I have in front of me the Conference Report that accompanies H.R.1, a.k.a. the Stimulus Bill, a.k.a. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This weighty tome consists of 781 pages. It lists all the government departments, agencies, and programs and the exhorbitant sums of millions and billions of dollars that have been allocated thereto.
Assuming that my title premise is false and that our fearless leaders/brainless followers did read the bill, there is no way that they could have a thorough understanding of the allocations made to these departments, agencies and programs. They would have had to remember the hundreds of acts of law passed during the last 100 years or so, as so many are referenced in the bill. Also, as quickly as it was crammed down our throats, no one could possibly have had the time to read it and fully comprehend it.
How were the figures calculated? For example, why does the "Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program" get another $650,000,000 compared to the "Economic Development Assistance Programs" that will only get $150,000,000? Then there's an additional amount of $1,000,000,000 to count how many people we have in our country and where they live. It seems to me that we could pinch pennies here and skip the census this year.
Obviously, the list goes on in order to total $1 Trillion and I'm having difficulty understanding the amounts given and what exactly they're being given to.
One thing that I've noticed in reading this Conference Report is that much of the money is in the form of grants. Grants aren't funds that can be readily accessed by the average American citizen. One must apply for them, and careful wording is necessary in order to be considered. Also, the applicant must be engaged in an activity that can be supported/endorsed by one of the government departments, agencies or programs. The average citizen isn't going to receive any help from the stimulus bill that has become (another bad) law.
Further, unless small and large businesses can get creative and fabricate pursuits in research, experimentation, or the arts, it is doubtful that business will benefit from any of the stimulus monies from grants.
Our government is officially a failure, as is the obamadent, and anyone who supports such idiocy, with the passing of this law. Businesses need to be helped in the form of a freeze on all taxes, and otherwise need to be left alone. This includes General Motors, all banks, insurance companies and investment houses. The free market must be allowed to be free!
Personal taxes also should be freezed. I've said this before, but the Fair Tax is needed NOW! The obamadent refuses to address important economic issues that are vital to the continuation of our country as we have come to enjoy it for all these years. He's promoting his own socialist agenda and will be the downfall of the U.S. if he and his minions are not stopped.
read more about the fair tax at: www.fairtax.org
If the government is a failure, then what do we care? Are we going to keep going to the polls on behalf of it until we overthrow it? It's pretty clear it will spend our money as it pleases without consideration for us one way or the other, so obessing over what it does or does not do is wasted effort. If one means to be subversive, then let the subverting begin. Heck, the left's got a big head start on us. the left is good at ' street politics'. We need to be.
ReplyDeleteThe left is good at undermining education for its ideological purposes. We need to get in on the act. The left monopolizes the media. What can we do? Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will a revolution. Being a born again Christian I suspect the 'mother of all revolutions (or is that resurrections)' will happen long before our rinky-dink one does, but we can give the left a few 'bad hair' days in the meantime.
The $60 trillion question is this: How DO we subvert the current regime? The socialists have the media, public education, and, I believe, the U.S. monetary system (the Federal Reserve)where certain capitalists gain by willingly participating.
ReplyDeleteSubversion must be performed en masse, perhaps by withdrawing from participation. For conservative states, this means succession; for individuals, this means severing ties to the government via taxes, for example.
The trick is to find enough patriots and leaders who would be willing to do it.
Without severity, it's merely a cat and mouse game where no one wins, and advances come and go. There is no fear in our current leaders, and that must be the first step.