Say NO to 780,000,000,000.00

The battle lines have been drawn between sanity and insanity. No one else in the United States of America but the Federal Government would ever dare spend so much money without any idea how to pay for it. How do you stimulate an economy by borrowing an astronomical amount from China and/or by printing it in the basement? You can't.

The number is a "compromised" 780,000,000,000.00. Not 780 billion, or 780b. 780,000,000,000.00. Take a good look at that number. If the idea of government spending its way into prosperity worked, why didn't we spend this much when times were good?

Isn't anyone looking at past results? We passed this idiotic TARP bill and the government doesn't even know where the money went. Can you trust the government with a reputation for irresponsible spending with that kind of money? Would you let an alcoholic run a liquor store or a drug addict a pharmacy?

And what's with our President? Every day he gets on the mike and says how bleak our circumstances are. What happened to his campaign of hope, and optimism? I call what he's doing right now scare tactics. He's trying to scare us into supporting this stimulus bill as our only hope of recovery.

I hope you're with me when you say you don't believe it. You don't believe the government is more capable of spending your tax dollars than you are. You don't believe that shouldering generations of Americans with massive debt is an appropriate response for difficult times. You don't believe that these congressman and congresswomen (who just voted themselves in a pay increase THREE TIMES the annual norm) have our best interests at heart, and/or know what they're doing.

If so, it's not enough to sit back and complain. We really need to make our voices heard.
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Or just call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your Senators and your representative. Tell them what you think. Tell your friends/family/enemies to do the same. This is more than just another stupid bill in Congress - this is our future.

Blagojevich and Madoff - Wrongly Singled Out?

Governor Rod Blagojevich is being impeached for allegedly auctioning off a US Senate seat to the highest bidder. Bernard Madoff is going on trial for an alleged ponzi scheme, where money is brought in, and returns on investment on paid with the money of other contributors, rather than the merits of the investment.

Why are these guys being singled out? Most Congressman vote on bills not for the bill's merit, but by the amount of pork that gets fed into a bill that has nothing to do with the bill. That's how the bailout passed. The first bailout was voted down. Then it was voted in because congressmen were promised money in their district for various programs that had nothing to do with the bailout. Isn't that selling your vote? How does that differ from Blagojevich? How is it wrong wrong to sell the job, but OK to act that way once you have the job.

As for a 50 billion dollar ponzi scheme: How many trillions of dollars have gone into Social Security, where we pay into a system that transfer the money to someone else? The scheme has been going on longer than Madoff's and is tremendously larger, but one of these days that scam is going to run out of money too. I doubt anyone is going to stand trial for that one.