Poisoning the economy

Townhall.com ^ | February 3, 2008 | Roy Innes

[ari-freedom]

the funny thing is...this ‘stimulus’ won’t help the economy and it won’t increase the bureaucracy the dems want for patronage...so what’s the point? It doesn’t do anything for anybody

[rellimpank]

---Congress and the White House, Democrats and Republicans finally agree on something--

--as the old saying goes, the inmates have taken over the asylum--

[Truth29]

Ah, the stimulus package does do something - it protects incumbent politicians. It will lessen any reaction that a sharp recession would have before the election to "throw the bums out." Incumbents of both major parties want to quiet any widespread electorate outrage and keep the sheep asleep.

[sionnsar]

so what’s the point? It doesn’t do anything for anybody

It makes the politicians look good to the ignorant masses.

[Nuc1]

Plenty of truth here.

[genghis]

when was the last time dims and pubs agreed about something and it made things better?

[tbw2]

It creates green collar jobs that happen to be blue collar jobs with a new dye job - thus helping labor unions.

[montag813]

During the SOTU speech, my wife and I looked at each other is stunned silence as Bush proposed “investing” billions of dollars in a “Competitiveness” effort, by which the government would make grants for industries to “increase our competitiveness”. Is capitalism dead in the GOP? We are to seize taxpayer dollars out of the economy, trust lifetime government bureaucrats who never ran a successful business in the real world to then dole them out to whomever they in their infinite ignorance think are worthy of “investment” for the future economy? Why not just cut taxes to all businesses and let the “competitiveness” operate as it always has? What is wrong with Bush?

[Freiherr]

Raising tax is bad for the economy, so giving a portion back is good. At least for a triffle more we can put our own preferences first. Isn’t this where economy is all about.
As for the package it doesn’t put the slightest dent in a recession if it is due. Fiscal policy just doesn’t work.

[Rockitz]

These unlicensed physicians are prescribing aspirin to counteract the poisons they routinely inject into our economy, while they prepare even bigger doses of arsenic.

Thought you were talking about Big Pharm for a while.

[Bon mots]

Just what we need.

Wait until they decide to act on Global Warming too.

[businessprofessor]

I am bitterly disappointed with Bush on energy. I thought that he knew the energy industry and the need for energy competitiveness. His support of the Energy Act of 2007 was deplorable. He could have at least protested the lunacy of the bill. I know that Republicans stopped some additional terrible elements such as a country wide mandate for renewables and the windfall profits tax. He should have denounced the bill even if he was forced to sign it.

Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado is a voice of sanity in a sea of madness on energy policy. He speaks against mandates for certain energy technologies and bans on other technologies. I believe there are only 15 to 20 senators sharing his convictions. Unfortunately, he is retiring probably being replaced by a far left rat.

[Cacique]

btt

[mo]

What is needed are massive tax and regulatory cuts......

[mainerforglobalwarming]

The whole global warming nonsense shows just how phony politicians are. They do not care about the facts, the truth. All they care about is sounding like they care for the little people, so us common folk will vote for them in the next election. Well screw them. We need a leader to stand up and say that man made global warming is pure crap. We need to start building new refineries, power plants, start drilling and exploring for oil.

[ronnie raygun]

Good information! Yet we still have to vote for a candidate that WILL NOT DO A GOD DAM thing. Lemmings flock to the alter of Obama like “American Idol” Politicians flock to the alter of Mcain to seek employment in his administration, Oldsters flock to Hillary to give her a chance, because the 8 years her husband had were not enough. The huckster and Mctrainwreck have a back door deal to squeeze Mitt out of the picture. I cannot think of a worse time to have the circus pull into town!

[aquila48]

I did a double take when I saw the name of the author - Roy Innis?? The civil right guy writing a conservative piece on global warming?

What a pleasant surprise - also explains why you never hear of him anymore. The drive-by media must have blacklisted him since he veered to the right.

[Ronin]

I have wondered about that for years now.

[JasonC]

The point is to buy votes.

Pure and simple.