The most craptastic Crap Sandwich ever
Hope everyone’s enjoying the Bread and Circuses distraction this week while Congress gets ready to shove the most craptastic Crap Sandwich ever down our throats.
I’m spending the day tuning out the panem et circenses and reading through the stimulus text instead.
You can, too, at the handy site Read The Stimulus.
Power Line has a quick rundown.
Don’t let all the Obama/Biden photo ops with The Children fool you. The Generational Theft Act of 2009 is on its way.
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First?
Call your Senator’s office to complain about illegal alien benefits in SCHIP.
I can’t help but be reminded of the scene from “The Abyss” where Ed Harris has to relax so he can breathe the liquid oxygen. If he doesn’t, he will drown.
Why won’t you just relax and take it, Michelle!?
Don’t you know what’s good for you? Take your medicine, silly. We all need him to survive.
Yes. Emmaunel (sp?) was on Charlie Rose repeating his talking points over and over (boy is he boring) and he left out the adults, illegals, and those who can afford health insurance, when he talked about it. Rose hammered him on – no wait – he didn’t, Rose was chanting “Hari Rahma, Obama-Rama”…
So, an economic crisis precipitated by reckless and irresponsible consumer spending… is supposed to be cured by reckless and irresponsible government spending.
How apropo. This must be the point where we stare into the abyss, and the abyss stares back.
If you cared about budget deficits, you would have turned on Reagan and Bush, Jr.
According to opinion polls, Americans want to spend their money on a stimulus. What gives you the authority to stand in their way?
Polls are often falsified, and the authority comes from my voice as a citizen. The irony… you supporting a Bush policy.
Any government that runs off of opinion polls is doomed to failure. But aside from that, after 8 years of screaming like banshees over deficts, you all of a sudden are ok with a quadrupling of the defict in one month with more to come? What changed? Oh thats right, the ONE!!!! got into power and your masters told you it is now okay.
Democrats are okay with massive deficits, as long as they’re the ones running them up.
Yeah, I know. I was pointing it out to lgm, who can’t see the obvious.
Obama will beat bushs record spending in less than 30 days. With a promise of more on the way. Where the F$%^K is he getting all this money from? There are really only 2 places, print it or borrow it.
On January 19th, 2009 at 12:30 pm, lgm said:
Deficits aren’t the issue.
Oh, just my rights to liberty and freedom and property.
My money is NOT “theirs”, you slave-mongering monster, you despicable disgusting booster of the mindless collective.
The glow of Obama tends to blind people to the obvious.
What could go wrong with borrowing and/or printing trillions of dollars?!
Students of history will remember what happen to the German currency during WWII. Obama voters will not.
On January 19th, 2009 at 12:41 pm, Socky said:
It’s not the glow of Obama. This monstrous maya, this collectivist veil of illusion, has been around well before Obama was even born.
Ron Paul is right on the money issue.
Too bad he doesn’t recognize foreign enemies.
It was actualy before Hitler got in but we know what you mean.
Since the GOP is likely to lose in 2012 anyway, I wouldn’t mind seeing Ron Paul run against the Dear One. He’d at least make it entertaining.
When the really BIG crash happens, and it will, when printing funny money is essential and life gets really hard we shall see. When the Leech class finds out BroBama is not going to buy them houses, cars and free utilities we shall see.
As BroBama’s Security Services get ever more brutal we shall see. When Cap and Trade eliminates millions of jobs and a flood of immigrants take others we shall see.
When food, fuel and medical services get scarce we shall see. When children inform on parents and neighbor on neighbor we shall see. Our we the subservient European/Russian/Chinese or is there some rebellion left in our hearts? We shall see.
I do not plan on worshiping at the Alter of What’s Happening Now or any other pagan deity. Sorry BroBama, sorry Mr. Bush.
Hopefully there will be an election in 2012.
The root of the problem resides in the education system …
What else can explain the supposedly total agreement by economists that the only way to save the US and world economy is to spend – spend – spend ad infinitum ? …
Unbiased education, as opposed to the indoctrination currently in place, would result in a diverse set of opinions being put forth on how to best solve the problems … not the knee-jerk reactions to the multitude of false prophets of gloom and doom we are being force fed by the Congress …
TARP = Totally Asinine Response to Problems
My bad…I sometimes forget how we saved the Germans after WWII.
This is how I guage if the world is really coming to the end or not:
Turn on the news and see if the prime newsanchors are on the screen in the middle of the night, on weekends, on holidays or during special events. Right now, they are all dressing up and schmoozing like its New Years Eve, rather than informing the world on real issues.
I can guarantee that during MLK and inauguration day, there will not be any negative news stories (e.g. war, famine, Darfur, the ozone hole, the economy, illegal immigration, international corruption, terrorism, etc)
Oddly, all of the worlds troubles have been cured this weekend.
And thats why its all B.S.
FilmLadd seems to be upset with lgm-imagine that. The little weenie is not worth getting TOO upset about FilmLadd.
WAY OT…. Pardon for Ramos and Compean! Fox News reporting that Bush will pardon…
On January 19th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:
It’s not lgm that upsets me. How can one get upset at a mindless puppet?
It’s the collectivist creature pulling the strings that’s got me going at the moment.
The one that thinks MY money is the “American people’s” money.
I am glad to say that today and tomorrow I will NOT have any media invading my life. I will be working on my USCG Auxiliary minutes and prep for our meeting tonight and playing music while I do it. Tomorrow will be nothing but CD’s on the system. No, I don’t I pod… hate those pieces of crap….. as far as crap sandwiches… the plate will be full this administration. Time to force feed those darned things down some liberal throats instead.
ooops — It sounds like there may not an actual Pardon for Ramos and Compean, but their sentences may be commuted. So GWB doesn’t have the courage to state that they should not have even been prosecuted, only that they have paid their debt to society.
Weasly…
#25 … Good News but not Good Enough …
He COMMUTED their sentences … meaning they will be let out of jail …
He did not PARDON them … which means they will still have a criminal record and that will prevent them from many jobs for which they are qualified …
He has let their families lose their homes and become poverty stricken as a result of his attorney friends in south Texas … so much for all of that “COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE” BS …
Too little … Too late …
Breaking: Bush has commuted the sentences for Ramos and Compean.
At least they are getting out of jail.
It’s obvious by the chart of spending, that both parties are not to be trusted with our money. Can we now say ‘Fair Tax”
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer
I’m thinking this bill should have the Chinese and Saudis fund illegal immigrant construction of a nationwide monorail system powered by “green” natural gas from decomposing founding documents (surely the Constitution is rapidly decomposing), and then call our country the “Sen Robert Byrd Honorary (and future memorial) Museum of Failed Governance”.
You can’t really be an educator. Your contentious rhetoric is shallow, ignorant, and pathetically liberal.
The deficit spending by Reagan was necessary to re-establish the military that the Democrat Party steered into decay. Reagan’s spending not only strengthened the military, but coupled with tax rate cuts, stimulated jobs, and expanded, and accelerated the faltering economy that Carter’s guidance stymied. It is a fact that Reagan’s conservative principles turned the country in the right direction, and ended the malaise that engulfed it’s citizens.
There is no Bush junior.
Of what opinion polls do you speak? I keep up on all the news, and I haven’t seen this. People want to spend “their” money on a stimulus? Um, taxpayer money is not their money, it is Congress’s money to do with as they please.
Do you want to spend your money on a stimulus? If so, let me know. I’ll contact you with my name and address, and you can send me your money. I promise I will spend it on “a stimulus.” I guarantee it will be better spent by me, than by any of the ne’er-do-wells in Congress.
worth repeating from an earlier thread
Since the amount of money in these TARP/bailout/stimulus/slush funds is so gigantic, that’s what people naturally focus on. It’s also worth noting how miserably government does on projects that are paid for by your money.
A prime example is right in my neighborhood. An addition of a carpool lane to a section of a freeway for only a few miles has now gone on for more than five years with no end in sight. The traffic situation is much worse than it was before, with cars staying on surface streets for longer periods of time, belching pollution as they idle. Time and time, deadlines have not been met, and no one or no company has been held to account. A few blocks away, work began on an existing on-ramp more than a year ago. It is still closed, although signs first promised it would reopen September 15. I think the next date was October 15. The most recent goal was completion by the end of 2008. There are new signs, new unused lanes, and even functioning, useless, traffic signals, but the “work” still has to go on for some reason – I suspect to pad the pockets of the construction companies and unions – the same folks who are now lobbying for pieces of the ever-increasing federal boondoggle fund.
OMG – HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAAAAAA
:takes breath:
HAHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHHAAHHAAAAA
I just wet myself. Our greatest economists are now opinion polls? Wait…
HAHAHAHHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAA
Now I know you are a plant. Nobody can be THAT stooopid…
Drugs, hookers, speedballs?
I will do what I can by screaming at my Senators after being betrayed by both of my Congressmen. Idaho residents are being sold down the river by my RINO Congressman Simpson, and the Blue Dog Democrat Minnick has also shown his fealty to San Fran Nan on the SCHIP vote. Wonder what piece of pork filled bone Idaho gets thrown for that one. Just keep trying to bribe me with my stolen tribute to the bloated bureaucracy of the District of Criminals.
We will continue our boycott of the coronation festivities for the least accomplished man to ever pull the wool over the sheeples eyes to glide into the White House. I don’t think my stomach and blood pressure can take the fawning, revisionist history, and outright lies of the whores in the old media.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
A half loaf is better than no loaf for a hungry man; glad for the Ramos and Compean families and DAMN George Bush once again. At least he and Lindsay Graham can pay lower green fees while Ramos and Compean struggle.
Damn McCain, Bush and the RINOs for the mockery of the Presidency tomorrow, for denigrating our flag, country, Constitution and way of life. That Chicago Street Hustler was given a bye from these cowards.
But all the best to Ramos and Compean and their families. God’s Speed on your release. Did I say Damn Bush? He never let his little white buddy Scooter Libby do hard time or get beaten unconscious by a prison gang-nor did he pardon the man. Just what the Hell IS Bush’s core belief? Does he have any? Begone weakling and worship with your Saudi oil friends at the Religion of Peace Mosque and Small Arms Factory, go.
*Let lgm and all the other moochers have their time in the sun; Reality will be the great equalizer; Fiscal conservatives must continue to speak out on the impending train wreck Bush is handing over to P-BO; P-BO will surely run it off the rails based on current events, and since he is destined to fail, conservatives must continue to convey appropriate actions needed so that in 2010 they can begin the massive cleanup after Hurricane Obama; They might want to start with the Fair Tax.
Hey Boomer…I hope Risch sticks up for us rather than giving in…he is new but overall I’m not happy with our other guys.
You bloggers who are responding to lgm are suckers. Lgm’s comments are carefully designed to provoke for whatever nefarious reason. The best way to deal with lgm, whatever it is, is to ignore its comments. Eventually it will go away if it is ignored for a long enough period of time.
right_on said (#34):
So, some things are worth going into debt for. How about avoiding a depression?
In other words, it was a deficit funded stimulus. That’s what Obama wants to do now, and you oppose it. Sounds more like ODS than logical analysis.
This is what kills me about the BHO lovefest. The kids helped elect him and he’s about to saddle them with a debt that will make Bush’s look like a picnic.
Reagan’s largest deficit is a pale shadow of the deficits the Dear One is promising.
No. Roosevelt’s deficit spending did nothing to end the depression – it prolonged it for many years. Nor will Bush’s or Obama’s deficit spending end the current recession. It will only exacerbate it. Even you aren’t stupid enough to think that the cure for maxing out your credit cards is to apply for more cards. In point of fact, few if any of the people pushing these bailouts think they’ll work to end the recession. That’s not what they’re for. The real intent is to nationalize as much of the economy under the rubric of a fiscal emergency as possible. That’s why the push to get everything passed right away. The longer people have to study it, the more they come to understand what it’s about.
Although Reagan expanded the military, the cause of the deficit was a failure by Congress to restrain other spending. The tax cuts had nothing to do with the deficits – revenues doubled during Reagan’s presidency, but spending went up faster. In any event, spending, even deficit spending, on the military is a legitimate government action – such as WWII, or Reagan rebuilding the military after the Carter debacle. Spending to bail out failed businesses, even businesses that fail due to government policies (as with the auto and mortgage industries), is not a legitimate role of constitutional government. It’s mostly wasted anyway, because the companies will not be able to survive given the current circumstances, none of which was improved by the bailout. They will only be able to survive and prosper if Congress repeals the CRA (for mortgage companies) and eliminates CAFE mandates and stops funneling money to the car companies so they can declare bankrupcy and rid themselves of the union contracts that are breaking them. In any event, it’s going to be a long time working through this mess, and no amount of government “stimulus” is going to help, unless they repeal Sarbanes-Oxley and pass capital gains and business tax cuts. That is the only sort of stimulus that really works.
You claimed earlier that Americans want to use their money for bailouts. That is untrue. According to the only poll I’ve seen on the subject, 70% oppose the bailouts.
Had to look that one up. Thanks, Michelle. I learned a new phrase today. A highly appropriate one, unfortunately.
After again reading the enumerated powers in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, I have to wonder, how are any of the following lawful:
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Social Security Administration…? I could go on.
Here’s my favorite from this bill:
I seem to have missed the part dealing with batteries in the Constitution. About the closest thing is this: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries”. Small problem though: who’s job is it, according to the U.S. Constitution, to invent things? Not the government, but rather “We the People”. This is killing me. If only Rep. John Shadegg could get his Enumerated Powers Act passed.
For those who think Bush did justice, the two border patrol agents should not have been in prison for doing their duty. Bush impriosoned them to pay back his illegal-immigration buddies, for whomBush left the borders open. Like a coward, Bush waited till the last day to pardon the two border partrol agents, he knew should not have been tried at all. But then, what could a spoilt, corrupt brat do when money rules his and his family’s life?
Here’s my thiking. Since the world has gone off the gold standard in the 1970′s I really don’t think the Gov. knows how much money is really in circulation or if by some chance they do know, I would think they would lie to us. Since the 700bil. is non-transparent who knows really how much money has gone out the window. Who is responsible for keeping tabs on it? Would they be capable of cooking the books? How many different books have been cooked that they (the Gov.) know what’s going on. My thinking has been that I have been spending and making funny money since the world has gone off the gold standard.
Print another billion, no one will know. /sar.