Think I Was Joking?
Nancy Pelosi said: "[w]e won the election. We wrote the bill."
Let's have another look at the description of "pork," the shape and texture of the spending that is going to put our kids in hock:
$50 million of Nat'l Endowment for the Arts -- lots of "jobs" there.
$1 billion for Amtrack -- so they can just lose it?
$2 billion for child care subsidies -- wonder which party the beneficiaries of this vote for?
$400 million for global warming research -- if you listen to Gore, its already too late.
$2.4 billion for carbon capture project -- but only demonstration projects, the spending still to come.
$650 million for analog/digital conversion coupons. Guess to which constituents that goes? Why you sitting home watching gameshows, Oprah and Ellen, anyway? Not working? Oh no, that's right, you need to TiVo it.
$600 million so the U.S. government can buy new cars. Why? are last year's too old? Is this an indirect GM-giveaway? A sop to the UAW ... getting closer.... Do you know that Uncle Sam already spends $3 billion a year on new cars?
$66 billion on education -- and "no recipient ... shall use such funds to provide financial assistance to students to attend private elementary or secondary school." Ok, that's a political statement if there ever was one: only public school teachers will be hired using these funds -- members of the Teacher's Union. Mr. Obama, why do your kids go to private school? And the rest of Congress and Senate -- and members of Cabinet?
$252 billion on "income transfer payments." Huh? That is not stimulus -- there are no jobs here, it is theft: taking money from taxpayers to give to those earning nothing at all. $81 billion to medicaid; $36 billion for wider unemployment benefits; $20 billion for food stamps; and $81 billion for for the earned income credit -- money for people who do not pay taxes.
Where's the jobs? Where's the stimulus to get America working and producing goods and services here? Where's the long-term tax payer getting any incentive?
The Wall Street Journal calculates that onle 12 cents in every dollar of this spending bill "can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus," and even little of that will help jump start the economy.
So, with the exception of two pin-heads from Maine and Arlen Spector, no Republican has voted for this. And why should they? They had absolutely no hand in the drafting of it. The GOP was prevented from even attending the sessions.
Did I forget $7 billion in public housing? $30 billion in Cobra extension? $1 billion in nutrition programs? This is Democrat porn: absolutely everything to every greedy, grasping do-nothing hand out there that happens to vote left.
So the Democrats wrote the bill .... The fingerprints on this fiasco, this collosal grab of wealth is Democrat. So too will the failure be. It makes me physically nauseous to know my kids will have to pay for this and there is almost nothing I can do about it.
Mr Obama: you promised transparency. Why are these sessions closed from viewing? Why is TV not allowed into the drafting sessions? You promised bi-partisanship. That amounted to begging Republicans to sign onto something which they had ZERO input to. You promised common sense would return to Washington. Pork is common sense? You promised to lead ... and yet you let Pelosi write this scab of a bill?
And now Senator Harkin wants to bring back the "fairness doctrine." And fairly ONLY apply it to talk radio. Why might that be? Because the print and TV media are in the tank for your causes, and talk radio is the only independent source of debate in the United States? Because you want to muzzle free speech? Your transparent posturings would make Pravda look like the model of journalistic integrity. You make me puke. And for this we have fought for 250 years -- the beacon of hope and freedom? Speaking of Jefferson and Franklin ... when ever you happen to pass from this plane of existence to the next and meet up with these gentlemen, Mr. Harkin, I'd avoid them if I were you. You see, they will have a bone to pick with you ... and you, obviously, will not have the courage to stand up to them.
Weasel.
Let's have another look at the description of "pork," the shape and texture of the spending that is going to put our kids in hock:
$50 million of Nat'l Endowment for the Arts -- lots of "jobs" there.
$1 billion for Amtrack -- so they can just lose it?
$2 billion for child care subsidies -- wonder which party the beneficiaries of this vote for?
$400 million for global warming research -- if you listen to Gore, its already too late.
$2.4 billion for carbon capture project -- but only demonstration projects, the spending still to come.
$650 million for analog/digital conversion coupons. Guess to which constituents that goes? Why you sitting home watching gameshows, Oprah and Ellen, anyway? Not working? Oh no, that's right, you need to TiVo it.
$600 million so the U.S. government can buy new cars. Why? are last year's too old? Is this an indirect GM-giveaway? A sop to the UAW ... getting closer.... Do you know that Uncle Sam already spends $3 billion a year on new cars?
$66 billion on education -- and "no recipient ... shall use such funds to provide financial assistance to students to attend private elementary or secondary school." Ok, that's a political statement if there ever was one: only public school teachers will be hired using these funds -- members of the Teacher's Union. Mr. Obama, why do your kids go to private school? And the rest of Congress and Senate -- and members of Cabinet?
$252 billion on "income transfer payments." Huh? That is not stimulus -- there are no jobs here, it is theft: taking money from taxpayers to give to those earning nothing at all. $81 billion to medicaid; $36 billion for wider unemployment benefits; $20 billion for food stamps; and $81 billion for for the earned income credit -- money for people who do not pay taxes.
Where's the jobs? Where's the stimulus to get America working and producing goods and services here? Where's the long-term tax payer getting any incentive?
The Wall Street Journal calculates that onle 12 cents in every dollar of this spending bill "can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus," and even little of that will help jump start the economy.
So, with the exception of two pin-heads from Maine and Arlen Spector, no Republican has voted for this. And why should they? They had absolutely no hand in the drafting of it. The GOP was prevented from even attending the sessions.
Did I forget $7 billion in public housing? $30 billion in Cobra extension? $1 billion in nutrition programs? This is Democrat porn: absolutely everything to every greedy, grasping do-nothing hand out there that happens to vote left.
So the Democrats wrote the bill .... The fingerprints on this fiasco, this collosal grab of wealth is Democrat. So too will the failure be. It makes me physically nauseous to know my kids will have to pay for this and there is almost nothing I can do about it.
Mr Obama: you promised transparency. Why are these sessions closed from viewing? Why is TV not allowed into the drafting sessions? You promised bi-partisanship. That amounted to begging Republicans to sign onto something which they had ZERO input to. You promised common sense would return to Washington. Pork is common sense? You promised to lead ... and yet you let Pelosi write this scab of a bill?
And now Senator Harkin wants to bring back the "fairness doctrine." And fairly ONLY apply it to talk radio. Why might that be? Because the print and TV media are in the tank for your causes, and talk radio is the only independent source of debate in the United States? Because you want to muzzle free speech? Your transparent posturings would make Pravda look like the model of journalistic integrity. You make me puke. And for this we have fought for 250 years -- the beacon of hope and freedom? Speaking of Jefferson and Franklin ... when ever you happen to pass from this plane of existence to the next and meet up with these gentlemen, Mr. Harkin, I'd avoid them if I were you. You see, they will have a bone to pick with you ... and you, obviously, will not have the courage to stand up to them.
Weasel.
posted by Zaphod at Thursday, February 12, 2009
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