Feb 06 2009
$78 Billion Dollars!!
It doesn’t matter what party or what persons are responsible. How can the American people trust our own government, when the Treasury Department gives $78 Billion more than it was supposed to during the dispersal of the first stimulus package. Now the Department is run by a guy who doesn’t pay his taxes unless exposed. Can you really name one person in this current administration we can trust? Another cabinet appointee’s family hasn’t paid their taxes until she was nominated. Suddenly her husband “found” that he still owed past taxes and paid them just before she was nominated. MIraculous discovery, don’t you think? This would have to be a record number of nominees with some kind of trouble but not the two Republicans he has in his cabinet, at least not yet. Who knows what is yet to come?
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The saying, often used but because of overuse with diminished significance, is still true. There are currently no checks and balances in our government because both Houses of Congress and the President are all from the same party. The “stimulus” package is the first example of absolute power run amok. I have heard no objective evaluator of the package say that it is a good idea or a bill that will do what it is supposed to do. The President is doing a good job of going through the motions of an attempt at bi-partisanship but without any serious attempt at action, just appearance.
Seventy-eight billion dollars given without a vote of Congress, given without oversight. How can anyone make a seventy-eight billion dollar “mistake?” There is no one in power to stop the madness except us. Call your Congressmen and Senators, particularly your Senators. Scream bloody murder. It is still supposed to be “government for the people, by the people” but if we are silent we have no one to blame but ourselves. Anyone who believes that this bill is going to help the little guy or create any jobs other than government jobs is either not reading or is smoking something really funny.
