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TARP, Brace Yourself For More!!

March 2, 2010 in Spending it like it grows on trees, What can you do? by cvlambson

Now we’re getting the real story of the tarp legislation. Here’s an example: Higher education in Missouri lamentsa 5.2% cut, because now they wonder what will happen when the stimulus money runs out next year.

Analyze that for a moment. Let that ferment in your brain. What did they say? They fear when tarp runs out, because  they don’t know what they will do.

So, are you saying that, actually, the stimulus didn’t stimulate. Sure, it saved some jobs. How could you give away billions upon billions and not give somebody some work. That’s not the problem. It may have saved a few jobs for a year, but then the money will be gone, without real growth from industry, Industry was not stimulated. the income streams coming into the schools will not have increased, and the government will have to spend the same amount on another stimulus to keep it going.You saw 15 billion dollars more in a “jobs ” bill this last week.

I think of TARP as, buying consumables on your credit card. When you eat the food its gone, but the bill still remains and you still have to go buy more food. It’s a double whammy.

I have asked the question all along, what will happen when the stimulus money is gone? Will the government go back to spending what it did pre-stimulus or will we need to spend the same amount just to keep the appearance of money flowing and the appearance of the economic stabilization façade standing upright?

You have been duped, those of you who believed that TARP was really to “help” the economy, “stimulate” the economy. TARP and the policies of the last two years of bailouts, handouts, and out and out bribes is the biggest expansion of government in our history. It was not meant to stimulate the economy. It was to grow government, plain and simple.

And now the organizations that got the money, look forward and go, “holy crap, we are worse off than we were before”.

Now what America. Trillions more debt, no new jobs, and millions people that want to keep the government giving going, so they can keep their jobs.

What will be the response of the Obama Administration next year? Won’t they have to give out billions more in stimulus to keep the boat with the holes afloat. Where will the money come from?

A Rabble Rouser

May 7, 2009 in Spending it like it grows on trees, They Gotta be Crazy by cvlambson

When you study under the tutelage of riff-raff, you learn how to act like riff raff. When you study under respectful, law-abiding people with character, you learn how to be such a person.

I wonder how many “decent” people that President Obama has been tutored by?

Given his associations with terrorists (Ayers and the weather underground), and hate mongering pastors (Reverend Wright), and don’t forget his study of the tactics of Saul Linskey, the type of ”change” that he is bringing to Washington probably seems perfectly normal to him.

My fellow Americans. It is up to us to help him understand that this kind of bullying behavior gets you sent to the principles office, gets you arrested, makes you a public nuisance. Which is what his philosophy of the “community organizer” is all about. It stems from the idea that the, “squeeky wheel gets the grease”.

In his little, selfish, anti-establishment, let’s get the man world, it is normal, even lauded. You make a stink, somebody notices and then maybe you can scream loud enough that people will want you to shutup, so they will address the issue you are screaming about to get you to disappear. It’s like a kid throwing a tantrum in the grocery store. They kn ow that you are going to do what they ask because you want to stop the screaming. My kids did the same thing until they learned that when they got home they got spanked and lost their privileges. Of course that would be too barbaric for today’s acquiescing parents that think they can reason with a three year old and are too full of themselves to realize they are getting played by that three year old.

So, while the Obama administration seems to be honorably dealing with the made up swine/Mexican flu, he plays slight of hand with other issues: Gun control, the gaffe with the vouchers in DC schools that are working, the medical research funding that he is planning to boost from 4.7 billion to 429 billion dollars, the closing of tax shelters for the nations wealthy, Supreme Court nominees to change the balance of power to the libs and set a precedent that does not rely on the constitution and the rule of law but on feelings and compassion(see my blog on that issue), downplaying the national day of prayer, ramming his socialist, yea even Marxist, plan for America down our throats while we are covering our self-absorbed noses about the lie of a swine flu epidemic.

For Pete’s sake Americans, the flu virus kills 35000 people a year in this country and we have a vaccine every year.

You better be keeping an eye on what the magician is doing in his left hand cause his right hand is hypnotizing you just like his Hollywood star status did to the minions that marched trans-like into the voting booth.

The plan is, get it in place before the American people come out of their trance. Because if they do come out of it before he can get much of his agenda in place. He knows that we will be putting the brakes on his little power grab trip like a mom stops the eating of her hidden chocolate bar by the toddler of the house.

Stay tuned for what you can do to join the war on our borders, language, culture, and Constitution.

Oh Nobama to Raise Medical Research Spending from 4.8 billion to 429 Billion or More

May 6, 2009 in Spending it like it grows on trees by cvlambson

President O’Nobama publicly shared Specter’s concern about funding for research last week at the National Academy of Sciences. Obama bemoaned, On CBS’ “Face the Nation,”what he described as insufficient funding for overall scientific research, pledging to make a “historic” investment with the goal of directing 3 percent of the country’s GDP toward such research and development

I started wondering about what we were going to pay for O’Nobama’s increase in money spent on medical research. I checked the GDP and found that in 2008 our GDP was 14.3 trillion. What would he do? double the expenditure maybe? Tripling it would be way out there right?

How much would O’Nobama’s increase be?

14.3 trillion multiplied by .03.

that’s 429 billion. Isn’t it. That’s actually a 424 billion dollar increase from the Bush years. How can that be? Where is it going to come from? What are they thinking?

For a clue, realize that the defense budget is a little bigger than that right now. My guess is, that’s where he’s going to get it. Slash defense, put it in research. You thought our vulnerability was increased in the Clinton years. He makes Clinton look like a five star general.

How in the world does he continue to get away with this? It’s very simple, if you didn’t already know it. Nobody asks him questions.

He says it, it must be true, and no one in the media calls him on it. How else would you explain it when he is able to say, straight-faced that now is a time for fiscal responsibility when his projected debt will be more than the debt created  by all presidents from GW to GWB combined.

Heaven help us; we have Socialist in the White House.