Here’s Your “Stimulus”
It’s tough for photographers to capture the essence of the U.S. government’s latest trillion dollar “stimulus” plan, but we think this picture pretty much sums it up.
We’ll let you assign roles for the feds, the states and the taxpayers …
Next up?
Another trillion for the banks and their so-called “troubled assets.”
By our count, that will put the total taxpayer tab for all this government interventionism at $12 trillion … in the last five months alone.
Un-friggin believable, people.
Comments
By roofus on February 9th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
As Dr. Sowell noted, asking the government to fix the financial calamity it caused is akin to employing an arsonist to extinguish a blaze he created…
By Pat Hendrix on February 9th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Explain the math then explain fitsnews magic formula for fixing the economy. And this time try not using snarky quotation marks, bogus stats, starwman arguments and deliberately misleading “some people say” or “many leading economists…”
Just the numbers, ladies. Just the facts. I’d like to hear it, even just once.
By Pat Hendrix on February 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
The government created this mess only in the sense they removed government regulation to a point that the banks drove us off a cliff. Aside from that, I would like for you to explain how the ‘gub-ment’ is responsible for this meltdown. And before you bother dragging out the Fannie Mae canard, keep in mind that I already know that’s a pant load.
By Philip Branton on February 9th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Ah …yes ….high on Waste Management “METHANE” !!!!
Great Pic ….Sic !!
I know your coming around to my way of “Civil ENERGY War” …!!!
By roofus on February 9th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Pant load? Excuse me? I believe the American people need to know why Barney Frank gave sweet-heart deals to his then boy-friend executive at Fannie Mae, all the while assuring Congress and President Bush that Fannie Mae was solvent. Might this be a conflict of interest? Pant load, indeed!
By roofus on February 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
In response to Pat’s query: how is the “gub-ment” responsible for this meltdown? Easy. The “gub-ment” was not “ment” to spend money it does not have. Now we are about to enslave future generations of Americans to unsustainable foreign debt. Latest figures suggest that the interest alone on Obama’s “Generational Theft Act of 2009″ will be over $40 billion/year. Does that stimulate you?
By Red Bank Bar on February 10th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Good ole roofus, channeling Herbert Hoover. He’s a deficit hawk now that the Repugs are a permanent regional party. Ole roofus never said a word about President Junior “enslaving” (Mande, is that you?….there you go again with the 13th Amendment..) anyone with the $1 Trillion cost of the bogus Iraq occupation.
Nothing either about Junior doubling the national debt. Go climb back in your spider hole, roofus, we’ll come get wake you after Obama’s second term.
By BC on February 10th, 2009 at 11:04 am
How about this for anyone that actually cares, what do YOU propose we do about this matter? Take these figures into consideration; 3.6 million Americans are out of work, several banks have failed due to risky business practicies (which triggered this economic ripple), and several major businesses are or will be shuddering. Let us not forget about consumer spending that is slowing (since 3.6 million Americans have little to no money to spend to include the rest of us that are afraid to spend because we fear losing our jobs). So again, what do we do?
By roofus on February 10th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I won’t presume to have all the answers for our nation’s economic woes. However, why does Mr. Obama need access to all of your intimate medical records? Does Mr. Obama really need to know about your hemorroids or about that herpetic outbreak in ‘69? It would seem to me that a bill to correct our nations fiscal pains should not include a fascist grab of your treasured medical information. Very chilling. Speaking of Hoover, I’m sure J. Edgar Hoover would have loved to acquire the power Obama is about to seize…all in the name of “stimulus”…
By roofus on February 10th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
BC asks, How do we fix this economic situation? I respond; lower taxes! Mr. Obama’s bill does not stimulate the economy. It stimulates government metastasis. It does not grow liberty. It encroaches upon your liberty. Big Brother will be peeking over your medical records and second-guessing your doctor for crying out loud!How will invading our cherished medical privacy grow the economy, Mr. Obama? The people who will benefit from the current bill will be foreign banking interests who are making an estimated 40 billion dollar/year profit on the interest alone. Saudi, European, and Chinese banks will gain immensely from the bill, as will George Soros who made millions manipulating the British pound in the 90’s. Our children and grandchildren will never experience the freedoms you and I take for granted, as they will be literally enslaved to unpayable debt.