Stimulus and Jobs, What a waste!
It’s time for one of my Grandfather’s favorite curses – “Dag-nabbit!” Now, I have no idea what that means, but it was useful around children in his day, and it’s printable.
Why am I upset? Well, dag-nabbit, wake up and look around you! I’ve given President Obama credit for a few things he’s done, and for a couple of speeches where he wasn’t apologizing for America being such a bad country, but he just keeps giving me more to be angry about.
What has raised my ire, this time, is how the stimulus money is being spent, how the stimulus money is not being spent, and how he is now asking for more…you guessed it, stimulus money! This time, it’s in the guise of a “Jobs” bill, but even the democratic spokesman accidentally said, “… we’re not supposed to call it a stimulus bill, it’s a jobs bill.”
OH, well, that makes it okay with us stupid Americans; we’ll love a “Jobs” bill, but no more of that stimulus garbage.
This administration, and the democrats in Congress, thinks they can help us by just continuing to throw more and more money at the problem – money we don’t have and will have to borrow. In just a few months, they have raised America’s debt ceiling to 12.4 trillion dollars, and then again to 14.3 trillion dollars.
The interest alone is enough to choke a whole herd of horses, and a child born today will be in debt, to the government, (actually China and Japan) their entire life.
Where is all this money going? No one actually knows! That’s right, a couple of hundred billion has gone out the door, and the administration’s recovery.gov website has been filled with so many holes it could be a fishing net. Hundreds of millions show to have been spent in areas of the country that don’t exist!
Districts that live only in some web bureaucrat’s imagination have created countless jobs with your money! In some places, every job supposedly “saved or created”, with your money, cost as much as $6 million per job. Isn’t that a sweet deal? If that job creates $6,000 per year in taxes paid, it’ll only take a thousand years to get your money back.
At least we now know where $383,000 of your money went. It went to a school district in Georgia that then used it to send 184 teachers, principals, and office staff to a Hollywood, California spa hotel for a conference. There, they will learn to be better teachers, administrators, and, I guess, typists. The jobs saved were apparently those of the hotel and spa employees.
I can only assume there were no such hotels near Georgia with jobs that needed saving. Aren’t you proud of your government’s generosity? Oh, did I mention it was YOUR money they spent? The district said this money was better spent here than on needed school supplies.
Can this administration, and congress, not understand the history of our economics? Proven over and over again is the concept that higher government spending, with the following increase in taxes, does nothing but create inflation, decrease jobs, and hurt the economy.
Progressive plans for a more ‘just’ society only hurt all of us, including the ones they proclaim to help. Instead of giving the poor man a handout, cut taxes so an entrepreneur can give him a job. “But, no,” they cry, “We must help the downtrodden.”
Idiots! How many times must that man tell you he’d rather have an opportunity than be forever banished to the world of the financially disabled by government handouts? How many times must we, the people, have to pay for your great dreams of ‘equality for all’ at the expense of those with skill, imagination, and the daring to create new opportunities for all. Tax CUTS are the answer, not more wasted spending.
Now, let’s all applaud those new and improved Georgia educators as they return to their classrooms without the school supplies they need, but with a better understanding of how to use them…if they only had them.
Roger Haley retired from the US Navy with a degree in Aviation Management. He is a columnist and author, with two books to his credit.
His articles on money, personal finance, and the economy, are widely distributed on the web and are much sought after.
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