“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Life isn’t about learning to survive the storm……..But rather learning to dance in the rain”

Well, it looks like they have the length and diameter of the shaft figured out, now they just have to decide how hard they re gonna give it to us…

According to Rasmussen, less than 37% support this bill. Yet it is going through. Where is the representation that these folks who we elected are supposed to be giving us? I intend to work VERY hard to get others to vote these folks out of office.

They have “trimmed” the bill down to $780Billion. Nice job of trimming. With interest, this means that this will cost over a TRILLION dollars in the next 10 years.

So much for “change”.

Fuck-em. We need a real revolution here.

Go here for more info:
http://dancleary.typepad.com/dan_cleary/2009/02/the-stimulus-bill-remains-mindboggling-waste-of-money-we-dont-have.html

(If I ever figure out how to make links post as links, I promise to do so….If you can explain it to me, please do so in the comments!)

So here is the thing…..I am not a right wing whacko, but I am definitely right of center. Therefore: “middle of the right”.

Hope that clears things up a bit….

While I would, of course, never advocate violence, My friend Shakey Pete has an interesting point to make.

Go here: http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2009/02/dear-barack.html

It’s worth the read.

So it looks like the “ruling class” in Washington is about to screw the rest of the country……The spending bill, no matter how you slice it, is gonna shaft each and every American taxpayer.

Better to give the money to the taxpayers. If we each spent the $10k or so the this is gonna cost us taxpayers (each)….Now THAT would stimulate the economy…Either we’d buy cars, or refrigerators, or pay off credit cards, or buy something else, or at worst, save it in a bank account.

Either way, it would do more to get the economy working again better than this “targeted” bullshit that they are trying to ram down our throats.

Best of all, it would be a market based approach to saving the economy. Those companies who provide quality goods and services would thrive, and those who don’t would fail.

And isn’t that one of the principles that this country was built on? Part of what made this country so great?

And, BTW, what is the hurry in passing this? Other than to keep people from really getting a chance to look at this bill and think about it. Perhaps they feel that the more time people have to look at this, the less they’ll like it. I guess that that is the reason for all this fear mongering.