Posted by
OldRelayer on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:57:31 AM
Last night I treated my self to a T-Bone steak, it is a rare event, mostly we eat chicken. I charcoal grilled it on my 6 dollar Walmart grill and it was a wonderful meal. I then came upstairs to watch what was going on with the Porkulus package just in time to see the traitor Susan Collins take the floor to justify why she is acting like a Democrat and how great this piece of crap legislation is. I had all I could do to keep my dinner down what a disgraceful representative we have here from Maine. I am so tired of hearing we need to do something, the government hasn't gotten much right, never mind a package as big as this one, with all its waste, inflation causing and deficit spending. Doing nothing would be better. A little known event in American history is the depression of 1920. Harding was President and didn't have a clue what to do so he did nothing, by 1921 the depression was over and it ushered in almost 9 years of properity known as the roaring 20's. Compare that to what Hoover and FDR tried from 1929 to 1941, there is nothing wrong with doing nothing, it was mostly not 100% but mostly government that got us here, we don't need more government meddling. So the vote was as expected 61 yes and 36 nos, right down party lines except for 3 Rinios Collins, Snowe and Spector. Spector has the most to loose he is up for reelection in 2010, Collins 2014 and Snowe 2012, might explain why they are keeping a low profile. Arlen Spector nearly lost the primary to a true conservative by about 1% point, next time he is toast. They are pushing for a final vote at 12 noon today, the faster the better they know the American people don't want this and it is being crammed down our throat. Collins talked about a 780 Billion dollar package and under here breath, it will be a little larger, I have no clue where the other money is being spent but it is now 838 Billion, I am sure it will be a Trillion before we know it and then add the interest.
I have gone on and on about the few simple and with very little cost things that could be done. Not much in this bill helps small business, even though they give it lip service or to the American tax payer again a lot of words but most of that is for illegal aliens and people who generally don't pay taxes anyway, how does it help us that pay taxes, in no way, is the correct answer. So there will be many more rounds of this stimulus kind of thing coming, putting us further in debt to the Chinese and when they can't borrow any more they will just print it. Hopefully we can stop the madness here but I certainly doubt it, the Congress didn't get its entire wish list and they will be back in the name of stimulus for more.
I am old and my only vested interest in this is my grandchildren, people that didn't have any kind of say, not that we did either, they will be paying for this and the coming packages that will entirely ruin our free market economy. China has the message, why do you think they have the money to lend us, in only a few years the Democrats have done what the Russians couldn't do, made our country very close to a communist country, complete with government running all the business and of course making a complete mess of it. It doesn't work, as recently as the 1990's it was tried in Japan, only leaving them with massive debt and still the problems exist and the debt needs to be paid down.
We know and they in congress know what works, it is all just a big ponzi scheme to take money from a few by promising them rewards that will never come. Hold on to your wallet or get into a black market business so you can keep your money, otherwise Obama and company will spend your money faster than a drunken sailor.