Very bad.
If we don't do something soon, everything will collapse! People will be out of work, our dollar will be worthless, the seas will boil, locusts, plagues...the whole nine yards!
WE HAVE TO DO "SOMETHING"!!!!!
Maybe we do need to do something. But is that something the first poison pill presented to us? We have a spending spree presented under the guise of a "stimulus" that is hundreds of pages long. Many of our elected officilas only have 2-3 days to read it all before voting on it. Now, I think I'm a fairly speedy reader, but in 3 days I might get 200 pages done. But legislators get this beast of a bill, laden with little bits of pork and ominously-worded nonsense to help make government even bigger, and the cry is just vote it in, don't worry about the details...after all, we need to do "something", don't we?
Think back to the 1920s and early 30s. Germany was in a state we may well find ourselves in soon. Their economy was destroyed. The Mark was pretty much useless, not even worth the paper it was printed on. "Something" had to be done. A slick-talking guy ran for office promising change and hope for the German people. Lots of well-meaning things but little in the way of what precisely he had in mind. Oh yeah, his name? Hitler.
Sure, you can argue Mein Kampf laid out all his plans. Maybe so, but at that time not too many Germans read it. I tried, it's a really challenging book, and pretty dry. Obama doesn't lay things out in the same fashion, but read a little and you see his motives are not really for the benefit of the common good.
You and I are staring in the face of a coming fascist state, a dictatorship brought in under the guise of being "for our own good".
Congress is going to pass a bill to spend trillions of dollars that don't currently exist on things that may not - heck, probably won't - do any good. When was the last time our govenrnment got involved in something that actually improved things? What will back these trillions of dollars? The Chinese? They're not really out for our best interests. They're going to use us to get on top, and if it means stepping on us to do it, then so be it.
I'm glad people have found what they have in the short time we've had to read the bill.
For example:
Pages 164-165 of the stimulus contain the following prohibitions on the use of $3.5 billion available for renovation of public or private college and university facilities.
(2) PROHIBITED USES OF FUNDS. No funds awarded under this section may be used
for - (C) modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities (i) used for
sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity;
or (ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are
subsumed in a religious mission; or construction of new facilities.
Forgive me for sounding alarmist, but that's awful discriminatory against free expression of religion. What difference does it make if the school buildings are used for teaching religious courses? It's a supposedly free country, students are free to study religion...or are they?
Then you find the dozens of other articles exposing little blurbs about a "Health Czar" (since when does America need a Czar?), money for little pet projects to sweeten corrupt politicians into voting for the Pork Monster...little hidden things supporters of Big Brother hope you and I never see.
It begs the question - do we descend on Washington now with our torches and pitchforks - or will it come to drums and fifes down the road?
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