Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:56:16 PM
Future generations are going to ask the question, “Did they know what they were doing?” For a large portion of our country, the answer would be, “No”. For a minority of our country the answer would be, “Yes”. Unfortunately, there are far more no’s than yes’s. The Democrats have sold this spending bill as a “stimulus bill”. Those that believe that Democrat politicians tell the truth took that story hook, line and sinker. For those who do not follow politics or government, they believed what the media said and the media is the propaganda arm of the Democrat party. So, a very large percentage of the country believes that the Congress actually did something to combat the recession. They were sold a pig in a poke.
As people finally learn what is in the bill, they turn against the bill. This was happening to the Democrats during the short time the bill was before Congress. That is why they had to rush it through without debate or allowing anyone the time to read it. The Democrats that voted for the bill have admitted that they did not read the bill. They had no real idea what was in the bill. They voted for the bill because their leadership said that they should vote for the bill. Now, I do not know about you, but that is not why I sent my Senators or Congressman to Congress. I sent them there to make the best decisions for the United States of America in my absence. I expect them to read every bill and make informed decisions on what is best. I may not agree with them on all their choices, but if that is the process they follow I have little to object to. I have a big objection when one of my Senators or my Congressman votes on a bill because someone tells them to do so. That is not their job. If I wanted a rubber stamp in Congress, I would have purchased a rubber stamp and sent that to Congress instead of a Congressman. It would have been a lot cheaper to maintain.
I do not know how the Democrat Senators and Congressmen will be able to face the voters in 2010 and tell them why they did not do their job on this massive spending bill. If all the bill did was spend wildly on all the Democrat pet projects, it would still be a terrible bill, but one I could live with. What this bill does is impose socialism on our medical system and some other systems as well. We are still finding out all of the socialistic dreams that the Democrats have had for the last 40 years that are contained in the bill. The reason we are still finding them out is that they were hidden deep within the bill to make them difficult to find. If they were easy to find, they would have been taken out by Republicans. By hiding them they were able to slip them by the unsuspecting dunces, Specter, Collins and Snowe.
When the voters elected Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, they voted for change. They are getting change in this bill. They are getting more change than any American ever dreamed possible even three months ago. They are getting so much changes that the country that we have come to know as the United States might even cease to exist as the United States. It might still have the name, United States, but it would not have the soul of the United States. The United States has a soul of individualism and adventure. Those have been taken out by this bill and replaced by the nanny state of socialism. Socialism will take the soul right out of the country and make us a second rate backwater just like France or Italy. If we become a second rate backwater, we likely will have someone take us over. Second rate backwaters do not have enough gumption to fight back and win.
If I sound pessimistic I am sorry. I am usually always optimistic. But, having a Democrat in the White House and huge Democrat majorities in the House and Senate leaves me cold. There is not a lot to be optimistic about when thinking about what those people could do to my beloved country in the next two years. Then, I would only be able to re-elect my Republican Congressman. That is not much help in regaining the country.