MucheDumbre

It’s never about the money. Never. It’s always what the money is going to be spent on.

The GOP is holding up President Obama’s stimulus bill because it is laden with pork projects. “Porkapalooza” as it’s being called, doesn’t stimulate the economy it just stimulates some congressional pockets. An increase in food stamps? That only helps the deadbeat losers buy more bonbons and watch more Springer. Another increase in unemployment insurance? That will surely break us, these people need to just get out there and find a job instead of living off the Government tit.  The only way to fix this economic mess is with tax breaks!

Sure, because 8 years of exactly that kind of stuff has been such a great economic boost so far.

It’s not the money, it’s what the money will be spent on. The GOP doesn’t like the idea of the poorer class of people getting a break that their rich brethren would appreciate more. It doesn’t matter to them that studies show a tax cut such as a Capital Gains Tax cut, would be least likely of any idea to stimulate the economy. It doesn’t matter that the Congressional Budget Office , Moody’s Economy.com or even Mark Zandi, the Republican economist who advised John McCain’s presidential campaign all say the same thing.

Extending food stamps is the most effective way to prime the economy’s pump. A $1
increase in food stamp payments boosts GDP by $1.73. People who receive these benefits
are very hard-pressed and will spend any financial aid they receive within a few weeks.
Because these programs are already operating, increased benefits can be quickly
delivered to recipients.

No, because see to help the poorer class people with an increase in food stamps, while being the best and fastest way to energizer the economy, is really just more socialism.  Don’t get me wrong, It’s not that we’re opposed to socialism it’s that we’re opposed to it when it’s helping welfare recipients. As long as it’s going to Wall Street and giant Banks for their office decoration and yearly bonus’ all is well within the GOP.

A $1 increase is food stamps will boost the GDP by $1.73 as opposed to a $1 in tax cuts only giving back $1.02. So what’s being cut? The GOP, who is raging about the stimulus bill for not stimulating the economy, what are they going to cut?  That’s right, the part that actually works, food stamps.

It’s not about the money… it never, ever is.

When asked to vote on President Obama’s bill, not one single House GOP member voted for the package, not a single one. My Muchedumbre colleague had this to say,

“Finally, after 8 years, they are starting to act like Republicans.”

To which another colleague replied

“Yep, that’s the biggest problem with the legislature… voting as a party, not as a country.”

It’s not about the spending, it’s what the money is being spent on. When the billions spent on the war is brought up the answer is of course. “well that didn’t have any effect on the economy, it was the Democrats refusal to stop the abuse in the Fannie/Freddie mess”

I guess we didn’t really need that $12 billion we sent to Iraq, that just vanished. I mean, what could that have paid for?   Nah, none of that broke the back of the economy, it was Freddie and Frannie and those scumbag sub primers who bought houses they couldn’t afford who broke us.

A great line actually. One that the idiot conservative talking heads repeat like RainMan and the People Court intro. The problem is, it’s a load of bullshit. The part these assbags don’t want you to hear, don’t want to think about is from 2003-2004 in the 108th Congress and the 109th Congress (2005-2006), the GOP held the Senate,the House, and the Oval Office. They could have shut any doors to any bill  that was bleeding this country dry had they wanted to. But did they? Nah, it was the Democrats who shut the door the very 1st day they took the power away from the abusers. The GOP likes to  talk about it, they just don’t want to do anything. Now ask yourself why the GOP would scream and cry in front of all the world to see that this Fannie/Freddie open door is what caused the problem. The answer? Because it was the Democrats that opened it to begin with. That I will concede. What I refuse  to let GOP off the hook for is their forgetfulness that they are the one who walked through that door and raped it’s inhabitants.

Why didn’t the GOP close the Fannie/Freddie loopholes? Because the capitalists were making money, making loads of money from those holes and they knew that when the bubble burst they could just say “See we told the Democrats that this would happen and they just didn’t listen.” As long as the money was flowing the GOP didn’t mind the open door at all, it wasn’t until they started losing massive amounts of money that they raised a stink over it.

Citizens, do not let them get away with these this shit. Remember that the GOP had the executive and the legislative branches of Government locked up tight and could have closed the loopholes had they really wanted to. But they didn’t, the Democrats did.

I think this all this bloviating and bellowing about President Obama’s stimulus plan can be summed up in 13 words, spoken by a senior Republican

“Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back,”

President Obama has asked for and tried to deliver a bi-partisan atmosphere in DC, after the House vote Rahm Emanuel even suggested the President hold a bipartisan reception at the White House, which John Boehner among others from both parties attended.

President Obama has tried to extend a hand to the GOP, but as they said in regards to his chief of staff, “we hate him..”.  How much do they hate Rahm?  Well, enough to make play-pretty-pretend phones calls to him.

…speaking on the phone in a mock dialogue, pretended to tease White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel the day before the stimulus bill vote in the House of Representatives. “Rahm, you’re making the Clinton mistake going for spending in a crisis. Reagan radically adjusted the tax code in his crisis. Rahm, all you’re trying to do is scare people, like Hank Paulson did with the TARP. It won’t work this time. We’re wise to it. Rahm, you won’t get ten votes from us. Not ten.”

Yes, the GOP’s answer to an extended hand is a mocking phone call with the promise that you won’t get 10 votes from us, not ten!

I wonder if the 7 year olds running the GOP are allowed to stay up late on the weekends or if their mothers shuffle them off to bed early.

On Nov 4 this country spoke up a told the world who we believed in, who we trusted and whose policies we wanted to use to fix this economic catastrophe.

The GOP still isn’t listening, they are still only looking out for the top 1% with capital gains tax cuts instead of food stamps. They are still living in the extreme-partisan atmosphere with their hate of President Obama’s staff. They live and thrive in the fear mongering of the next attack and how it will be the fault of President Obama and not the administration who invaded, killed and tortured untold numbers of people. $12 billion vanished under the last administration, a branch of the company the last VP was CEO of is pleading guilty to government bribery charges in the amount of $95 million paid to officials in Nigeria in exchange for engineering and construction contracts. It’s not about the money, it’s about who gets it. It’s time for the rest of the population to stand up and say once again, we are tired of this shit! We are tired of the lies, the theft, the partisan attacks, we voted for change and we damn well expect it that change and if you didn’t get the message in this time, you will damn well get it next time. 7 in 10 people approve of President Obama, it’s time he start forcing the others to heed their wishes. It’s time for the Democrats to fight for democracy here the way the GOP fought for it in Iraq.  President Obama tried the open hand, now it’s almost time to start using a Left hook.

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