Posted on 02/03/2008 8:20:59 AM PST by JACKRUSSELL
I'm incensed at the Bush/Pelosi $150 billion economic stimulus package. You should be, too.
Sending us a check for a couple of hundred bucks is a pandering joke — an economic slap in our faces.
Hopefully you are smart enough to see through this economic smokescreen. Even if you spend all of the money — your money, by the way, coming back to you — it will do little if anything to improve the sagging economy.
Sending Americans a check is economic flash over substance. If our professional politicians really wanted to improve the economy, they would do a couple of key things.
* Cut the bloated, wasteful federal budget. Cut it by 10 percent or more over the next couple of years.
The blob-like federal government has grown to such a size that it is now eating itself with a $9 trillion debt and billions in deficits, smothering economic opportunity.
If you want real economic stimulus it cannot be accomplished until the federal beast is reined in and put on a diet.
Although I am no economist, this is so fundamental to improving our economy that I am surprised so few of the talking heads have discussed it as a means to improving the long-term American economic condition. I have always lived within my means, and my government should, too.
* Give small businesses tax relief. We must create incentives for small businesses to expand and hire more people. We could accomplished this by getting the onerous, unaccountable IRS off of individuals' backs.
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. Strangling them with taxes and stacks of regulations, rules and requirements sucks the life out of our economy.
We must do whatever we can to assist small businesses and encourage them to grow.
Putting money back in Americans' pockets is a good idea only if the money is in the form of permanent tax cuts.
Keeping more of their money gives them more economic choices. Socialists and bloodsuckers aside, I have yet to meet an American who does not favor tax cuts and keeping more of his or her money.
Instead, the professional bureaucrats who run our government want to give you some of your money back in hopes that you spend it on blingbling, big-screen televisions and other indulgent garbage.
Even if everyone blew through the money, it would do little to prop up our economy.
Bailing water on the Titanic may have sounded like a good idea at the time, but you would have drowned anyway.
Robbing and spending our grandchildren's tax dollars today is a recipe for economic disaster. We cannot tax our way out of this economic mess without pushing the middle class further into the economic abyss.
The only way out of this is to grow our way out of it. That can be accomplished only by reducing the size of the federal beast, doing whatever we can to help instead of hindering small business, and giving all Americans permanent and meaningful tax cuts.
As the American presidential primary juggernaut roars down the political track, voters need to ask two key economic questions:
* Do I really believe that federally controlled health care will improve the quality of health care?
* Do I believe that more or less government intrusion is the right approach?
America remains an economic powerhouse. Our economy is four times that of China, but China, India and other burgeoning economies are nipping at our economic heels. If we continue down the path we are on, China's economy will eclipse our own by 2030. That's not good.
The foundation of freedom is economic freedom. You know far better than others how to spend your hard-earned money, how to invest it, and how to take care of your health. Vote for your economic freedom. The economic fate of our country is your hands.
Because the people who steal our money to “redistribute” it, have a vested interest in perpetuating the system.
Sorry Ted but if the government lived within it’s means we would all be living in little self sufficient enclaves, I know a wondrous concept around here.
Growth in spending multiples throughout the economy. Government spending was done this decade to ward off an economic depression where commodity prices crash and crash and crash because noone can spend because noone works. A rising tide lifts all boats. I am sorry but some people have no business discussing macro economics.
You can’t lower rates below zero, well you can but it’s silly, and the Fed brushed up against zero before doing 16 or however many hikes. That shows how bad off we were after the market crash and 9-11.
Ted and Fred. Now, there’s a ticket I could work with...
Lock and Load.
Yeah! And furthermore, 600 dollars is an insult. What can I buy with 600 dollars? A car costs thousands. A nice car costs 30,000+. I want the government to send me enough money to REALLY lift some boats!
Complete and utter bull****.
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I haven’t given up on Romney and will vote for him on Tues, but I’m sick to think what we’re facing if McCain is the nominee.
Nugent rocks out at Gibson Custom Shop 10th anniversary party with his "White Buffalo" custom Byrdland.
Same gig, vintage Byrdland.
Stars and Stripes Les Paul used on his recent support the troops tours of Iraq.
With flag.
Micigan born, Southerner by disposition?
Ted Nugent for PREZ! He puts the 2nd Amendment FIRST.
A new gun and some ammo.
A wise investment, considering what's on the horizon.
Just remember how many millions of people are totally financially dependent on the continued growth of government and the answer will become clearer. DC isn't full of idiots, it's full of ideologues who have a very different view of what constitutes economic health than we do.
“if McCain is the nominee.”
McDemocrat!
I already have the all guns I need. The ammo though, that’s something to consider. lol
If you want to consider a true plan to fix the economy you may want to look to the extreme. Cut the spending overseas as Dr Ron Paul suggests by bringing the troops home and guarding only our borders as the constitution defines. Any other position will take to long to recover.
Ted is right here on this endorsement page...lol
http://endorsements.hucksarmy.com/
Look under the “Other Individuals” heading...
He couldn’t get the Presidency , but I’m willing to bet he could nail down a Senate seat . He would be great in the Senate , he should really consider it ...
And besides we are going to need an answer to Al Franken ..
The NOOGE! What a great American!
I’m willing to bet he could nail down a Senate seat.
It would be a Motor City Madhouse. He’s got a stranglehold on common sense.
He lives up the ‘road’ (in Texas speak is alot of miles, but neighbors) from the Bush ranch.
Al Gore also wants to ban the Internal Combustion Engine!
We can all work as ricksha pullers.
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