Posted by
Pete Zimmerman on Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:54:16 PM
Can we be honest for a minute?
Most Conservatives agree that the plan before congress right now is a bad one. Nothing but an overblown pork barrel package that the fat bottomed legislatures threw together to satisfy unions, the unemployed, and low wage workers in the U.S. in a blatant attempt at securing their future votes to keep these yahoos in congress for many years to come.
The enormity of this legislation is mind-boggling. This will put our children and our children's children in debt for many decades to come. Unable to pay for the social programs implemented by liberal presidents of past generations.
But like many bad situations, some good could come from it. If congress indeed does go to the well once again to spend close to a trillion dollars, perhaps they will drain the coffers enough that ridiculous social programs like universal healthcare and socialized medicine will become impossible to pay for - freeing us from the threat at least for a little while.
Liberal democratic politicians live in a fantasy world where they think all they have to do is dream it - and they can have it. Nevermind that we have no way of paying for it. The fact is that this kind of thinking was what led to the economic mess we are in in the first place - the "I want it, and I want it right now!" mantality. Unable to pay for what we want, millions of Americans now default on the loans given to them through the easy money loans of the 90's and 00's.
The bubble has popped but the democrats continue to live in their past fantasy world of social programs and free money. Time to wake up from the fantasy once and for all. Spending/borrowing more money will not end the crisis, it will only delay the recovery.