Need An Outlet, This Is It

Right now the news is dominated by the stimulus package being passed in the congress. I would like to register my complaint against it. I think that everything we've been told so far is ridiculous. I guess I got most upset when over the lunch hour I heard that in negotiations today the package was reduced to $790,000,000,000. Amazing to me since last week it was at just over $750,000,000,000. We're throwing Billions around like it's no big thing. I read articles that list all these stupid programs getting money 30 million for this, 300 million for that. And the thing that always bothers me most is that it only ever adds up to a couple billion dollars. There's hundreds of billions of dollars that are going who-knows-where. We actually do, but they're not being discussed, nationalized health-care and other nationalization projects that instead of being voted on for their merit are coming into existence simply because we fund them. Unbelievable.

And the kicker WCBM reported today that because of the reduction (I'm paraphrasing closely), "Unfortunately, President Obama won't get quite as many tax cuts as he promised." This is unreal. I love that the President said the other night that "the government was the only institution left with the resources to put an end to the crisis." Last I checked we were in the hole when it came to our national debt. So when he says the government has the resources, what he means is they're the only institution that doesn't have anyone stopping them from over-extending themselves. Themselves being us. They're spending our money, strapping our futures, all while not providing a real answer.

This legisislation is going to have long-term dramatic impact on the American way of life.

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Ok, so I usually don't comment on political things like this on this blog. I'm in no way endorsing a political party or agenda. Just expressing my opinion and the way I see things. I'd prefer to be wrong about my prediction of the future, but I'm afraid I'm not.

--Ben