The new spending bill is not a stimulus package but a socialist package.
It’s nothing more than a field day for lobbyists and Washington bureaucrats to enjoy American taxpayer money.
Remember the change President Barack Obama spoke of on the campaign trail? It certainly isn’t the type of change most Americans anticipated. There are still those who blindly follow Obama because they don’t have a clue what the stimulus package really entails.
Americans need to wake up and speak up about this country’s new direction and new economic policies, or Obama and the new liberal majority will establish a socialistic economic policy in this country.
Socialism does not work. Why is it that Russia, driven to an economic downfall by communism, is better off since adopting capitalism? Why is China a top economic force in the world now that it has embraced free market enterprise? It is because capitalism works and is the best economic system that exists. America will fall just like Russia if the Obama administration allows this type of radical spending to continue.
Capitalism is what made this country great. If people work, they make money. If anyone does not appreciate the ideals of capitalism in the United States, there are plenty of other countries in which they can live.
Liberals enjoy criticizing this country while enjoying its benefits. If they could sit in communist Russia and endure the problems socialism gave that country, they might open their eyes to capitalism’s advantages.
The stimulus package will herald the downfall of America’s economic status if Democrats remain in power. Hopefully, America will wake up and realize that the principled and fiscally conservative Republican Party is the one that should be leading the country.
The recent move for massive governmental control to hand out money is absurd. Of course Americans would like to help everyone attain a good life, but this goal isn’t realistic. There will always be a lower, a middle and an upper class. But the left seems intent on bringing down anyone who works hard and earns a considerable amount of money.
Who is to say that the government can choose how much people can make or what they can do with their money? Creating jobs is the way to stimulate the economy, not handing out cash like tickets at a fair. A stimulus of perhaps $400 billion might be reasonable, but to pass a bill for $787 billion is simply outrageous.
As former President George Bush once said, “in a free market, there's going to be good times and bad times. That's how markets work. There will be ups and downs.”
Every generation has dealt with some type of economic problem. Bush’s conservative policies weren’t flawed simply because the economy crashed in his last term. But Obama has taken advantage of this false idea to scare people who have no idea how the economy works and pass this bogus package.
America had 52 consecutive months of job growth during Bush’s presidency, according to the Wall Street Journal. This was because of Republican policies, not Democratic spending habits. Anyone who forgoes blindly blaming Bush in favor of fairness will note that the economy began to slip in 2006 — the year the Democrats took back the House and Senate.
One can only hope this country will reverse its current misguided course. The Bush presidency brought the ideals of free market capitalism back to America, but sadly, those ideals are slipping away.
In the near future, Americans will come to embrace an honest leader who truly knows what is best for them and who believes in America’s core — capitalism.
Stimulus package is a socialist package
Published: Thursday, February 19, 2009
Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2009
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I'm aware of things currently and in the past with respect to our defense that would raise the hairs on most folks necks. Making the hard choices is what it's all about and the current administration has no stomach for it.
Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and others on the far left are known to be responsible for the mortgage crisis. They were running the agencies that pressured the banks to lend money to unqualified applicants. This began during the Carter administration which was before most of the students were born. Even though Bush disappointed many of his own party he's not entirely to blame for this economic situation.
As far as Haliburton is concerned, they're one of only a couple of companies in the entire world who do what they do. It's no wonder they received the contracts.
And as far as what you see on the television news, disregard it. They're driven solely by ratings, nothing more. The world isn't run on front-page meetings between heads of state or photo-ops with unfriendly dictators. It's done with back-room deals and under-the-table negotiations. That's how it REALLY works in every single country in the world. Finally, you can't legislate or tax a country out of a recession. The only way is to grow it out.
You simply ramble on about capitalism and yammer about Russia...
I'm all for balanced right and left wing journalism, but at least have facts and research.
Funny though, in your entire article, not once do you say exactly HOW and WHY the stimulus package is a socialist package. You merely defend Bush and talk about capitalism.
Besides, in my opinion, $787 billion to American citizens is alot better than $600 billion to a war which most Americans are against.
contra-ethical hedonism and pseudo-relativism, a society of “We’re in control now” and “You are politically incorrect.”We have seen this happen so many times before. France in the 1790’s. Russia after 1917. China, Cambodia, Nazi Germany, the fragments of Yugoslavia, Iran, and Afghanistan. Even from this list, there may seem to be at first glance a total mixing of types, from “left” to “right, from communism to pseudo-socialism to far-right fascism.We are at a point where the United States of America is close to turning into a totalitarian state and it is not something coming from a cadre of neo-Nazis or hard-core Klansmen, nor from a Communist Party with loyalties in Russia as was once a fear in our homes and schools that almost ran out of control and created a fascist nightmare in America. We are facing an even worse threat, one that is deep-rooted and now very strong, and it may turn America into precisely the type of fascist state that people feared in the 1950’s from the likes of Joseph McCarthy, except that its slogans and banners are quite unlike those of that era. This is the threat from the so-called radical liberalism of the “progressive” Democratic Party dictatorship that is now steamrolling its way through one act of legislation after another, Barack Obama as its very racially convenient and highly charismatic figurehead, and a mob of special interest factions pushing, pulling, and controlling – not by logic but by Brownian motion, the decisions of Congress and the Executive Branch – to do what it, the Mob, wants, because It, the Mob, is now dictating what is politically correct and incorrect, down to the smallest iota of thought, deed, and word.
This is one-sided? Perhaps this is the first time you have EVER read the Oracle? -Because 99.9% of the articles are pro-socialist, rediculous garbage. Put down the Kool-Aid! Way to use that education of yours - can't even spell disappointed..... Liberals... So open-minded their brains have fallen out.