Some interesting stats about the state of the economy. The USA has lost 3.6 MILLION jobs since the Stimulus Bill saved us all from a recession. A couple weeks ago, an employment study noted that something like 360,000 jobs had been created by the federal government -- turns out they were mostly census jobs, and many of them represented census collectors who had been fired and re-hired several times, each re-hire representing a job created, and the firings apparently not counted at all.
By contrast, the private sector in the same study created maybe 25,000 jobs.
What's wrong with this picture?
The liberals run around saying, "Oh, but the Stimulus saved all kinds of state-level jobs." Yeah. Jobs that represent income for state legislators' and officials' useless brothers-in-law and similar. We all know how state government works. "Hey, let's tear up that highway once again, mangle traffic for months, and collect our bloated pensions off the backs of private taxpayers."
You know what? The Keynesian thing about government spending stimulating the economy only works on a very small scale and for a very short time. It can be effective as a last-resort stop-gap measure, if the funds expended are equal to what you can afford to flush down a toilet, and if the step is taken only to attract private capital and investment. Isn't that what "stimulus" means? Let's not confuse "stimulus" with "carrying union workers on our backs forever more."
The Stimulus Bill fails on both counts and it alsways did, and it never had the potential to do anything else. It will, however, extend the recession, because debt-spending does have to repaid, and with interest.
The trouble with government funding is that it's essentially a drain on private funds that could be better and more effectively applied to private industry and productivity, making and selling and generating profits on products and services that people really want.
The government doesn't produce very much that people want and are willing to pay for. What the public is willing to pay for is: education (increasingly home-schooled and private); police and fire departments; PROTECTING U.S. BORDERS (which the feds are actually suing Arizona for enforcing); national defense.
All the rest of the crap perpetrated by the feds and the state is just legislators winking and nodding at each other: "Hey! I found another way to buy us some more voters!"
It isn't a dem or a Republican thing. It's a political corruption thing.
Note that every time a politician talks about cutting government spending, they threaten to cut not the useless Backwoods County Historic Train Station Renovation Project, which is $5 million over-budget with no chance of completion by deadline if ever, but eliminating jobs at the Fire Department.
That's political blackmail -- Honestly, true extortion by any definition: You refuse to empty your pockets into my slush fund, and I'll let your house burn down.
It's disgusting. Really, a genuine insult to intelligence, and a slap in the voter's face. And we all see through it. But maybe enough private citizens are on the government gravy train so that they continue to let it happen, and hope and pray for more government spending lest they have to find a real job. God forbid.
And now the Comrade and the merry marxists want $50 BILLION more to pay off their cronies and/or secure their base of bribed voters.
You know what, why not roll this legislation up real tight and put it where the sun don't shine? You had your chance, buttheads, and you totally blew it. Let California fail. Let the teachers find summer employment if they can't subsist on $85,000 per year. Let those idiots who do nothing but stand on the highway blocking traffic find something more productive and proftable to do with their lives.
Hey, congress and the White House, just go play golf -- on your own dime, that would be nice -- and leave us all alone to fix our own problems. We don't need this government. This government is only standing in our way, sucking all the money out of our bank accounts and retirement funds and searching for more and more ways to put its boot on our necks.
How long before that $20 BILLION in BP money will be "diverted" to "indirectly affected" industries, like deputy-assistant-under-secretaries in the office of the regional-deputy-assistant-director-of-moving-paper-across-the-mail-room of some government office somewhere. How long before we see a "crisis" in useless government employee employment? Actually, we're already seeing it. That's what "Stimulus" is all about.
Hoping voters won't forget ANY of this in November. And if the dumb bastards try to push a bunch more of communist crap through in their lame duck session after the holidays -- go ahead! We'll just repeal it. Or better yet -- ignore the hell out of it.
Cash is good. Think green.
Save the republic.
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