The Obama Stimulus - now it makes sense
Written by Michael Vass
I have for some time now been a critic of the Obama Stimulus. I have stated in no uncertain terms that I consider all $787 billion dollars of our tax money (yet to be earned) to be a complete waste and a danger on huge levels. I have followed the massive waste of the programs funded with this money to date, and I have noted the absolute failure of the Obama Stimulus to create or “save” a single job.
Throughout all of this I have tried to understand how anyone with a calculator and about a day of expereince in the private sector would believe any of this would work. I have tried to understand how anyone could be begiled into accepting a theory like ‘we will spend our way to success’ outside of an econmics class (high school level). It lead me to my post Democrats admit they know nothing about economics where I stated
“Since the Stimulus has been passed, even as the Obama Administration proffered the idea of success, the unemployment rate has risen dramatically. The economy has sagged. More people are in danger of losing homes and jobs than ever before. And the most optimistic reports from the Obama economic team now forecast this situation to continue to get worse for perhaps another year before any real improvement occurs…
Do we need another stimulus plan? If Democrats and the Obama Administration had any clue about finances, the promises they made, or the actual state of the economy the answer would be an emphatic no. But this is a group of legislators that prefer to grandstand on blaming someone else for what they did. A group of Congressional lawmakers that achieved the least possible with the most press coverage of them assailing everyone else for their failures. This is a Democrat plurality in Government that is the equivalent of a dim bulb that someone forgot to turn on.”
But perhaps I missed it. I didn’t understand the real root of the problem. I overlooked the cause and was focused on the symptoms.
Here is the answer that I think says it all.
There you go. Out of 432 Cabinet members - including State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development - not even 10% of President Obama’s people have expereince in a real job. They have no idea of working in the real world. They are predominantly acedemics and dreamers that, more and more openly, think that socialism is an answer. Too bad none of them have lived in a socialist nation, nor apparently spoken to anyone that had to live under such a duress and then came to America to escape it.
Yes, I think this is the real problem the ultimate cause of our current economic malaise. No President Obama did not create the problem of today. But it is his plans, and spending, and waste, that is making the situation worse faster than ever before. Congress and Government have never understood how to actually live on a budget, given. But the implications of what is currently being sown by Congress and the Obama Administration is untenable even by standards of Government.
I wish I could take solace in the thought that I did not vote for President Obama. But that will not protect me, my house, or my investments and business. Nor does the fact that some of my readers did or did not vote the same protect them.
We are all not without a voice and a choice in this though. In the 2010 mid-term elections you can make your voice heard by your vote. If you think that Congress is wrong to pass Bills without reading them, vote against those that passed the Obama Stimulus. If you think that the economy is worse and the debt is higher, vote against those that made it so. If you think that doubling your electricity and gasoline costs is bad, that a job summit will not get you off unemployment, that taking more money out of your pocket for a health care Bill that will not do what its purose is, that apologizing for every action America has ever done is wrong - vote and change those in charge.
I did not vote for President Obama because his record and speeches told me this would happen. In 2010 I will be voting in the mid-term elections, and I recall that Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand, and Rep. Hinchey all voted for the Obama Stimulus, are trying to pass a Health Care Reform Bill without even paying attention to the questions of their constituents, and some have even supported ACORN after receiving commitments of financial backing even as the organization faces charges in several states and blatantly broke the law.
Will you recall all of this? Will you remind the President and Congress of who they work for? Will you vote to enforce the thought that the real world is not some classroom experiment for a group of acedemics? Or will you vote to get more of the same “Change you can believe in”?
