Assault on the military

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We were promised that if Congress and the President signed into law a stimulus package so big, there isn't one of us who can wrap our minds around that quantity of money, that jobs would be created and the recession would be soon over. It was of the utmost urgency that that be passed immediately to rescue us from depression, and the emergency made it prudent to do so despite the many pork barrel provisions and imperfections in the legislation.

We have lost hundreds of thousands of jobs every single month since the legislation was passed many months ago, the recession hangs on, it appears that much if not most of the money has gone to pay off friends and cronies of the administration, and they now tell us that most of the money won't be committed until next year. But it was an emergency.

They told us that bailout of the financial institutions was necessary to free up credit to get business and commerce moving again. The money went into those institutions who can't seem to explain what happened to much, if any of it, but credit remained frozen and the GDP remained stalled.

We were promised that if they authorized a gazillion dollars bailout of General Motors that they could head off bankruptcy that they couldn't allow to happen without bankrupting most of the country. Well the money went in, but the bankruptcy happened anyway without producing much of the dire consequences.

Would we have been better off or worse off without the stimulus package? It's hard to imagine that we would be worse off.

Would we have been better off or worse off without bailing out the financials? It's hard to imagine that we would be worse off.

Would we have been better off or worse off without the government buying General Motors? It's hard to imagine that we would be worse off.

Would we be better off or worse off if we weren't facing trillions of dollars of deficits due to these actions of Congress and the President? It's hard to imagine that we would be worse off.

Will our national defense be better off or worse off by diverting hundreds of millions of defense dollars to fund pet Congressional or Presidential projects that will not improve the lives of anybody? It's hard to imagine that we will be better off.

The Pied Piper Approach. People hear what they want to hear.