Posted by
Real Guy on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:33:36 PM
They are indeed who we thought they were – the Obama Administration. One bad idea after another. Spending our money like drunken sailors (however, as one columnist was reminded, sailors spend their own money, so he offered apologies to drunken sailors everywhere). While they propose and back lousier and lousier ideas on a daily basis and intrude routinely on our personal freedoms, the Obama administration marches on.
But here’s the rub. An addict needs enablers – other people who make destructive or insane choices possible. Our current enablers are in Congress – the Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Frank, Hoyer, Murtha, Boxer, Feinstein cabal. Only with a level of collective ignorance (or malice) that is absolutely stunning in its breadth and depth, could a body charged with the responsibility of appropriating funds for the federal budget decide that we were in dire enough straits to justify borrowing 100% more money for this fiscal year than are scheduled to bring in. That’s right. We’re getting a little less than $2 trillion in projected revenue for this year and are borrowing over $1.8 trillion. Try that at your house. Then try to do it again next year.
IT WAS NECESSARY! WE HAD JUST HAD 8 YEARS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION! WE WERE FIGHTING UNNECESSARY WARS! THE HOUSING MARKET WAS COLLAPSING! THE AUTO COMPANIES ARE COLLAPSING! THE BANKS ARE COLLAPSING! WE HAD TO BORROW THE MONEY TO WASH THE STENCH OF A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION OUT OF THE COUNTRY! WE HAD TO PROP UP STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SO TEACHERS, FIREFIGHTERS, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT WORKERS DON’T HAVE TO SUFFER CUTBACKS LIKE THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAS TO!
It’s all HOGWASH. You’ve just had your sky is falling moment and most of us survived. To those of you who have lost jobs you have my sympathies, but your only help is an economic recovery.
I’ve got news. You won’t get that recovery with this administration and this congress. They’re not done spending yet. They want to take over Health Care under some idea that the takeover will save the economy. WHAT???? Health Care reform will save the economy???? How’s that? There’s some convoluted logic somewhere about this (that I don’t believe) that starts with getting those poor 40 million uninsured people covered.
Now, I don’t know how you do your math, but my math tells me that insuring 40 million more people costs more. There’s no logical stretch, no credible business model, and no amount of stupid Democratic rhetoric that will convince me that having 40 million Americans outside the health insurance system has caused all of our economic problems, and that putting those same 40 million people in a health insurance program will balance our budget. The notion that this is how we solve our economic problems is illogical on its face and no amount of twisted rationale will convince me otherwise. I am convinced, however, that this is a ploy to get an edge in the number of loyal Democratic voters -- possibly even 40 million new grateful ones.
Back to my original point – The Addicted Obama Administration and The Enablers in Congress need a remedy. Step One is to Take the Enablers out in 2010. We can unelect every Democrat in the House of Representatives and roughly one third of he Democrats in the Senate in 2010. This first step in the effort requires that everybody vote. Those of you who had no enthusiasm for the 2008 election have to get out and vote. Disaffected Democrats have to get out and vote. Libertarians have to get out and vote. Young people who have taken and passed real math classes have to get out and vote. And people who voted last time have to get out and vote.
Vote ‘em out or shut up.