Welcome to change comrades

Well...I hope this was the change you voted for. Straight from one of the voices who worked so hard to ensure this "change," "Red state, Blue state, it doesn't matter, we are all socialist now."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/183663/page/2

The largest single government spending spree in our history, baring some sort of miraculous, last minute lightning bolt of common sense, is all but assured of passage in the senate tomorrow. To quote the Newsweek article,

Now comes the reckoning. The answer may indeed be more government. In the short run, since neither consumers nor business is likely to do it, the government will have to stimulate the economy. And in the long run, an aging population and global warming and higher energy costs will demand more government taxing and spending. The catch is that more government intrusion in the economy will almost surely limit growth (as it has in Europe, where a big welfare state has caused chronic high unemployment). Growth has always been America's birthright and saving grace.

The Obama administration is caught in a paradox. It must borrow and spend to fix a crisis created by too much borrowing and spending.

Wherever you are tomorrow when the vote is cast, know that your elected government has taken a sharp left turn (pun intended) and the country you grew up in, the country whose flag has covered so many coffins of young men and women who died defending it's land, it's ideals, and it's freedoms, the country of "united we stand, divided we fall," has started down a path that will be almost impossible to turn back from.

For everyone who voted for this "change," please understand that some of us will have to be dragged along kicking and screaming. As long as the First Amendment still stands, some of us will exercise our freedom to voice our opposition and lift up this country in our prayers. As long as the Second Amendment still stands, some of us will we willing to resist, and dare I say it?...fight if need be to ensure the survival of liberty and freedom.

Until that day comes when the last voice is silenced and the last will to resist is gone, know that you haven't won.

I will end with two of my favorite quotes from a pair of our founding fathers. "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security, deserve neither." Benjamin Franklin

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson.

Tomorrow, those who voted for the former and "change," will have a government capable of doing the latter. Only time will tell if it's the last government we will ever have.

Let's Pretend

Forget for just a minute that it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to know that you can’t borrow your way into financial health and prosperity. For just a moment, pretend that the quickest way to become financially secure and not live pay check to pay check is to NOT pay off all your debts. Forget for just a moment that America’s life blood is a free market economy and it really is no business of the federal government to try and manipulate the stock market, housing prices or mortgage rates or who should qualify for a loan, or to bail out struggling private industries with money forcefully collected from it’s citizens or to put people to work.

Now that we’re living in fantasy land, for argument’s sake, let’s say it’s a good idea for the government to dish out almost a trillion tax payer dollars to try and stimulate a struggling economy. President Obama is warning us that if we don’t do this, we will find ourselves in an economic mess we may never recover from.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/obama-economic-speech-war_n_156171.html

The House of Representatives has already voted on and passed their version of the “stimulus” package. The Senate is debating on their version as we speak. Now that we’ve agreed (again, purely for arguments sake) that this is a good idea, how should this great big pile of cash be spent? You’d think they’d want to concentrate on creating a bunch of new jobs and giving the tax payers a break so they’d have more money in their own pockets to spend, right? Well, you’d be wrong. Here are some examples of how they want to spend this trillion dollars.

$75 million for "smoking cessation activities."
$150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities
$88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
$25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
$1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
$10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
$400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's
$246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
$650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program
$1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.
$160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
$200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html

That’s just a small sample of the house “stimulus” package. They also want to spend a lot more on making the government “green” or forcing the rest of us toward a greener life to combat…dare I say it…global warming! My point is nothing good ever comes from trying to borrow your way out of debt or into financial stability. This “so-called” stimulus package MAY create a FEW jobs, but it is mainly a special interest money grab and a side door to battle the Al Gore's boogey man of global warming and it will end up be nothing less than a recipe for national financial ruin.

Oh...I forgot. What are you getting out of the trillion dollar hand out? $500 bucks. $1000 for couples. See? President Obama promised he'd take care of you.

Despite what the 24 news media and congress wants you to believe, we are not in a depression, nor are we even suffering from the worst recession since the 1930’s. Unemployment is still below 7% nationally, interest rates are the lowest EVER, inflation is virtually non existent, and pre-owed housing sales actually rose by 6% last month. I admit times are rough, (especially if you are included in the group that lost your job) and the near future doesn’t look that much brighter. BUT...we are not in desperate times. And even if we were, spending a trillion dollars isn’t going to make it better. All it is going to do is turn the United States of America into the largest debtor in the world I urge you, email or call your senator.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators

Tell them to vote NO on the stimulus package. Let him or her know that you don’t want our country to be burdened by another trillion dollars of debt on a situation, that if left alone ( i.e. the government minds it’s own business or better yet actually cuts back on spending) will eventually work itself out.

Or...you can just sit back and let the government decide everything for you. That's what we elected them for, right? So we could watch American Idol while our country slides hopelessly toward socialism?