We're in deep, deep economic trouble. And these liberals are going to friggin' sing and dance along, all the way, as they dance off a cliff.
WAKE UP AMERICA
Posted on 07/22/2010 2:44:38 AM PDT by Scanian
In extending jobless benefits this week, Democrats are trying to claim the moral high ground -- pretending they "stood on the side" of "working families," as President Obama put it, while heartless Republicans stood in the way.
It's rubbish. Starting with the fact that the extension -- which will let out-of-work Americans collect weekly checks for almost two years, instead of the traditional 26 weeks -- will bloat the federal deficit by some $34 billion.
That's right: The entire tab for stretching out benefits will simply be added to this year's shortfall, now pegged at a mind-blowing $1.4 trillion.
As if it's all just play money.
It's not, of course.
Indeed, the Dems' horrifying yearly gaps are pushing the nation's total debt to dangerous levels -- and diverting ever-more-scarce capital from the job-creating private sector.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If we keep extending unemployment ad infinitum, at what point does it stop being unemployment and become welfare.
The breaking of a promise of “read my lips, no new taxes” had much to do with bringing one presidency to an end.
Our president promised early this year on national TV, “Pay - Go.” Are our representatives to hold him to his promise or make a liar out of him? Virtually all of the GOP took him at his word and wanted to take the money from available funds. The democrats evidently don’t have a problem breaking the promises of their leader and making more of a liar out of him.
We're in deep, deep economic trouble. And these liberals are going to friggin' sing and dance along, all the way, as they dance off a cliff.
However, the liberal dim-0-crat corollary to that rule is keep digging - digging for votes that is.
To paraphrase Harry "The Hop" Hopkins: VOTE, VOTE - ELECT, ELECT - TAX, TAX!
It seems that, in truth, the Democrats are standing on the side of non-working families.
Working families merely pay more taxes to support the non-working.
“The democrats evidently don’t have a problem breaking the promises...”
And there is the fundamental difference. Their side doesn’t feel constrained by promises, laws, fiscal reality, or even the Constitution. When you have the knee-pad MSM doing your PR, no outrage is egregious enough NOT to be excused, swept under the rug, or simply ignored.
More golf, more ice cream, more vacations. Everything is fine.
What? Me worry?
You are being mean. They are just convenient little fibs. ;-)
““The democrats evidently don’t have a problem breaking the promises...””
We read about the Soviet Union for 50 years and their 5 year plans, their lies and their intrusion into the life of their citizens.
The Obama administration is different, how?
I wonder what the grand total of all bills passed that weren’t paid for would add up to since Pay-Go was supposedly enacted. Total dollars.
The Obama administration is contradicting our Constitution every day. By all rights they should have been tried already.
The way Treasury is printing dollars 24/7 it won't be long before it is "play money"....
Not true because in the long run the massive debt that is being run up, along with the massive amount of currency that is being printed, will destroy the economy. The future prosperity of our children and grandchildren is being squandered for cheap political points. People who aren't working and people at the bottom rungs of society will feel the effects first. Those folks will be hit the hardest and will suffer the longest. The really sad part is this is the goal because the results of this policy will make millions of people dependent on gubmint. Precisely what the Dims want.....kill the goose that lays the golden eggs of prosperity and replace it with gubmint dependence. Watch and see. The real party hasn't even begun yet.....
There are some startling graphs in this article. It deserves a thread of its own, but I don’t know how:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/06/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2010
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but the loss of one's dignity would seem to be the first casualty in becoming a ward of the state. Other psychological repercussions, like a diminution in self-worth and a need for rationalization would surely ensue.
Go ahead, call me insensitive, but I feel sorry for these people, not because they don't have work, but because they stop believing in the value of work. I would flip burgers with the best of them, or wash cars, but I wouldn't take a government check, not for long, anyway.
A more humane policy would provide eight, maybe ten weeks of unemployment, and yes, force the recipient to get out there and take somethng that may be beneath them.
How can you be too proud to take some jobs but not proud enough to refuse to take from the state?
I know that some people who lose their jobs will lose their houses and cars, etc., but you'll never convince me that unemployment insurance payments enable them to keep their lives the same, either.
..................or designate them government employees as they do as much, nothing, plus it would be good for their self esteem ;-)
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