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Today Nanny Pelosi spoke about the Democrat's agenda. She spoke about how the Republicans should pass a jobs bill. She praised President Obama for pushing the stimulus bill and promoting job growth. Well, I have to admit she sticks to her guns. However, that is where praises stop for me.
Yes, Nancy, it has been eleven weeks and the Republicans haven't worked on a jobs bill. If you pay attention to the movement which brought them to power, namely the Tea Party movement, they ought not bring up such a bill. While I am not a Tea Party member, I have been to two rallies to see what it was all about. One thing I did admire is that it seemed to be mostly built out of common sense. The govt can't employ us out of a depression. At least it can't long term anyway. For an explanation of that statement, please look for my coming article on our governments' dependency upon currency manipulation.
I don't think anyone will produce clear evidence specifically showing quantitative parameters of how effective or ineffective the stimulus bill was. I don't think it is debatable that it didn't do what the Democrats said it would, and it was probably more effective than the Republicans will admit. So there you have it, we spent nearly a trillion dollars of money we didn't have in the first place to produce results that can't be proven while leaving a nation still craving jobs. Brilliant, simply brilliant.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that we won't have a budget passed in 2011. Why am I so pessimistic? I think I have good reason. On one hand we have the Tea Party movement not willing to compromise their beliefs, threatening to vote out their own members if they find middle ground with the democrats. On the other hand, we have Nancy Pelosi and her minions using phrases such as the "middle ground is not acceptable", or they need to stick to the "higher ground of our values". Nancy herself used a phrase today that scares me, just a little while ago she actually praised the "morality of government programs". Once again she praised the POTUS for saying that we can't afford tax breaks for the rich because it increases the deficit. What a backwards way of looking at things. Lowering income does not necessarily increase the deficit. Maintaining spending levels (or increasing them) while cutting revenues increases the deficit.
Why is it so difficult to understand that our government has never produced a dime? The money our govt survives on is taken by force through taxation. Remembering such a simple fact would serve our nation well. While the speech by Nancy Pelosi today must have sounded good to those looking for help, it was built on lies.
Firstly, where is government moral? The amount of fighting taking place to define the morals of government should prove that our federal government can not pretend to speak for all of its citizens when it comes to morality. For instance, I don't think AIDS in Africa is a problem our government should be worrying about. Don't get me wrong, I support the Red Cross and other such agencies. I just don't feel it is morally acceptable to force me to give money to a nation across an ocean. How is it a moral principle to steal money from a small business owner who, having worked his or her whole career in order to build something from scratch, finds themselves taxed at such high rates that they would have been better off finding laziness half way through the process? My old boss fought this internal battle all the time. There is a point at which expanding, hiring, and increasing his salary made no sense because of the tax penalties. How is this a free economy? How is this fair? How does this encourage a higher rate of employment? I fail to see how such a tax scheme encourages anything but more corporatism and dependence. How is it moral to invade countries because our beliefs are self-proclaimed to be more valuable than theirs? How is it moral to avoid telling the population of America how the war will be paid for? How is it morally acceptable to blow up Iraq without paying for it, and then pay to rebuild it, without paying for it. Especially since we are using private contractors more and more often, so now we have corporations making billions off of an unjust and illegal war. (Illegal because we never declared war, and the congress illegally gave the executive branch authority it does not have.) How is it moral to steal money from those in Colorado to help pay for floods in Mississippi? Isn't that why the Red Cross and such entities exist? America has proven over and over again how giving we are. Why is the government (Sen. Charles Schumer D-NY) promoting federally funded cancer research? What if I don't have cancer and don't want to pay for it? I have a cancer charity on my blog, it isn't like I don't support the fight, but when did the government get the right to choose the winners and losers receiving such funding? For that matter, why am I paying for a federal education dept. when I don't have kids? How are these things moral? We don't need our government to steal our money in order to help those in need. All it does is feed the never-ending growth of the bureaucratic mess we have allowed to fester in Washington. They are only important because we believe them when they say they are important!
You want a moral government? It seems to me you have two choices. You either support a government based on a particular religion, or you accept that life is not fair and support a government that places the ideas of individual liberty, property rights, and common defense as its only priorities. So the Republicans haven't even started on a jobs bill, hooray for them! You want a jobs bill? How about a flat tax? How about abolishing the IRS? How about instituting a VAT instead of an income tax? How about public funding of campaigns so we can start to curb corporatism? How about term limits? I don't think all of those would fly, and truth be told I don't even like all of them. However, those ideas at least move us in the direction of an economy and nation that starts to remember what freedom is. The speech by Nancy Pelosi today did nothing except encourage dependence on the government. It really is that simple.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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