THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 32, January 25, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
PASSAGE OF THE RECOVERY ACT: WHAT'S THE HURRY?
By Alan Caruba
THE SOCALLED "ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT" & THE ATTEMPT TO SHOVE IT DOWN OUR THROATS: PRESIDENT
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S ASSERTION THAT CONGRESS MUST ACT NOW & QUICKLY PASS THE "STIMULUS BILL" -- A
MUCH WISER COURSE: FOLLOW THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, MAKE FULL USE OF OUR SYSTEM OF CHECKS & BALANCES,
& HAVE PLENTY OF DELIBERATION & DISCUSSION BEFORE ANY PART OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERAL LEFTIST
POLITICAL AGENDA BECOMES LAW.
FULL STORY:
Excuse me, but weren’t we told, just before the Bush administration folded its tent, that we had to throw billions at
failing banks or the entire financial structure of the nation would self-destruct?
Remember that three-page memorandum from former Secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, late of Goldman Sacks,
that said give me $700 billion? Trust me. Yours truly, Hank P. (And now Congress is contemplating replacing him
with a known tax cheat!)
Remember how Senator John Sidney McCain stopped campaigning and ran off to Washington, D.C. to take part in
top-level meetings? And now, we hear, he will not vote for more billions in bailout money. Obama said next to
nothing. Now he says we have to ruin our economy by taking on the kind of debt that no one can begin to
comprehend.
There is far too much political theatre taking place and far too little of what the United States Constitution is designed
to do: ensure that there is plenty of discussion before any fad or fancy becomes law.
I simply distrust and dislike the appeals from President Barack Hussein Obama that say that this Mother of All Pork
Bills, an alleged “recovery” act, must be passed within a week’s time. That is no way to spend $825 billion and
upwards of a trillion dollars. Aren’t we already deep in hock to China and Japan?
I think that there are people in the White House and in Congress who think that the best way to serve themselves —
not the American people — is to panic us into accepting an extremely bad piece of legislation that is not going to
“solve” anything with regard to the current economic crisis.
Why has no one apparently learned the lessons of the Great Depression and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
famed New Deal? Nothing, absolutely nothing, that FDR and his merry band did shortened the Depression by one day.
Indeed, they stretched it out.
Ten years after FDR had been in office, his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., told the House Ways
and Means Committee:
“We have tried spending money. We are spending
more than we have ever spent before, and it does
not work.”
And this is why this socalled Economic Recovery Act has to be stopped in its tracks. It will spend billions, drive up
the deficit, and waste enormous sums on projects such as “clean energy” (coal and solar) when this nation needs
more coal-fired and nuclear plants, and an electrical grid upgrade that increases the amount of electricity to our urban
centers, not to some solar farm located hundred of miles away in a desert!
Our elected representatives are treating us all like children, like fools, like so much cattle to be stampeded into
running off a financial cliff that will devaluate the U.S. dollar and shackle succeeding generations to a level of debt
unseen since World War Two.
Do you think the present financial crisis will go away tomorrow, next week, next month, or even next year?
Do you think that thousands of spending projects will make any difference when comparable efforts in the 1930s
demonstrate that they won’t?
Do you think that money will actually get out into the economy any time soon?
Or do you think the government has to secure all that “toxic paper,” the loans gone bad, isolate it in a Resolution
Trust, and let banks get back to making loans? It is the bad debt that has everything stalled.
The government doesn’t create jobs. Private industry and business do that, but they can’t, if they can’t get the kind
of bank loans that permit them to function. Failing that, they begin to lay off people.
Write, call, fax and email your Representative and Senators. Tell them to slow down, to not vote for this obscene pork
bill.
As former President Ronald Wilson Reagan told us in his first inaugural speech,
“Government isn’t the answer to our problems.
Government is the problem.”
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business, science and political writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National
Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary,
"Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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