One Word “Responsibility”

Marcie @ BullsEyeResumes

“I don’t understand why anyone would object to child-care subsidies. Children shouldn’t have to suffer just because there was no oversight over bankers.”
This is the type of justification I would expect from someone who pushes for bigger government. So, children suffer because the general public may not want to subsidize >another< $2,000,000,000.00 worth of money that will do nothing to stimulate the economy? Baloney!

“National Endowment of the Arts – It is generally during times of bad economy, wars, etc, that the arts are often an escape from the misery index.”
Reduction of the ‘misery index’ does not stimulate the economy. However, funding new programs often leads to the money being spent by the government in perpetuity. Every dollar the government spends in new hand-outs generates another hundred that will follow it for years to come. Why not reduce the individual tax payer’s misery and give this money back to them?

“ So some of the stimulus will be like a time release capsule, continuing to pump money into the economy over an extended period of time.”
What it is going to do is continually pump money out of our children’s wallets as these programs carry on forever and continue to increase debt and taxes. This bill is almost pure pork to the left wing agenda supporters.

“One other thing, despite my approval of this round of governemtn spending to boost the economy, I am very conservative with my money. I generally don’t spend much and I have been finding ways of putting money away as backup just in case of times like these.”
Too bad your much more liberal spending everyone else’s money.

“However, one thing I noticed was that whenever our company went through a down period, our CEO would go borrow a bunch of money and spend rather freely to get the company going again (often times with my objection, encouraging tightening instead of borrowing and spending.) It always seemed to work though and as the business started to succeed again, then he would use the money to pay off our debts.”
Yeah, right … every corporation spends its way out of financial hard times … Where do you work again? I can always use a little info about stocks to short.

STOP having sex and making babies if you can’t afford!

It is not fair for those who work hard and continue contribute to the social security and yet getting nothing when they are retired.

Child-Care Subsidies – I would love to take care of your kids, as well as mine.

NEA – Ah yes, nothing like a $20,000 jar of urine to make the neighborhood better.

Global Warming – Glad to see the Goracle was up in DC this week to make sure he got something.

Digital TV – I wasn’t alive back when TV replaced radio as the main form of information into the home. Who paid for the 1st TV sets? Washington? I guarantee you the next thing coming is free broadband to every household. Access to the internet is the next “right” for Americans.

You do realize almost 1/2 the people in this county don’t even pay an income tax? Where will they steal the money from when that number hits 75%? Soon there won’t be anyone left to take from and then there will be no programs.

I don’t understand why anyone would object to child-care subsidies. Children shouldn’t have to suffer just because there was no oversight over bankers.

National Endowment of the Arts – It is generally during times of bad economy, wars, etc, that the arts are often an escape from the misery index. The arts also play a very prominent role in transforming broken down neighborhoods into city centers, creating a hot spot for businesses and property values rise accordingly (running off most of the artists who can no longer afford to live there.)

You seem to have a personal issue with Global Warming related issues so there will be little that I can say that would influence you on that, but by government standards, the sum is quite small. The Carbon Capture demos are kind of a band-aid approach to the problem, but considering the warnings that are coming out of the scientific community at this time, it may buy us some time.

Finally, the digital TV conversion coupons are all out and we are approaching the conversion date. This is mostly for rural folks and the poor who depend on broadcast tv (as opposed to cable and satellite.) If I were to guess, a good amount of those coupons will never be used as many people will get them and find out later that they don’t need them or that they can use it towards the purchase of a converter box.

Not all of the stimulus is intended to be used immediately though, but a good portion of it is. This is going to be a long term problem (best estimates are that it could take two years before things start to turn around.) So some of the stimulus will be like a time release capsule, continuing to pump money into the economy over an extended period of time.

I and future generations, can care squat diddly about paying retirement/welfare/etc to people i have never met or care when our own are financial health are uncertain

down with socialism!

The real fix will be to recognize, as the Country’s Founding Fathers did at the inception of our Country, that Free Trade Agreements are not free. You cannot expect to sustain, much less grow, a consumer economy, if the people in a Country do not have meaningful employment.

We’ve looked it over, and even we can’t quite believe it. There’s $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There’s even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.