Posted on 07/22/2009 8:09:23 AM PDT by Sammy67
What’s the hurry? “I need $800 billion and I need it now, today.” Thus President Obama (summa dixit) shortly after taking office last winter. Maybe it’s all part of what Governor Mitch Daniels has called the Obama administration’s “shock and awe statism”: startle the punters with outrageous demands. Then tell them you want them met immediately, toot sweet, eftsoons and right speedily. “Don’t bother reading the bill, just give me the money.” It really was a breathtaking performance. He almost got away with it.
Almost. Sure, he got the dough. But the rumble you’ve been hearing in the background are doubts congregating. Any real stimulus does–what? It stimulates. And what has the President’s “stimulus” (really, a spending) package given us (apart from higher taxes coming to a paycheck near you, I mean)? Take your time . . .
Anyway, now that Obama is trying a repeat performance with the way we provide health care in this country, that rumble I mentioned is growing into a deafening roar.
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That's easy to explain - the hurry is to get the garbage rammed through before organized opposition can build to a point where it can be stopped.
Does everyone here know that less than 10% of the Porkulus money has been spent? Obama and his boys told us that there were all these shovel ready projects to receive the funding. They said that these were projects which would put people back to work immediately. They said unemployment would not go above 8%. They said that these were badly needed deferred maintenance projects, that the spending was crucial, etc. etc.
If all of this is true, why has so little of Porkulus actually been appropriated, and, why has unemployment gone well above 9%, if gov’t intervention was supposed to keep that from happening?
Why is Joe Biden allowed to get away with saying that “we guessed wrong on unemployment”???? Why is there guesswork in this administration? Didn’t they assure us that they knew what they were doing?
If economic recession happened with a Republican president, would the MSM and good Democrats let his administration get away with saying that they guessed wrong on unemployment????
WE can also talk about the bankruptcy of America and how this small incremental charge will not make a difference!
Our government is designed to work at a snail’s pace for good reason. Czars and presidential edicts override that reason.
Obummer is rushing anything he can through Congress because his popularity and poll numbers are dropping faster than Bill Clinton’s pants.
Obummer is rushing anything he can through Congress because his popularity and poll numbers are dropping faster than Bill Clinton’s pants.
IMHO...they need the Healthcare Bill passed to pay out on Porkulus....
Obummer is rushing anything he can through Congress because his popularity and poll numbers are dropping faster than Bill Clinton’s pants.
Well, maybe not THAT fast.
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