The "New" New Deal

.....and they called Bush a liar! I may not be a GW Bush fan especially after he threw in all of our two cents towards banks that took the money and ran to Vegas. Well, that and a boat load of other spending he was responsible for. He's gone and we have Hope and Change. Obama is in charge and he apparently suffers from a short memory, or he must have skipped class and played basketball on the days they taught US History. It may also be possible that he's fully aware of history and is being completely dishonest to fleece the public in favor of old world style liberal spending and a march towards socialism. Whatever the case, he has been boldly speaking out about the urgency of spending now. He's spreading fear, doom and gloom smoother than you can spread warm butter on bread. There is a big problem with his message though. See, his message is that this economy is the worst since the Great Depression, and the solution is Government Spending (sorry, stimulus) on a massive scale. During his press conference, he talked about the urgency of getting this bill passed with no time for debate. "The time for debate has past..." He talked about how there are so many economists who agree that we must spend our way out of this mess and do it right away. He talked about the New Deal and how there are some who think FDR's spending with the New Deal prolonged the Depression, but don't listen to that, because it's not true. As it turns out, there is a lot of truth to that notion. I found a lot of that truth in my investigation into the New Deal. Some of my research took me to a place that I never thought I would find anything negative about FDR's rescue plans...The New York Times. Even further research took me to another liberal leaning periodical, US News and World Report. Obama also said "there is no disagreement, we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help jump start the economy." Apparently, there are a whole bunch of economists who disagree.

It would be pointless to post every single link that agrees with my argument as there are an equal amount of links that counter it. My point in this was to debunk Obama's belief that there is no disagreement on this concept. There certainly is and to spend Trillions on Trial and Error instead of spending far less on what has actually worked in the past is in my opinion, foolishly optimistic and dangerously irresponsible. To that note, let's talk about what has worked in the past. Obama keeps using the campaign talking points about "failed policies of the past." Lets look at facts before we permanently rewrite history. The economy Reagan inherited was far worse. He slashed TAX RATES, which immediately put money in people's pockets. This in turn flooded people's wallets with their own income and in turn, tax revenues to the government skyrocketed. The economy moved forward and the country had sustained growth for a very long period of time. This was done without costing the tax payers. Unfortunately, during his term, the Dems held both houses in Congress and porked the hell out of every bill that crossed his desk. He had to sign many into law as those same pork laden bills also included policies he supported and needed. Fast Forward to Bush #2. He inherited a slumping economy and his answer was to drop the TAX RATES again (for everyone, not just the rich) and the economy bounced back. During his term, we had 6 Years of growth while fighting separate wars. He signed spending bills with Republican pork and in turn, looked like a fool on the way out of office. But, is a tax rate cut really a failure of a policy? It's been tried, tested and proven to work. FDR's trial and error ended with massive spending with slow and limited success with levels of fantastic failure. Spending Trillions for a "We hope it will work".....just goes to show you what a waste of money ivy league education can be. The tax relief we'll see won't even be a rate cut which drives way more money into the working man's wallet than a check for $500-$1000.

If I'm wrong and this mess turns out great because of him, then I'll gladly eat crow. If not, then we're spending way too much and we've fucked ourselves royally. Oh, and why is it the Stimulus bill has provisions for universal healthcare? Shouldn't that be debated separately instead of quietly crammed down our throats? Don't be so quick to judge Bush for his administration's behavior, Obama is proving to be even more under-handed and within record time.

Jim Jones is in the House!

Hope and Change is what were told. An era of HOPE and an era of Responsibility has come. So far, I'm hearing nothing but scare tactics. "We must pass this massive bill right now or the economy will never get better." I'm sorry...what??? NEVER??? This piece of shit bill with hundreds of Billions in absolute PORK is the only solution to keep us from endless economic depression? How is building a dog park in Chula Vista, CA going to save our economy? How is 50 million going to the endowment for the arts going to save this economy? The polls alone show us that 35% of this nation now approves this bill. We all know how fat this pig of a bill is, yet we are being told that if it doesn't pass right now, our entire universe will crumble and we'll never be able to dig out. That is bullshit! We are being told, "Now is not the time to debate, we must act quickly!" Instead of responsibly removing complete waste from this bill, we must pass it now! Do not listen to anyone who tells you different....they don't know what those in the government know. Forget Common Sense!!!! It's not as intelligent as our trustworthy leaders. He's going as far as wanting to silence those who have differing opinions to the public. He wants us to trust him and he'll be the one to listen to differing opinions...we, the public, should just blindly support this bill. The ability to openly debate is a founding principle of this country. If we didn't have this principle, you would have No President Obama. Think about it....how could he have been elected if he were silenced because the brilliant trustworthy leaders in government told us they knew best.

This country voted for change indeed. This country did not vote for censorship. This country did not vote for Socialism. This country voted out republicans because they wasted so much money. This country voted out republicans because the public believes that the government was not straight with them. Our new government is not being straight with us. This is worse than Change! This lacks any Hope because it's fear mongering on a massive scale! We are being told that 800 Billion Dollars will turn this ship around. Most people don't even realize how much money that really is. I'm thrilled that details of this bill are being questioned. I'm thrilled that people aren't just rolling over and saying OK to waste of historic proportions. You can spend over 4 Million dollars a year since Columbus discovered America and still not exceed the amount in this bill. Even more pathetic is that there isn't jack shit in this bill that addresses the mortgage crisis which put us into this mess in the first place.

Obama is on TV telling us not to listen to people. Since when does a President tell a free people who they should listen to? If this isn't scary, I don't know what is. Even the most liberal Americans should take issue with this. If Bush told them who not to listen to, there would have been outrage in the streets. If you are a Democrat with another Bush in the white house and your told that you should not listen to CNN or NBC and that Bush knows what's best for you and you need to trust him. No Bush ever went as far as telling you what is media is best for you. He did take your trust and he broke it. You wanted a leader you could trust, who doesn't? But, how much of your freedom do you want to put in the hands of the government so you can feel like you have trustworthy leader? We must be able to debate in this nation! It doesn't' matter how good a speaker is, if the message is to silence opposing views, that speaker is a threat to your most basic rights.

Last night, he said Stimulus is spending and then laughed at those who don't to spend so much. Hey Jackass....The Government is NOT the economy. The goal is to get the PEOPLE to spend as the PEOPLE make up the ECONOMY. Having the government take out massive loans to spend trillions (TARP plus the 2009 Recovery Act) of the people's future money is not the fastest, most cost efficient way to get people to spend. As a citizen, would you rather have more money in every paycheck starting next week (which will exceed $1000 for the year) or would you rather they send you a check for $500-1000? Would you rather have corporate tax rates cut immediately to give the company you work for a chance to keep your ass employed, or keep the taxes high, have them lay your ass off and then wait for unemployment to take care of you until money from the government eventually hits businesses in your area and they begin to hire again?

People....for the love of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.....WAKE UP!