I have had many questions about why I followed the State Of The Union Address (SOTU) with a post about The American Reinvestment And Recovery Act ("The Stimulus") when it is "old news". I do not agree with this because not only is "The Stimulus" still affecting each and every US Taxpayer, it will affect serveral GENERATIONS of US Taxpayers to come.
"The Stimulus" funds will be liberally distributed in the States and Districts of Members Of Congress who are up for re-election in 2010 IF THEY ARE DEMOCRAT. Think that it is an outrage that the entire USA is paying for Medicaid in Nebraska? Well, the funds of the entire USA are being used to support the re-election of Democrat candidates. Please pay attention as you will see funds from "The Stimulus" being announced publicly when they are applied to projects. When the election cycle begins in earnest, you will hear the candidates using the projects that are funded by "The Stimulus" as evidence that they are helping "get jobs" for the people in their respective districts and states.
Many pundits on the Republican side or on the Conservative side (no, these are not the same) are wondering out loud "If Barack H. Obama is so smart why is he doing this and that". When you hear this or a variation of it, you are hearing someone who is giving the POTUS the benefit of the doubt while wallowing in ignorance. Barack H. Obama is intelligent and is also committed to the Left's Agenda, and Barack H. Obama KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING. Barack H. Obama KNOWS that this time period of his Presidency presents an opportunity to fundamentally change the USA from a Constitutional Republic to something else. The first step in this process is to make the USA a de facto Socialist State, even if The Constitution is still paid Lip Service as part of the transformatory indoctrination of the American People.
The Democrat Party now has "The Stimulus", of which part is dedicated to cementing their agenda by winning elections for long enough to not only place laws that will weaken and fundamentally change the USA, but also to cause a downward spiral of Free Market Capitalism such that Socialism can step in and fill the void. By using funds from "The Stimulus" as bullet points in elections campaigns, the goal of The Left is to continue to have effective majority control. By the sheer amount of money that is needed to be obtained for the US Government to spend to fund "The Stimulus" (increased taxes, both direct and indirect while also increasing the money supply), the desired economic vulnerability will be created thus allowing the opportunity to push the USA deeper into Socialism than it is now.
SUMMARY: If for the promise made by the POTUS that our unemployment would stay below 8% we then MORTGAGED OUR FUTURE in The American Reinvestment And Recovery Act (mortgaging our future for this-why would anybody buy such an idea?), and it definitely FAILED in light of current unemployment and trends, why would anyone be unwise enough to follow any similar course of action?
This is why I posted on "The Stimulus". We're already deeply in trouble, people!!! The cost of "The Stimulus" has not even hit our pocketbooks yet, and like a thief with a stolen credit card, we are not even giving a second thought to paying the bill for all of this. The bill WILL be paid, both in terms of economic and political stablility, and if we forget the damage that has been done already we will only be fooling ourselves.
You may ask: where are The Democrats going to get the actual voters to vote for them in order to be re-elected? Did you hear the noise that Barack H. Obama made in the SOTU about "immigration Reform" and "securing our borders"? The idea there is to grant "Amnesty" i.e. make instantly legal all of the illegal immigrant population in the USA (20-30 million, possibly more), and propel all of the voters in that population to support Democrat candidates as a grateful response for that "Amnesty", which "Amnesty" surely will include "government benefits" as an incentive for those votes.
/rant off
