A ‘Stimilus Package’ That Only Stimulates Government Spending, “Hooray!!!”

Adios Capitalism. It was nice knowing you. You know that principle fundamental that this country was founded on? No, not on the genocide of the American Indians or the enslavement of an indigenous African people. The concept that we were all free men (and only men at the time, sorry ladies). Free men who could go as they please, pay taxes to a deserving government, and go into business for themselves and only through their own intelligence, business strategy, and ability to adapt and persevere, create and turn this thing called a ”profit” and prosper in a land of opportunity called: America. And well as Darwin put it, so ironically on this being his 200th birthday, if you were weak, feeble, or scrawny, you would probably die and your species would not survive the up and coming era. There would be no larger animal species to protect you from the stupidity of ignorantly exposing yourself to the blood-stained fangs of a much hungrier and larger animal. You, your children, and your parents would most likely perish, and life would carry on without you.

You know this method has worked out for nature for hundreds, thousands, and millions of years (depending on what religion you believe in) quite well, might I add. See the thing about nature is, there was never anyone to interfere with its course before the need for harvesting fossil fuels and trees for paper ever were invented. Nature just ran its course, as the saying goes. I think that might have been America’s greatest attribute these past 235 we have been a country. Now look at us. Even our illegal immigration rate has plummetted significantly in the past 6 months. No one wants to come here, even illegally. I am dumbfounded. Oh wait, no I am not. Actually it all really makes sense.

Look, I am not about to start Obama-bashing. OK , well maybe a little bit. But only the same way I would bash any president making a bad policy decision and using fear to get his legislation passed. I am not some card-carrying Republican (like I used to be) who just hates liberals and Democrats and think they are all dumb and fiscally out-of-touch (well, I kind of do). But also, I am not like Rush Limbaugh. I want President Obama to succeed. Why wouldn’t I? The thought of wishing him a failing presidency is ludicrous. In the waking days of his presidency, President Obama actually has passed ethical legislation that I have supported with much devotion. Concepts like creating transparency in our government, capping his staffs’ salary, and publicly allowing Israel to defend itself as a Democratic nation are all notions I support alongside President Obama.

But 850 billion dollars to save ourselves with money we simply do not have, money we are about to print and honestly should not be printing, and money coming out of the tax payers wallet meanwhile trying to cut taxes, I honestly just do not get it. Fine let us backpedal for a moment. I am not holding President Obama solely responsible for the circumstances that he is about endure. All this fell into his lap courtesy of President “W.” We all know this. However, he can only keep holding “W” responsible for a year. That’s it. One year. After that this is all on him. I do not make the rules, this is just how it is unfortunately, and President Obama knows it.

But see there is a tinge of political hypocrisy here. Obama made it a point during his campaign in 2008 that government using fear in this country to motivate its people has always led our nation to its darkest moments in history. Anything from the slavery of the 1800′s, to the communist scare of the 20′s, to the internment of the Japanese people of the 40′s, to the Civil Rights movement of the 50′s, to “W” starting an unsolicited war in Iraq in 2003, to our Wall St. bailout last September, to Prop 8 being passed in California all fall under this very concept. So why oh why is Obama scaring the House, the Senate, all of Congress, and all of the American people into this notion if we do not pass this Stimulus Bill, we will all flounder and die! Why are people like General Electric’s C.E.O. who single-handily put the company’s stock to nearly 10 dollars on President Obama’s economic team? Why is  Treasury Secretary Geithner speaking at all, let alone about things that are not concrete and even make allusions to Wall St. still being able to get away with murder? Where is this ever-so-loved transparency?

I whole-heartedly believe in the concept of “having to spend money to make money,” but it sure is easier to do when the money is not yours and you have nothing personally invested in it, besides your legacy I suppose. As much as I hate saying it, I believe we need to let the economy bottom out. That is right, I said it, let it bottom out!!!  Sure the sting will seem unbearable but we will recover much quicker this way. It is a clean slate. Everyone has the opportunity to start from scratch. I know people will hurt, but not for as long. When has throwing money at a problem ever solved it? When, please tell me? By letting the economy tank, people who have saved their money, maintained their credit, and have planned and prepared will rise above and buy out failing corporations and plummeting real estate investments. This will create jobs and wealth and yes dare I say it, it will trickle-down eventually. It has too. It knows no other way. I just want to do this old school you know. Rip the damn the band-aid off!!! Let it heal on its own. Bring back capitalism, the very thing that made my Dad immigrate to this country and try do it for himself and on his own.

Right now our country and its government is running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Lost and aimless. The very thing that has made our country as prosperous as it is, is the belief in the small-business owner and our ability to invent new technologies that we can sell back to other countries. Lower business taxes, while you are it, lower all of our taxes, stop the spending, stop the printing, stop passing debt down to my grandchildren. Read the bill and then cut it in half. Do not ruin my life because you feel pressured to save the world! President Obama, you are a Constitutional Lawyer, you know better than this. I just hope to God, survival of the fittest trickles literally inside our government and gets rid of the hot heads and time wasters like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Yes, forget the partisanship, and while you are at it, forget meddling in people’s lives, and get back to work Washington!

Let’s Hear it from the mouth from today’s Politcal Soothsayer: Dr. Ron Paul

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