okay, what a hideous day this has been for the United States! Mr. Obama has signed a bill that perpetuates an enormous load of debt for nonsense like ATV park trails, dog park, honeybee insurance, saving Nancy Pelosi's district-dwelling-salt-marsh-mouse, buying new cars for federal employees, STD prevention programs, ad nauseum. oh yeah, i guess the commerce department is in need of redecorating! is anyone out there paying attention to this? i am amazed that after the promises of a transparent White House administration we have a tax cheater for Treasury Secretary (every time Mr. Geitner speaks the stock market plunges). Mr. Richardson had some little Grand Jury issue, so he'd have to pass on a cabinet position. Oh Mr. Daschel, a $128,000 tax bill "oversight" and "honest" mistake is more than most people will make in several years! And this was only his tax bill? Mr. Obama's declaration that any potential legislation would be posted on a website for the public to read and review (and the administration would take into account the public's opinion) for five days before it is presented for a vote!!! What happened to that? Why do i not see these things reported on CNN or Headline News?
I cannot believe how fast and furious this heinous bill was passed and signed. Our economy needed "something" to be done, so spending $788 billion of money we don't have was better than nothing. NOT! The best way for our economy to recover would be to let people keep more of the money they earn! Get off the backs of small business owners! Reduce corporate income and payroll taxes. It should not cost so much money just to employ a worker. It sounds like Mr. Obama feels that the entrepreneurs of this country aren't giving their fair share of their money. It is them that will bear the brunt of this staggering burdensome deficit spending. It is the people who have some money that risk it to start new businesses! Punishing successful people will quash their interest or capability to continue assuming such risks! When was the last time a poor person offered you a job?
this weekend's newspaper in the Houston Chronicle detailed the amounts of the various "tax cuts" and "spending" outlined in the "stimulus" bill. it was interesting that none of the offensive pork and earmarked spending details were spelled out in the chart. However, upon further scrutiny, the article showed a column for "other" in many of the columns. The total amount of "other" was more than $37 BILLION dollars! wow! that is a pretty significant amount to only merit the designation of "other" spending!
can we talk about the census? in 2010 the commerce department is (was?) scheduled to conduct the once-a-decade census which determines boundaries for congressional districts, public funding for government programs, etc., based on population figures. the reason the commerce department does this is because the congress, senate and presidential administration should not be able to manipulate the data obtained in the census; the commerce department is intended to be a non-partisan, information gathering agent in the course of administering the census. Mr. Obama is making the hugest power grab imaginable here; by casually declaring that he wants his admininstration to take over the job, he and his colleagues in the democrat party can basically unilaterally and without the bothersome interference of anyone, assign new districts and increase the democrat's voting base without a whimper of objection from anyone. Foxes guarding the chickens!
the political system is never going to be the salvation of the people of any country. the United States has the best thing going. To let it slide into a socialist republic is akin to giving up on life because you suffer from the common cold. Spread the word of what is happening in Washington, D.C. If we concede without so much as a word of dissent to this unraveling of the fabric of our free market, free society, it will be an irreversible tragedy.
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