Daily Rant Part 2 – February 6, 2009
February 6, 2009
There is too much floating around in my head to limit my rant to one today. After listening to the radio all day, Rush’s show with his guest host, Sean’s show, Levin’s show, I can’t believe that some Republicans are not listening. Perhaps it is because liberal weenies like Olympia Snowe of and Susan Collins, both of Maine and both Republicans In Name Only keep getting re-elected. We would be better represented if they lost to Democrats next election… but I digress.
These two turncoats do not deserve to be called Republicans. They often vote with Democrats on many bills anyway, and this “Stimulus” bill, which has grown to over $1 Trillion, will probably pass the Senate with their votes. If that happens, conservatives need to do a full court press to unseat them next election. They could switch parties and the results would be the same.
How Much Is Enough?
First it was $700 Billion for the stimulus that grew to over $1 Trillion. How much is enough? And if this bill is so important to stimulate the economy, why is there very little in there that will do so? Most of it is pork that Democrats have been wanting to pay for pet projects. They want to eat the whole pig all in one bite! Actually, they ARE the pigs! Oink, oink!
The Huffington Post has an article with the entire bill, all 647 pages of it. I tried to grab it off their site, but was unsuccessful. Besides, it starts with a flawed premise that our economy is the worst since the great depression. Bull! There are also links to summaries of the bill in the article. If you look at the programs, many are liberal causes like alternative energy projects… not something that is going to significantly boost the economy. It’s more throwing a bone to the environmental crowd who support Democrats. This is what our congressmen and women have agreed to spend our money on?
Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania is another potential traitor. He was also in the meeting with Snowe and Collins while Harry Reid was shopping for votes to avoid a FiIibuster on the “Porkulus” bill. If this thing goes, we will actively campaign against any Republican who supports it.
Even the buget office, run by Democrats, say this bill is a turkey. But Obama wants something, so we are going to create a new bumper sticker:
“Obama – From Bad To Worse”
This is in honor of the bailout and stimulus that he supported. Remember, in another month, this economy is his. And when this piece of crap bill fails to do what they are promising, Democrats will be on the hook. Republicans who oppose this will be in a good position in the 2010 election. They could even regain the majority in both houses if this fails as miserably as we think it will. People will be really ready for “change”!
Credit Card Forgiveness Programs
All I hear on the radio are advertisements for clearing up consumer debt through these credit corporations. As someone who filed for bankruptcy many years ago, I can tell you there is nothing honorable about this. For years we ran up consumer debt on credit cards until we owed so much, there was no way we could pay it back. We filed for bankruptcy and it ruined my credit for 10 years afterward.
If I had learned the lesson it would be one thing. But did that teach me anything? NO! Several years later I went out and did it again. It took me another 3 years to clean that mess up. I was on my own so the amount was smaller, but the result of not managing my money was the same.
What can we expect when our leaders are spending into the trillions, money they don’t have and will need to borrow or print. How responsible is that? People watch our so-called “leaders” and follow their lead. There is no responsibility from anyone. “It’s not my fault,” is the current outcry.
Back to the debt forgiveness. A blog called Sound Money Matters explains this phenomenon:
Why Credit Card Debt Forgiveness is Bad
Simply forgiving up to 40% of credit card debt is bad for three reasons:
- This debt was accrued by choice. The typical debt is not the result of a medical emergency or falling home values. It’s a result of people buying stuff they can’t afford and then deciding not to pay off the bill at the end of the month. People who have their credit card debt forgiven without going through some kind of difficult process, like bankruptcy, won’t learn to budget. They’ll just wind up in this situation all over again.
- We already have a system to forgive credit card debt. They call it bankruptcy. If you qualify, judges can reduce or eliminate credit card debt. If you don’t, then you get put into a payment plan. This plan applies to the types of situations where people would file bankruptcy, but without the pain or the process.
- Banks don’t need the government’s permission to write down losses. They can do that it already, but they want the government to change accounting rules so that writing down credit card losses is advantageous to the banks. So, now the banks won’t learn a lesson either. No one made them issue those credit cards. They knew the risks, and they should accept the consequences.
This is part of the bailout! You and I are paying for this with tax money!
Al Franken Is A Big Fat Idiot
The fact that Democrats let Al Franken steal his election and are seating him proves they have no integrity. To them it is all about winning, not about fairness. It is insulting to me that they will count more votes in a state than there are voters and not demand a special election. Al Franken is a low-life scum bag who failed on Air America but did not go down with the ship!
Why Are All The Statesmen Southerners?
Seems to me that policitians are from the north and statesmen are from the south. Why is that? Country gentlemen? All the Senators and Congressmen who called in to the talk radio shows this morning were from southern states like Virginia and Kentucky, and all were against the stimulus package. Unfortunately there are not enough of them to stop this catasprophe. Ask yourself, how will we pay for this? If they print money then what’s in your wallet will be worth less. Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
Keep Blaming Bush
Whatever happened to “the buck stops here”? Obama and his followers are still trying to blame Bush for the current climate. Why is it then for the first 6 years he was in office we enjoyed record growth and a booming economy? It was only when Democrats came into office for the last 2 years that we started to have problems. But people didn’t see that, and now we have ALL Democrats running the 3 branches of government. It sucks for the 50% of us who DIDN’T vote for this.
Rahm’s “Opportunity” Hurts The Rest of Us
This stimulus bill is being hastily enacted just as Rahm Emanuel predicted. He said Obama would take advantage of these bad situations and get legislation passed that they would normally have a hard time getting through. The rhetoric that “we have not seen an economy like this since the great depression” (truth is, since the Carter administration… this is nothing like the depression) and great minds like Pelosi say we are going to lose “500 million jobs a month if this doesn’t get passed” (though we only have 125 million or so in the workforce! What an ASS!) is fear mongering of the worst sort and is meant to scare people into calling their representatives asking to get this bill passed… It’s not really working. Otherwise there wouldn’t be so much resistance and this bill would have been passed quickly.
Fairness Doctrine
Finally, the fairness doctrine is nothing of the sort. What it is, is an attempt to silence political commentary that goes against what liberals want to hear. Remember when Hillary Clinton said opposition was patriotic? And remember when Democrats were talking about rights of the minority party… when they were the minority party? Ask yourself, what will it COST?
- FedUpEditor
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