It has often been said that to state a politician is "an honest politician" is an oxymoron. This past year we have seen multiple cases of this very fact. In Illinois we have the former "beloved" Governor Rod and then nonsense that is carried on in the Illinois House and Senate where almost every member has his hand out wanting to be rewarded.
On the Federal level we have imbeciles being elected to make imbecilic decisions supposedly for "the good of the American people". No matter what your political affiliation the line up is loaded with power brokers and want-a-bees that couldn't make it in the real world and chose politics. They are so adept at speaking out of both sides of their mouth's that even they don't appear to recognize the lying.
This is my blog and I have a Conservative view point on how things should be run in this country. Admittedly my views may not always be right, and my opinion can be changed as reason enters my brain. Others may differ, and that is okay, sometimes the differing brings better logic, but differing with my opinions does not prove them right.
My mind was blown this past week as I watched the blundering idiots in Washington purpose and approve a supposedly "Stimulus Bill" which may or may not have been what President Obama wanted. I have heard that normally the Administration proposes this kind of bill, but Obama has somewhat indicated that Nancy Pelosi was in charge of this development. Maybe it is too early for the inexperienced Obama to put together a complex bill, or maybe he realized the laughable inclusions and decided not to risk his name in case "Stimulus Bill" did not work.
The questions that have bothered me about this whole situation are:
1) Why was there such a hurry to get this passed? I have always been taught that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Could it be that a political agenda was more important than actually stimulating the economy?
2) Why was the President out campaigning for this proposal and making meaningless statements like "doing nothing is not an option". President Obama certainly encouraged us to be fearful of the future and to prepare for economic bad times, even greater than those that currently exist. Wow, I need to watch every penny and start looking for ways to hoard money to meet the future hard times coming to us. Anybody, even the politicians, know that the economy has tanked and that stimulating the economy can only be done by encouraging citizens to spend a little of their savings so that business will be encouraged to bring back laid off workers as the desire for goods increases. It doesn't take a genius to see that fact.
3) Why would this package cover such a long period of time where more spending of government money was done two to three years down the road instead of being used to stimulate the economy now? All I can say is DUH? This smells fishy?
4) Why are multiple costly new programs being started that will only drain the government of money instead of stimulating the economy which would increase government revenue to provide the cost of the desired new programs? I fail to see any common sense in this decision.
Dan's conclusion:
The Administration really believes that the economy will recover on its own, this is just a cycle and doing nothing probably is the right thing to do instead of public bail outs. Since the economy will take care of itself, then the agenda of the Democratic Party and Administration must use this "crisis" to accomplish the party goals before the economy swings back to functional. Scare the daylights out of the "dumb electorate" and pass the bill quickly and without defining how the funds will be spent. Then use the proceeds scheduled for two to three years down the road to enhance party goals for the next election. In the long run, the "dumb electorate" will forgive and forget. We Americans can only hope that this truly is not a "crisis" and that the economy will recover on its own, because if that assumption is incorrect the "Spending Bill" just passed will certainly sink the good ship USA as I see nothing that will stimulate the economy.
