Ben Stafford
Emergency Stimulus?
Last week congressional Democrats unveiled their $825 Billion dollar ‘stimulus’ package. Some big ticket items in this “emergency” bill are:$600 million for the federal government to buy new cars*
$650 million for DTV conversion coupons
$50 million for the National Endowment of Arts
$200 million to go toward planting grass on the National Mall*I wonder if those cars will be Detroit-made.Democrats aren’t the only ones who engage in wasteful spending. But whenever it’s done the plunderers ought to be called out on it.
Comment by Steve Hogan on 19 January 2009:
Let’s see how well I make out with this brilliant stimulus plan:1. I don’t need a new car, so evidently I’m helping to pay for someone else’s wheels. At the same time, it provides an incentive for Detroit to churn out even more of these clunkers at taxpayer expense.2. I don’t watch TV. I don’t even own a TV. Why am I being forced to fund a DTV transition I won’t use? If the couch potatoes can’t watch American Idol in high definition until they buy a converter box, why is that my problem?3. What clause in the Constitution gives the government the authority to take my money and give it to “artists”? Funny, I can’t find it anywhere.4. $200M for grass? Congress must be smoking grass if they think this is worth it.
Comment by Jacob Steelman on 20 January 2009:
This is just more of the same legalized but immoral plunder of some and redistribution of the booty to others. Nothing has or will likely change until we make a real change from a command and control economy & society to a truly free economy & society. This is the real change we need – stop the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop the empire building, eliminate the Federal Reserve and allow free banking and private currency to replace the state owned central banking system, drastically eliminate government agencies and reduce spending, drastically eliminate government regulations, stop the taxation and allow the free market and free society to re-build the wealth destroyed by governmen plunder.,
Comment by eleclociopy on 9 October 2009:
It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place
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Comment by Jacob Steelman on 10 October 2009:
eleclociopy – the problem is government and the solution is to dismantle government starting with the Fed, the military involvement beyond our borders, taxes, expenditures, regulation
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