Money ain't a thang

A week after basking in the glow of swearing into office our first black president, the federal government has gone and pissed in everybody's Cheerio's once again. It is just a little surprising to me that it is everybody's favorite party boy, President Barack Obama, in the driver's seat.

In the face of falling GDPs and high unemployment rates, the good old boys up in D.C. have decided to turn to what they do best to help the economy recover. The "plan" (and I use that word loosely) is to pump another $825 billion dollars into the economy through infrastructure projects and other federal spending. The thought process is that if people don't have jobs, then the feds will provide money to local governments and other programs who will then go on a hiring spree and put to work all those disgruntled former Lehman Brothers employees.

If history has taught us anything (and by history I mean a couple of months ago when we printed up another $700 billion bundle of joy) then most of these funds will mysteriously vanish into mid-air and never be heard from again. As much as the banks have robbed the taxpayers of America, I really believe that the feds are about to get their hand in the pot as well. Call me a skeptic, but it appears after they saw how easy it was to dial up a couple of billion in the name of rebuilding the economy the federal government decided that they were going to get theirs too.

The initial post of this blog was to wake up. I'll say it again for more emphasis WAKE UP. You don't just print up abunch of money and create more government programs and change things economically. You just don't. That doesn't change the far too burecratic and meddling tax system we have and it doesn't provide the main driver of our wonderful little world, incentive. Has America become so soft that we will just kick back and wait for the government to help us out of this? What in the world is $825 billion more really going to do to improve our standard of living? The one certain that will come from it is inflation, and I'm sorry but you can keep that crap.

The defeated ones, aka the Republican Party, are attempting to kill this thing and rightfully so. It just so happens that they aren't going to be able to do a thing about it because all of you special voters out there handed the Democratic party keys to the car. This isn't some diatribe to espouse more partisan B.S., but rather a commentary on how our government is about to drop what amounts to most third-world country's whole economy on some roads and "more help for states to provide contraceptives through Medicaid." You can't be serious right? We are being stolen from and quite frankly I don't know that there is too much myself or anyone else is going to do about it.

There are a lot of different points I could make with all of this such as America's entitlement mentality bringing us down, a governing body's natural lust for more money and power, or even simply that they could at least lower a brother's taxes with this package. I was checking and the taxes taken out portion of my W2s looked like a Jodie Meeks boxscore the numbers were so high. Regardless, I'll stop this nonsense and leave you with this. The government takes more and more of our liberties and freedoms everyday. Whether it be in the form of a law against not wearing a seat belt or continuing a war on drugs that is being lost faster than freshman girls lost their innocence at UK in 2004.

This isn't someone else's doing ladies and germs, this is OUR government. We control them not the other way around. Sadly, the more they pull stunts like this the less and less I can believe what I just said.

For the record this is the piece I read right before I was going to post something about how 3 in 4 women globaly now want Patrick Patterson to be their baby-daddy.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/01/26/gop_leaders_balk_at_stimulus/?page=1