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Stimulus camouflage for liberal agenda
Seth Stern
Issue date: 2/3/09 Section: Opinion
"Where is the outrage?" An e-mail from my father in early September opened with this question.
He spoke to the lack of response from my generation as the elected leadership of the nation further buried us in debt. George Washington said, "No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence." FYI, they are about finished burying tomorrow's generation's grandchildren in debt.
Since Nov. 4, an upswell of audacious hope has overtaken 53 percent of the nation's voting population. Obama, the Democrat-controlled legislature and all the elves in Santa's workshop are going to correct six years of Republican mistakes.
Placing your faith in the federal government to do anything right is a perfect exercise in stupidity in which any person of average intellect can participate.
Let's go way back: Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal rightfully deserve a (corrected) place in the history books. FDR enacted the New Deal to create jobs from nothing, and it failed.
Unfortunately, some folks prefer to pretend the New Deal worked, ignoring the fact that the process had failed when Hitler and Japan came calling, providing almost 100 percent employment for the nation and masking the failure of the New Deal.
Democrats pushed the mortgage industry to relax loan criteria and denied any responsibility for the consequences while denying problems existed within Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As a corollary, Democrats purchased the votes of lower income families and minorities then able to secure loans.
Republicans are equally responsible for the housing problem; they were calling for tighter regulation before the real estate bubble burst and they continued the idiotic trend of perpetually increasing federal budgets.
Complete and total withdrawal from interference in the economy would have been the right move. That would have allowed the Darwinian processes of the economy to run their course.
He spoke to the lack of response from my generation as the elected leadership of the nation further buried us in debt. George Washington said, "No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence." FYI, they are about finished burying tomorrow's generation's grandchildren in debt.
Since Nov. 4, an upswell of audacious hope has overtaken 53 percent of the nation's voting population. Obama, the Democrat-controlled legislature and all the elves in Santa's workshop are going to correct six years of Republican mistakes.
Placing your faith in the federal government to do anything right is a perfect exercise in stupidity in which any person of average intellect can participate.
Let's go way back: Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal rightfully deserve a (corrected) place in the history books. FDR enacted the New Deal to create jobs from nothing, and it failed.
Unfortunately, some folks prefer to pretend the New Deal worked, ignoring the fact that the process had failed when Hitler and Japan came calling, providing almost 100 percent employment for the nation and masking the failure of the New Deal.
Democrats pushed the mortgage industry to relax loan criteria and denied any responsibility for the consequences while denying problems existed within Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As a corollary, Democrats purchased the votes of lower income families and minorities then able to secure loans.
Republicans are equally responsible for the housing problem; they were calling for tighter regulation before the real estate bubble burst and they continued the idiotic trend of perpetually increasing federal budgets.
Complete and total withdrawal from interference in the economy would have been the right move. That would have allowed the Darwinian processes of the economy to run their course.
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Bdygard
Craig Hawley
posted 2/03/09 @ 1:55 AM MST
This is absolutely not a Stimulus plan and the Democraps and Libtards are doing what Rahm Emanuel and trying not to waste a crisis. He was right they are using the financial crisis to try to further the Liberal agenda instead of actually stimulate the economy. (Continued…)
Beef Rockmore
posted 2/03/09 @ 9:15 AM MST
Spot on!
"Change", it seems, meant debt.
Don't think for a moment that Obama et al think this will help the economy. They know very well that it will cause a depression. (Continued…)
Sneed Hearn
posted 2/03/09 @ 9:30 AM MST
An extremely short summary of aspects of the new deal that is now being emulated appears below. Note the opinion of FDR's own treasury secretary. Absent WWIII in the near future to fill in for WWII the latest New Deal will fail abysmally with there being a real chance the US will default on its enormous debt. (Continued…)
Arvensis
posted 2/03/09 @ 2:50 PM MST
Beef - you seem to understand the big picture; thank you.
What we have here is a horrific situation. Americans are so in love with Uncle Barry, that he can do no wrong. (Continued…)
Anonymous
posted 2/03/09 @ 9:44 PM MST
Just fyi: Obama's been president for all of what, three weeks?
Maybe all you know-it-alls know the future, but I for one, will actually let it OCCUR before I judge. (Continued…)
Craig Hawley
posted 2/03/09 @ 10:11 PM MST
This is also a systematic Democrat control issue. All parties want to retain power. The Democrats and Liberals have been doing it for decades by enslaving the poor in welfare prison. (Continued…)
Craig Hawley
posted 2/04/09 @ 7:39 PM MST
Congressman Jim Cooper did an interview and told the reporter that he had received quiet approval by the Obama Administration for voting against Nancy Pelosi's Pork Laden Spending Bill. (Continued…)
Ryan S.
Ryan
posted 2/05/09 @ 8:16 AM MST
QUOTE from article "I was under the impression that the new regime was bringing change. It smells the same. If you voted Republican or Democrat in the recent election, you share the blame. (Continued…)
Eye Poke
posted 2/05/09 @ 10:58 AM MST
Hawley,
Pork laden bills with pet projects could stimulate the economy, particularly if those projects fix and build our infrastructure, which puts Americans to work. (Continued…)
Craig Hawley
posted 2/05/09 @ 11:57 PM MST
In America you have the right to be wrong. Nice to see you excersising that right.
I offer alternatives as do Republicans. FYI I am a registered Independent. (Continued…)
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