
The House stimulus package moving through committee illustrates how the left is using the economic stimulus bill as cover to achieve their long held desire to permanently increase the size of the federal government, charges a new report by The Heritage Foundation.
“It’s time to wake up. This stimulus bill is nothing but the permanent implementation of the pet projects of the House and Senate. There is nothing temporary about any of the spending increases in this bill. They are all designed to make the American people more dependent on the federal government. And there is nothing stimulating about that,” charge the report’s authors.
The Foundation’s analysts argue that the proof is in the pudding.
On top of the basic $79 billion education bailout, for instance, the House bill also includes expanded spending for a variety of programs – bringing the total education stimulus taxpayer bill to $142 billion.
There is $1 billion for Technology Education, $1.5 billion for Pell Grants, $6 billion for higher education institutions, $2.1 billion for Head Start, $2.5 billion for the National Science Foundation, and $2 billion in Child Care Development Block Grants.
“Are any of these spending increases even intended to be temporary?” rhetorically ask the Heritage analysts. “Can you possibly imagine Democrats in Congress standing up to cut Head Start and Pell Grant funding in two years?”
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Republicans Unveil Alternative Stimulus Package
Republicans have fiercely opposed a Democratic bill that comprises 550 billion dollars in spending and 275 billion dollars in tax cuts, charging it is too big, would do little to restore growth, feeds too many pet projects, and kicks in too late.
But “there’s unanimity that our economy needs help,” House Minority Leader John Boehner said at the White House after laying out the Republican initiative before Obama.
The Republican plan relies on cutting lowest individual tax rates from 15 percent to 10 percent and from 10 percent to five percent, tax deductions for small businesses, and a ban on tax increases to pay for new spending — which they say should be paid for by cutting spending in other areas.
It would also make unemployment benefits tax free, and offer a home-buyers credit for those who make a minimum down payment of five percent, according to a statement from the Republican leadership.
“At the end of the day, government can’t solve this problem. The American people have to solve it. And the way they can solve it is if we allow them to keep more of the money that they earn,” said Boehner. Read More
I keep seeing this on alot of web pages “Do You Want Barack Obama to Succeed?” and my answer is no I do not want Obama to succeed with the Big Government spending bill that will make ever American more dependent on the Obama government. In other words a socialist government. What do I intend to do about it, I will keep blogging the real stories in hopes that we the American people can vote out congressmen that vote along with Obama and his socialist agenda! To all you conservatives out there, put all you have into letting everyone know what the democrats are up to. Get the truth out, by blogging, emails, snail mail, phone and at get togethers. Call, write and email your congressmen today demanding that they also fight along side you to stop this Obama big time spending!We must fight back!
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(1) Nothing Temporary About This Stimulus Spending
The House bill perfectly demonstrates how the left is using the economic stimulus bill as cover to accomplish their long held desire to permanently increase the size of the federal government, with little or no benefit to the American taxpayer.
(2) “It seems the era of Hope is to be inaugurated with a slaughter of the innocents.”
This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence – la trahison des clercs – in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night.