recommend pheasant hunting. Far more productive.
It’s not that I doubt that any of your predictions would be something the Dems would like to accomplish, but just watching how screwed up they were trying to put together this stimulus bill tells me they will fail at most things just through their own inability to organize. When the Democrats can’t come together to spend a trillion dollars you know they are in trouble.
The assumption that they can somehow prevent a challenge in 2012 is a little bit paranoid.
Steny Hoyer says that true bipartisanship might make elections unnecessary.
I see a red (in more ways than one) flag here.
“Steny Hoyer says that true bipartisanship might make elections unnecessary.”
He’s whistling in the wind. True bipartisanship to democrats means going along with everything they want with hopes of getting an occasional bone thrown their way. The Republicans seem to have grown backbones and I couldn’t be happier.
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