April 1, 2009
My Own Personal, Money Saving Idea For A Stimulus Package
We are witnessing, via the excesses of the Obama Administration and the Democrats on the Hill, the largest and, by virtue of its size, least affordable spending spree by any government in history, sums of money so vastly beyond that which we have to spend that to say these people are overextending us would be a profound understatement.
The children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the present generation, as yet unborn, are becoming unwitting lenders in the financing of the great debt being generated, yet when their taxtimes arrive, they will no longer function as lenders, but as borrowers — through rendered-necessary and heavily increased taxes, it is they who will be forced to pay off both the principals and interest of the immense debt underneath which our incumbent, irresponsible liberal “progressive” leaders are in the process of burying them.
This collective “groundbreaking” expenditure is falsely packaged as a series of measures geared toward jump-starting our troubled economy. In actuality, it is a collection of temporary bailouts that will lead to other temporary bailouts as the supposedly bailed-out companies fail under the inept auspices of government direction and allocations of massive amounts of the current and future taxpayers’ hard earned lucre to liberal “progressive” political PACs, unions and Utopian causes — you know, those bureaucracy-generating ones, for which our political left is famous, that snowball over the years into expensive tragedies.
Hundreds of billions of dollars. The concept, even, of so much money is mind boggling.
That said, stop and think.
There are what? About three hundred million people in this country? And the Obama spending spree totals more than two million times that number?
Well, Barack, Pelosi, Reid and friends, how about this?
If you’re dead set on doing the socialist thing, why not simply bail out all Americans on a case-by-case basis? This one needs his irresponsibly assumed mortgage paid off, fine: pay it off for him. That one is un-or-underinsured in the healthcare department, pay off his hospital bills or open an account from which his health insurance premiums can be debited. This one’s homeless but wants to work and be independent, get him a small studio apartment, pay the bills and give him a few hundred a month to eat and commute on while he’s attending the trade school we’re paying for and then looking for a job. Etc, etc, etc…
Let those in need of assistance file for it, give them, say, a three month window and the carved in stone warning that the government is only going to do this one time. To process claims and disburse funds, hire qualified temps with an understanding that the job will only last three months.
Even if everybody in the country had a million dollar problem, three hundred million would be a real bargain compared to what they’re serving up now.
That, friends, is about as far reaching a compromise as I would make, were I in the position to do so.
*Offer extends only to individuals, not big corporations, and only to U.S. citizens.
Capable, visionary, ambitious people built the big banks, brokerage houses and automobile companies into the dynamos they have become. Let these same concerns now fix themselves, restructure, go Chapter 11, do whatever they need to do. Don’t nationalize these private sector businesses under the pretense of bailing them out. This is America, we don’t do that kind of thing.
Or at least we didn’t.
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April 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am
BHO is trying to do something worse than nationalize our financial institutions.
See this video and the link in this posting by Z.
I tell you this: I’m glad that Mr. AOW and I don’t have children. If we did, I’d really be gnashing my teeth!
April 4th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Always On Watch,
Seth is presently taking a boat trip up the coast, and has asked me, once again, to mind the store as he may not be able to get near a computer for a bit.
The two links you included in your comment are an indicator that those who hate the concept upon which America is based, even while profiting from it themselves, are on the cusp of bringing about this great country’s destruction.
I am already a grandfather, and do not envy my childrens’ children what they have in store for them in this “New World” that is coming.
More follows later.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Actually, the next day.
Before he embarked on his maritime trip, Seth and I discussed the above post. I pointed out the extreme mathematical error upon which he based the post.
In response, he made a great point: If you take the number of people in this country (legally) and figure that between those with mortgage problems, those in need of health insurance back-up, those unemployed beyond the compensation time limit, the homeless and so forth, and exclude all those who are successfully getting by, earning significantly above the national average or just plain wealthy, and pay only what it takes to “jumpstart” these peoples’ lives, it will still cost hundreds of billions of dollars less than the “stimulus” package, which is nothing more than a massively fraudulent abscondance with the taxpayers’ money.
Both Seth and I agree that the government is way out of bounds doing anything at all to “help” the economy. Sorry, ain’t anything anywhere in the Constitution authorizing any POTUS or Congress to manipulate the marketplace. There’s also nothing in there that condones the President of the United States, any President of the United States, handing any leverage, any leverage at all, to foreign countries, over the management of our national economy as he has been up to at the G-20 Summit.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Sounds like ol Seth: bail out the unemployed for three months…then take a yacht trip!
April 14th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I’m a grandmother and I don’t envy my grandchildren either. What is being done is going to affect them and probably generations beyond them. It’s utterly disgusting!
As for Seth, good for him. Wish I could go on a Yacht trip. I think. I’m not sure because I’ve never been on a ship of any sort. I might get seasick!
April 14th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Because I read the comments I forgot what I was going to say after reading the post: This is America. We don’t do that sort of thing. When this was America, we didn’t do that sort of thing. With socialists in power it’s not the same America, and the constitution is being ignored. As long as they believe they can get away with it, they’ll do exactly what they want to do regardless of our constitution or anything else.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
BB –
I wish it had simply been a fun cruise, unfortunately, well, see my next post, published shortly.
Gayle –
It wasn’t really a cruise as most people think of cruises, though it was fun. It was a couple to a few miles along a coastline, in a cabin cruiser with both motor and sail, and as I love the water, waves and wind, I had a great time.
Wolf is doing some other stuff on my behalf right now, but he saw your comments, and says he agrees (so do I). This left wing government we’ve got now will, if they can, probably trash the Constitution in the limited time they have to do so.
I don’t think that, after Nov 2010, there will be a Democrat majority on the Hill anymore, nor do I expect to see a Democrat President still in the White House after the elections 2 years later.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Friends –
I just spent half an hour doing a post on my present circumstances, and it didn’t publish, simply disappeared, so as I’m out of time, I’ll simply say this:
Something happened that has caused Wolf to get me to move completely out of “civilization” temporarily.
For the time being, I am dwelling high up on one wall of a densely wooded canyon in the mountains.
I will be coming into town once a week until this is over, for supplies and to check my email.
At present, my neighbors are deer, fox, coyotes, raccoons, a small bobcat and lots of rattlesnakes (I had to kill one of those the other day, a baby — the deadliest of the lot). I have a clean clear stream of drinkable water down below, a camouflaged dome tent, a Coleman 2 burner stove, etc, and am actually enjoying things thusfar.
Well, time to get cracking for the hike back up into them thar hills.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Hope all is well.
Holler if you need anything.
April 20th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Something happened that has caused Wolf to get me to move completely out of “civilization” temporarily.
For the time being, I am dwelling high up on one wall of a densely wooded canyon in the mountains.
Seth, don’t hesitate to email me if you need anything.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Welcome to Idaho!
April 24th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Phin, AOW –
Many thanks, everything’s going mostly fine, except that my blog simply blows off posts now whern I try to publish them. Also, I answered the above comments earlier and my comments weren’t published either.
Phin, any ideas?
BB –
Not quite, and no sign of any spuds, either.
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
That’s weird about your blog, Seth. I haven’t got the slightest idea what’s going on.
The way this country is going, it probably won’t be long before Walt and I, and many others, will be joining you in the mountains!
May 30th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Are you okay, Seth?
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Gayle –
Yay, I can get into my own blog again, thanks to the great Phin!
Well, I replied, in the meantime, via email. Still same-o same-o.
AOW –
Yeah, I’m okay — thanks! :-). Wolf mentioned when he posted that I was up in them thar hills, which I was, but I had a few things to do back here in civilization the last couple of days.
Wolf’s geting ready to take a trip the Netherlands Antilles to perform a small chore on my behalf, but before he goes, he may post a bit more (he’s becoming rather miffed at some of the stuff that’s been happening of late, such as Obama’s nationalization og General Motors).
We’re hoping that Wolf will soon be able to log in and post using his own log-in.