He ain’t heavy, he’s my stimulus.

Here we are, about a 1/3rd of the way through the $787 billion budgeted stimulus plan and we have so many naysayers talking about how the Administration has failed and/or the stimulus didn’t work. Here is where I have some fun. It is literally ignorant and irresponsible to refer to something that is only a 1/3rd of the way through as a failure. Now the Wall Street Journal has already this week showed us in ‘living color’ the hypocritical nature of a bunch of Republican congressmen/women who took the stimulus money for their individual states and championed to their people as to how some jobs were created and saved and/or the money was put to good use. However, when it came down to actually giving any credit politically to the Administration they have nothing but contempt and criticism for the stimulus. Even worse, they have in turn led some of their more impressionable and/or closet racist followers to believe that failureof the stimulus is the case. I will try to help put the stimulus into a more ‘here’s the bottom line’ type of speak so that even the cheap seats can follow. ( A rather sarcastic sports reference) Thank you very much!

Much of the first 1/3rd of the stimulus was to maintain social services and government jobs and to provide tax cuts for workers. Now, the pace and direction of stimulus spending are about to change.

Infrastructure spending is on hand for year two of the stimulus program.  Private-sector employers will benefit a lot more from this. The way I look at it. Those private businesses that are run by Republicans that would rather keep a partisan stand to spite their businesses getting money to help them gain momentum or hire and/or keep employees should refuse the money and it should be noted so that when the money helps other businesses the partisan bullshit won’t hold water. I wouldn’t allow them to take the money then around election time have Rush or Glen of the mouth. ( My clever stool spouting reference ) Thank you very much!

Note this: Many Republicans leaders have criticized the relative lack of private businesses hiring directly attributed to the stimulus.

Oh what tangled web we weave when we weave webs…. (My clever Bushism) Thank you very much!

This week is the stimulus program’s one-year anniversary. Is there anyone who can with a straight face say that it didn’t keep us from going into a deeper recession? Not to mention that the stimulus is still largely incomplete.  It’s still got a whole lot more to do. That’s why it’s easier to mis-inform and scare you about it now so that they have more ammunition bearers to help with the Tea Party, Lunatic party or radicals party mis-information gatherings..

Most of the money alocated to specific projects hasn’t been paid out yet, and there are still an additional $195 billion in tax cuts on the way. Let me repeat that again. $195 billion in tax cuts money on the way. How impressionable and feeble minded do you have to be to see that as a ‘fail’ , a bad thing, communist or a Government takeover? A takeover of what, help and assistance?

The bulk of the money proposed for projects like new rail lines and water projects, about $180 billion, will be spent this year.

Now the first year of Infrastructure spending didn’t really have a big impact on net employment, simply because a lot of the activity was mechanized. Do you really think there won’t be any jobs created from the aforementioned rail lines and water projects?

Many agencies have been holding competitions to decide which projects should get stimulus grants, vetting applications for grants for initiatives such as high-speed rail construction or electric-vehicle projects. In some cases, federal agencies have had to go as far as set up entirely new programs. There has also been $20 billion allotted for doctors to create electronic medical records, $4.5 billion for an energy Smart Grid and $7.2 billion for broadband networks. You will see this probably towards the end of this year to early next year.

(Do you start to see a pattern here?)

I used to wonder and get angry at how Obama could be so cool, calm, collect and quiet when confronted by all this bullshit. I am now beginning to get the picture. Many of the radicals and naysayers tried to make it seem as though if the seas didn’t part and everyone wasn’t running around in new jobs and a ‘Barney’ type of euphoria after the first year, that Obama failed, the stimulus failed, the bailout failed and Cash for Clunkers failed. This is not the case people.  Spending by state and local governments has about the same effect as spending in the private sector, and not cutting a job has a similar macroeconomic impact to creating a new one. Recipients of stimulus money say they are currently funding the jobs of about 595,000 people. However, in reality, as many as two million jobs have been supported directly or indirectly by stimulus money. Government data has indicated that most of the jobs supported by stimulus spending belonged to public employees at the state and local level, including about 325,000 teachers and school staff. This cannot be a bad thing can it? I didn’t vote on Bush for his first term but I did for his 2nd term. I just didn’t think Kerry could do the job. If Bush had made these choices I would applaud him. Funny part is, so would most of the Republicans downplaying the choices right now. Subsidizing those jobs avoided layoffs, or state and local tax increases that could have further undermined the economy. But they didn’t result in substantial hiring of people who had lost private-sector jobs. Let this thing play out people. Check out the chart below and hopefully it can help to shed a little more specificity into the stimulus breakdown.

Until next time my friends. WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION!

Oh no they Did-Int!

 

Every once in a while I like to do a sort of roll call of idiocracy and ferver. In the days of old, scandalist and ignorants were sounded off and paraded likes murderers and theives in front of the masses. It was a sort of reckoning. Well this is now the start of a full blown revolution of reckoning. That’s the thing of about revolutions. They come back in your face. Well, there are a few people that I will be mentioning below that I would like to give a formal invitation to.

                                                                                           WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION!

 

Rush Limbaugh -

                               Limbaugh has said that the Obama’s administration would use the quake in Haiti to “build ‘credibility’ with the black community. Not just regular negroes mind you. He has been a little more specific and said both light-skinned and dark-skinned blacks across  the country. He says that Americans have already donated to Haiti. In the form of  U.S. income taxes. He insists that money donated through Whitehouse.gov wouldn’t end up in Haiti. Also, anyone donating through this site would find their e-mail addresses receiving fundraising appeals from the Obama administration. This is GALACTICALLY WHACKY! First of all, the Whitehouse.gov website just list other Better Business Bureau backed donations links. Like The Red Cross or the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund. The Whitehouse.gov site has no Pay Pal account and does not receive or route the donations itself at all. The statement was completely ludicrous. Now does this matter to Rush? No. There has also been no evidence or mechanism for gathering your personal information from this procedure of CHOOSING A CREDIBLE DONATION LINK.

Rush seems to think that being an obese, drug addicted blowhard that spews separatist fuel on a daily basis somehow makes him an American and everyone that disagrees with him a communist, socialists, reverse racist, etc… I just want to let Rush know that I agree with his right to be ignorant. I just don’t agree with disguising it as patriotism. Just call us all a bunch of niggers, wetbacks, jews and gays and get it over with Rush. Most of us are already hip to your agenda.

Glen Beck -

                           This guy just amazes me. I still am at a complete loss as to how anyone actually listens to him. He stated that the Obama Adminsistration’s Health Care package would provide health care for dogs and that you, ‘Joe Citizen’, would be stuck with the cost. He said he didn’t think Americans should pay for your dogs cardiologist. I’m sure the people that follow him probably gasped and said “that damn Obama is trying to give healthcare to dogs?” “The Government is taking over!”  WRONG-OOO!

Beck likes to take snap shots of paragraphs and morph them into his little web of ’ridiculisms’ . (I made up that word)

In the actual  House bill is the creation of a Public Health Workforce Corps to address shortages in the public health workforce. The program would provide scholarships and education loan repayment assistance for public health professionals serving in areas of need. Veterinarians are included among those public health professionals. The rationale is that with mad cow disease, swine flu and other animal-borne diseases and issues, It only makes sense to create more and better trained individuals.

Mr. Beck, I know you may be busy preparing more ‘Obama is the Devil’ material for your show but I just wanted to invite you to a litttle get together. Welcome to the Revolution!

Michelle Bachmann -

                                                   Now this lady is a complete piece of work. She graduated from Oral Roberts University. That in itself is admirable. However, she also opened a school in Minnesota in 1993 called the New Heights Charter School. She ended resigning as the school was embroiled in controversy over accusations of using public tax money to basically fund a religious school. She and other members of their board of directors were critisized from parents for not allowing the kids in the school to watch the Disney film ‘Alladin’ because they felt that it endorsed withcraft and promoted paganism. This is the type of mind set we are dealing with here. Just recently she stated that in the 1970’s the Swine Flu also broke out under Carter,( Democratic President),. She then says that another epidemic started under Obama, who is another Democratic President. She noted that this was quite the coincidence.

First of all, the Swine Flu scare that came out in 1976 was under Gerald Ford. A Republican President. (The scare began in February 1976 when recruits at Fort Dix, N.J., came down with flu symptoms, and one died. This led to fears of a pandemic.) Now that doesn’t matter to me, but I’m not a lunatic. Another epidemic briefly surfaced in 1988. Under Ronald Reagan. (Swine flu also surfaced briefly in 1988, killing a woman in Wisconsin who had visited a swine exhibit at a county fair.) Now I’m not stating these facts to be critical or to imply something sinister regarding the Swine Flu and the Republican Party. Michell bachmann was though, and she had a lot less information to display than I did and her intention was just that. An implied thought to put into the mind of some people that were probably alrready trying to balance their predjudices regarding the new President. However, lunatics in power with a medium to scare seem to be allowed to get away with anything they want to say or imply. It may be a right, but their is also a right to let them know how full of shit they are.

“Paging Mrs Bachmann, Paging Mrs Bachmann!”  WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION!

        Stay focused readers, don’t let the lunatics win. They may have the platform, but we ultimately have the power. We just need to spread it.

                                                     Keep your head up folks.

“Next stop….Scaryville USA…All Offboard”

While I have been writing my book I have stayed away from writing any new posts regarding todays politics. I thought I would sit back and just see if the hatred for Obama being voted in as President would eventually just kind of fade away and politicians for the most part would begin to move toward doing the right things for their constituents. NOT!
It’s still very apparent that the hatred of equality, racism and indiffence still seem to have a place in power. I see myself as middle of the pack intelligent. I have my issues with doing the right things in my own life. However, my actions affect myself, my friends and my family. I am not in a place of so much power that my daily ignorances can affect the lifes of so many. Ladies and gentlemen this is where our elected officials are the most important. We expect and hope that they will allow our best interests to drive their opinions and effforts. This is the basis of voting someone into office. Our elected officials are now for the most part what I believe is what is holding this Country back. I know that my idea will not be widely embraced, but I believe that we should have another round of elected officials. Those without party distinctions, but common sense. It is apparent that there will be no accord between Republican and Democratic Politicians. Partisan objectives show no sign of slowing down and that is apparently never going to stop. If a Black President can’t be enough motivation for politicians to come together then they never will. It is now up to us citizens to just accept that and move on with another branch of Government. We can call them ‘DemoRubs’. Sorry Independents just sounds too weak for me. As DemoRubs what we would be called on to do is to actually evaluate matters of importance and change in this Country and spread those actual facts to the American people. That doesn’t mean that I would gather a bunch of brothers in an auditorium and say, “man we need reparations’, just as I wouldn’t expect a room to be gathered to say that we need to break off from the rest of the Country because there is a scary Black man in the White House. It’s a two way street. We cannot allow the wheels of evolution and progress in this Country to be decided by white men between the ages of 55 to 75 years old. I wouldn’t expect a group of black men between the ages of 55-75 would be a basket of fairness either. That’s is just not common sense. No offense mind you. I’m not a racist at all. However, men that have had the majority of their adult lives with the reality of most other races being below them can’t be expected to see things completely equally. How can they? When I was a kid, if you went into any of the barber shops that my dad took me to, believe me, you wouldn’t expect those guys to be very partial if they were in a position to control votes and speak for so many. They wouldn’t be fair minded about it. Even if they didn’t want to admit it. Human nature is exactly that. Human. That doesn’t make it right, however, it does make it so. I’m not in anyway implying that people over the age of 55 are all racists regardless if they are black or white. I am saying that it may be inherently harder for them to change. I mean, without the help of many white people, slavery would never have ended. Civil rights would never have been passed and lastly, Obama would never have been elected. However, politics just like everything else in this World, needs to evolve as well. I propose that people of all races and ages above 21 should throw their names in the hat for a seperate form of elections. Call it a kind of watchdog group or civilian oversight group. People would have to still be vetted. However, lobbyist and Corporate entities cannot be a part of the process. I think we can get a lot more done if that were the case. At the very minimum, it would cut down on the amount of mis-information and rebel rousing. To those naysayers that would believe that it would be too hard to get that implemented. WHAT ELSE IS BEING IMPLEMENTED RIGHT NOW OUTSIDE OF SEPERATION AND HATRED?
Let me know what you think America.
NOTE: For all you radical conservatives out there who will look at this without thought process, let me help you out.
I definitely drink too much. I probably smoke too much weed. I can be a little self centered at times. However, I’m a great son, friend, brother and father. I am also the LAST person you want to have a public debate with. Think about that before adding an ignorant comment or response. Add a contact website or email address so that my response can’t be hidden for lack of bullshit.
Friends?