STIMULATE ME OBAMA

Well, the big Bush stimulus package failed miserably, as has every other package since. So now the obvious solution, according the the Big O, is to mutliply the original fiasco by ten or twenty fold. The buffoons in Sodom on Potomac just keep throwing good money after bad. It gets more like Atlas Shrugged every single day, and the luniatics running the asylum are burying their heads deeper in the sand than anyone else.

While we're here, let's check the fine print on some of the pork, er, I mean, important infrastructure and industry stimuli included in the latest, greatest waste of money brought to us by the Messiah and his congressional minions. Here is just a tiny peek into the legions of entire hog farms' worth of pork, as detailed by Joel Skousen.

$15 billion to increase college Pell Grants

$50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts;

$400 million for global-warming research

$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects

$650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons

$252 billion is for income-transfer payments -- that is, cash or benefits to individuals for doing nothing at all.

$200 million expands Americorps

$746 million for after school snacks

$6.75 billion for the Department of Commerce, including $1 billion for a census.

$2 billion for child-care subsidies

$4 billion is allocated to expanding the police state and the war on through Byrne grants and the COPS program, both of which are corrupt and largely ineffective programs.

$20 billion would go towards health information technology, which would create a national system of electronic medical records without adequate privacy protection (These records would instead be subject to the misnamed federal 'medical privacy' rule, which allows government and state-favored special interests to see medical records at will)

$250 million is allocated for states to nationalize individual student data, expanding Federal control of education and eroding privacy.

Then, as pointed out in the link, there's some tinfoil hat goofball fringe kook candidate, I dunno who, he was saying some crazy stuff about the economy being a house of cards before they threw him out of the GOP campaign, who had a simpler solution. Some of us remember that tinfoil hat nutcase, who was trying to warn folks of all this for years, named Ron Paul. His ideas are:

1) Let banks and companies fail if they cannot survive on their own 2) Stop inflating asset prices with government purchases and bailouts 3) End the Trillion dollar annual spending to maintain the US Global Empire 4) Bring all our troops and assets home from around the world 5) End the fractional Federal Reserve banking system that caused the hyper asset inflation through pyramid debt 6) Have the US Treasury take charge of our monetary system and create a non debt based system.

By golly, that's so crazy it just might work. Which is why it will never ever even see the light of day out there in Sodom on Potomac. They'll continue to put band-aids on severed limbs and give aspirin in lieu of brain surgery until the whole economy plunges into Great Depression II. Well, the Big O did compare himself to FDR. Be careful what you wish for.