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!

Ok, enough of this crap! Bring on the socialism.

I wasn’t going to write too much regarding the health care reform issue because I thought that eventually all the lies and mis-direction being tossed around by some republicans and their radical followers would eventually stop. Well, it hasn’t.
I’m going to do my best to break this down in a sort of language that some people that are still not on board with reform can understand. That language will be FRIGGIN PLAIN OLE ENGLISH.

At this point and time health care is being run by 3 entities: The insurance companies, the drug companies, and Wall Street. They really decide who gets insured, for what, how much it will cost, what medicines they can pawn off on you, the cost and allowable doses. Now who is really in a position to kill grandma?
The insurance companies can raise the premiums on an average of 37% a year, the drug companies can continue to raise the costs of medications and Wall Street can assist in the free for all by providing the insurance companies and drug companies a running daily tally of how richer they are becoming. If their stock goes down in any way, RAISE THE COSTS OF THE COVERAGE AND MEDICINE.
The drug companies and the insurance companies cannot call the shots regarding medicare. You know why? Because it’s goverment run. The goverment, if allowed to intervene in health care, could regulate the insurance companies and keep them honest. They can provide sanctions and penalties for any types of price gauging. They can keep tabs on how much drug companies are charging for necessary drugs that help people. There aren’t any “death panels” either. The article 1233 in the house reform provision just allows for people to have ‘advanced directives’. Active military personnel, as well as veterans like myself, all have that option. It just allows for you to have doctors or nurse practioners to discuss your wishes should you become terminally ill, comatose or outside of your faculties. This allows a scenario where your family and/or doctors don’t have to guess what your intentions or wishes would be.
This is not brain surgery. This is understood by more people than the republican lawmakers are revealing. This is becoming more of an issue to defy the “Black President” than it is to actually look out for your fellow mankind.
We should actually strive for more socialism. Medicare and SSI are examples of socialism. These are avenues to where not only the rich and decision makers are covered or helped. These systems work. Some people argue that it would drive out some insurance companies and screw up their current coverages. Not true! The President has stated about a thousand times that if you like your current coverage you can keep it. The fact that there would be competition wouldn’t ruin the fabric of health care facilities any more than UPS or Fed-Ex has ruined the post office. Which is a goverment run entity by the way. Why is this so hard to understand? There have been more than a couple of republican lawmakers that have voiced their hopes that President Obama fails at health care reform. Is this the type of world we want to live in? Where partisan gamesmanship is the order of the day rather than humanity?
Some republicans and radical conservatives are asking what’s the rush. Why the need to push this through?
It took our goverment 250 years to free the slaves, another 100 years to give us equality. How many years did it take before women were officially able to vote and be equals? The time is now people. We aleady have a history of waiting too long to equal the playing fields. Below I’m going to add the definition of socialism and why it actually needs to be a way of life in many areas.

Here’s a synopsis of “Socialism” folks. Take a look, then follow down at the end of this post.

Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating state, worker or public ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of compensation. Contrary to popular belief, Socialism is not a political system; it is an economic system distinct from capitalism.

Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through exploitation, creates an unequal society, does not provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximize their potentialities and does not utilize technology and resources to their maximum potential nor in the interests of the public. Therefore socialists advocate the creation of a society that allows for the widespread application of modern technology to rationalize economic activity by eliminating the anarchy in production of capitalism[4], allowing for wealth and power to be distributed based on the amount of work expended in production, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how and to what extent this could be achieved.

So please people, don’t let hatred or animosity be the reason. Health care should be available to all.The Veterans hospitals can really be the model to follow. We, as well as all of congress and the senate, are a part of a goverment run health plan. Are we contributing to socialism? You’re damn right! Put you and your family’s health care decisions back in the hands of the doctors and youself rather than Wall Street, Insurance companies or drug companies.
Don’t lie and sabotage something just out of spite, partisanship or racism. Do the right thing people. If happen to see, or are in any way close to one of those crazy gun totin hostility buckaroos, please calmly inform them of the truth.
I guess that’s all for now.
Good morning, good afternoon & in case I don’t see ya, GOODNIGHT!