Government and more government

Here are my quick takes on the State of the Union speech today:

1. OMG, Obama gets a budget too? After all the build up and hub bub on the spending orgy called the Economic Recovery Act ($787B), I completely forgot about the normal annual appropriation bill! Chaulk up another $410B for 2009. He talks about how hard it was to put the ERA and the budget together...come on...how hard is it to spend at will. It's like giving someone $100,000 and tell them to spend it at the mall. There are sooooo many stores...where do you go, where do you start, what do you buy? Give me a break.

2. Energy. Ok, quickly what is zero times two? Hmmm. I get zero. So we are going to double our output from renewable energy in 3 years at a cost of how much? Double zero and you get zero. NO ONE in Washington understands economics. We are sitting on over 200 years of coal and hundreds of billions gallons of oil and we are going to double zero to avoid importing oil. My head hurts with all this stupidity.

3. Healthcare. Need reform? No doubt, but do we really need the Government to run this? Remember anything "free" -- which is what most people hear when politicians say healthcare reform -- must be rationed. There is never unlimited resources to continue to provide "free" things for infinity. How do you ration? Government will make decisions on what health services you will receive and when you will receive them. It is that simple. We know how it works by watching Canada and UK. How many of you truly enjoyed your experience at the division of motor vehicles so much that you want to reward government with running healthcare?

Do three things and you have a different, more responsive, and reformed healthcare system: (1) tort reform, (2) take health insurance out of company benefits, and (3) foster competition.

4. Education. Ok, so Obama was so successful with improving Chicago public schools that it is now time to do the same for the rest of the US. Not. Look into Chicago public schools and the millions Obama and others wasted. Education from birth to 18. That is another OMG moment. Public schools are so great in the cities that we will now bring in kids immediately after birth. Also, what happened to the era of responsibility? Parents won't have to worry about being responsible for those pesky kids anymore...hmm....yea we need more of that....not.

I do like his support of charter schools. There, I can say something nice.

5. He says, "we are not going to pass on debt that they [our kids] can't pay"!!!! I feel like I'm in a twilight zone episode. I love how he says what we want to hear but take actions that are exactly opposite. And we are not done spending yet. We have coming to a congressional committee near you....Auto Bailout 2, Save the Mortgages Bailout, Bank Bailout 3 (call it TARP 2 if you wish), and Econimic Stimulus 2 & 3 double header when the current stimulus doesn't work. We have added debt for our kids, their kids, and probably their kids. Because if there is one thing that is certain, government NEVER reduces. Every dollar we spend in the name of stimulus and stability will continue to be spent in the out years, subject to inflation increases of course, because we simply can't cut from the needy...

Oh, and lastly...what a snoozer from Gov Bobby Jindal. That was a horrible Republican response. There, I said something not so nice about a Republican.

Do you feel united?

Hmmm. I can't help but notice that the man that was partially (or was it largely?) elected to unify us is dividing us even more then ever. What was it that the media was saying? It was something like "his grand narrative will unite this country..."

- rich versus poor
- responsible homeowner versus non-responsible homeowners
- CEO's verus everyone else
- tax payers verus tax cheats
- Smart Car driver versus Hummer driver

Can anyone say change?

And now Eric Holder says this country is full of cowards for not addressing race...wow...didn't we just elect the first black president...the race industry continues...

There is a growing unrest amongst the silent majority and perhaps even over the great unwashed...stay tuned...as Drudge says...developing...

...as Obama says about the economy...this is going to get worse before it gets better...

Barrack Hussein Clinton Obama

Change? Not really.

President Obama is taking a page from ex-President Bill Clinton's book with his statement that there are "no earmarks" in this travesty of a bill they call the Economic Recovery Act. You have to parse his words similar to the way we had to under Clinton (remember how "is" was re-defined?).

Yes, not one congressman added "earmarks" as the bill went through it's approval process. That is because they DID NOT HAVE TO; they already added everything they wanted for every project and experiment when the bill was written. The stuff built into the bill would have been pork and "earmarks" under a normal spending bill. They wrote it; they threw the kitchen sink into it...

So Obama's statement was at best disingenuous at worse an outright lie. You decide which but remember what a lie is..."a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement with the intention to deceive..."

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a not so conservative outfit, just reported that the GDP will actually REDUCE over ten years with this bill. If we do nothing, the CBO says we would have less debt and the GDP would be HIGHER.

Do nothing is an option unlike another statement that Obama made during his press conference yesterday. It is better to not pass this monster...

Ask yourself why they want this bill so badly and so fast? The cover story is stimulus but READ what is in there...don't listen to how it is presented.