From Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionalry
- stim·u·lus
- Pronunciation: \ˈstim-yə-ləs\
- Function: noun
- Inflected Form(s): plural stim·u·li
- Etymology: Latin
- Date: 1684
: something that rouses or incites to activity: as a: incentive b: stimulant 1 c: an agent (as an environmental change) that directly influences the activity of a living organism or one of its parts (as by exciting a sensory organ or evoking muscular contraction or glandular secretion)
The Senate was to “burn the midnight oil”, “work through the night”, because after all President Obama says if we don’t pass this bill NOW, we may never recover. Of course there are many that say that if you DO pass the bill we may not recover. So they worked very hard, through the night, burning the midnight oil……… and went home at 8:30.
I can see the problem though, after all as our Fearless House Leader said the other day, for each month that we don’t act another 500,000,000 Americans become unemployed. So at least now we know why Obama, Reid and Pelosi are in such a hurry. (Of course it would seem that they have trouble with math, just like Daschle and Geithner do.)
In a speech to his troops in Virginia, (posh retreat, had to fly there on a private jet, probably having some more of that good $100/pound beef) Obama said this about the Bacon Wrapped Lardfest ‘stimulus’ bill.
Obama rejected calls for more tax cuts and significant slashing of the bill's more than $800 billion price tag, and said complaints the package was a spending bill rather than a stimulus bill were off base.
"What do you think a stimulus bill is?" he said. "That's the point."
So there you have it, the reasons they are trying to ram this through, it has nothing to do with the fact that if the average American actually looked at the bill, realized that less than 15% of the amount would be used in the first year and a half, and that the majority of the CRAP that is in the bill is nothing more than payoffs, liberal agenda, and blatant beginnings of socialism. (If we have to wait 18 months for the bill to really kick in……18 x 500,000,000 = 9,000,000,000 Holy Crap! That’s 9 Billion Americans out of work before the real meat of the bill starts to get used.)
So Mr. President, what do I think a stimulus bill is? Well I use the beginning of the definition above, while you, Pelosi and Reid are obviously using the tail end of that definition. This bill makes pig shit smell sweet.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan
In a nutshell, you want to get the economy moving, that is the target. Not big banks, not auto makers, not social spending, more government programs, and removing money from the economy which is what this bill would do in so many ways. Mr. President, you can take your “I won” arrogance and attitude, and stuff it.
Get to flipping work, stop campaigning, it’s time to set aside childish things. But then you won’t, I knew that a long time ago, the media didn’t bother to check you out, just like you didn’t bother to check out your cabinet nominees. Your voters didn’t bother to check you out, just like they have no clue now how congress created this mess in the first place.
The more you do, the more you say, the more the word inexperience, comes to mind.
We need Government to fix the crap that they broke, housing and banks, until that is done confidence will be hard to come by, and the more they don’t acknowledge or ignore their own faults in the root of the problem, again, confidence will wane.
We need Government to get the hell out of our way.
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
Get the hell out of my way Mr. President, and stop trying to take the future away from myself and my children. Stop throwing words like they are bombs, because they are, yes that makes everyone edgy, makes the crisis seem worse, but that in turn helps you try to jam this down our throat, doesn’t it?
The worst economy since the Great Depression? Today the news reports that unemployment cuts for January was the largest since 1974 (not the depression). 
"Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it)." – George Washington
The last two quotes are from your Inauguration speech Mr. President. You attack those who question your plans, who are concerned about the direction and seek answers, and seek counsel with you, to even meet part way, but all we get is more doom and gloom, more fear mongering, and more statements against the tired rhetoric of the past. If anyone's rhetoric is getting tired, it is yours Mr. President.
As of yesterday, as more of the Citizens of this Nation have learned what is in this bill, approval has slipped to 37%. I know Mr. President, I know Speaker Pelosi, I know Majority (gag) Leader Reid, we are but common folk, the people that lend that off odor in the Capitol Building during the tourist season, we don’t know all the things that you our gifted leaders do. You had best start listening to both sides of the equation not just for your own political skin, but also for the sake of our Nation.
The problem is you and many more that supposedly burn the midnight oil for our good, I mean even the Senior Socialist from Pennsylvania has previously stated he was willing to work Mondays, Fridays, evenings (8:30 is evening, not through the night) and maybe even weekends, you all seem to believe you know what is good for us, the problem is, you are not supposed to be doing things FOR us, you are supposed to be doing things that we want you to do in minute quantities, you are supposed to listen to the people, something you said you would do President Obama, is it time to run to Rite-Aid to pick up some new hearing aid batteries? Your biggest and toughest job is to show restraint, just like the hardest part of being a parent is letting them do things for themselves.
Right now, our voices are raising, we are attacking what is going on, we are becoming alarmed at one common danger and we are coming forth to meet it.
This almost 800 pages of bloat, and the campaign to jam it down our throats is nothing more than a blitzkrieg toward socialism, with a heavy dose of payoffs for good measure. It is corrupt, it is totally irresponsible, and most of all it is absolutely unconstitutional, it vests more power in the government while stripping it away from the people.
Lowlights of the Stimulus (refer to definition above) From National Review Online
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
Read the entire article, the lowlights are discussed in much more detail, read it, understand what is at stake, call/write/email/fax your representatives. If you have read it and you are for it, great, make your voice heard too, but this is nothing more that waste fraud and abuse, the blitzkrieg campaign for it is to get it passed before we, the enemy know what is there, to quietly Sheppard us into a new age of socialism something that has not been seen in almost three quarters of a century.
President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
From CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul
Gov. Mitt Romney has something to say about where we are, and the bill before the Senate:
These are extraordinary times, and like a lot of Republicans I believe that a well-crafted stimulus plan is needed to put people back to work. But the Obama spending bill would stimulate the government, not the economy.
We're on an economic tightrope. The package that passed the House is a huge increase in the amount of government borrowing. And we've borrowed so much already that if we add too much more debt, or spend foolishly, we could invite an even bigger crisis.
We could precipitate a worldwide crisis of confidence in America, leading to a run on the dollar or hyperinflation that wipes out family savings and devastates the middle class.
If something like the current bill is passed and signed, I have several things that I think will happen, first, the market indexes will tank big time, second, the layoff number for January will be overshadowed in February and March, last, the economy will not rebound for quite some time. I hope and pray that I am wrong on all three of those, but I don’t think I am. Only time will tell (unless some Senators in Washington wake the hell up and file this bill where it belongs, in the shredder bin).
