Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Obama Gets It Right And Gets It Wrong

The media has been telling us that Republicans are fighting for more tax cuts in President Obama's stimulus package which is what is holding it up. This is not exactly right. Obama's fight is with the Democrats who don't want any tax cuts included in the stimulus package. So it is Obama and the Republicans versus the Democrats on this one.

Nancy Pelosi (2008 World's Most Stupidest Person In The World Award winner) doesn't want tax cuts. She also doesn't want people having kids. According to her, federally funded contraception saves the federal government money, because I guess, there will be less kids for the Feds to feed. This is the kind of intrusion those of us who still think clearly mean when we talk about the welfare state. President Obama struck $85 million in contraception money from the stimulus bill in a correct effort to keep the bill as focused as possible. This was a win for the American people, and a serious blow to the Democrats - who quite frankly under their current leadership prove themselves time and time again not to be so American.

This small win is offset by the Democrats claiming victory by postponing the cut to digital TV by another four months. They've had three years to print up the coupons and set aside the money and they've failed, but somehow they think another four months will make it all work. You see, instead of stupidly playing to the crowd by printing up the stupid coupons for stupid people to think they were getting something for nothing, they just should have subsidized the converter manufacturers on the back end. But you see this is stupid of me to think, because there would be no press and no tangible gift to the American piglets from the teat of their government pig-mom. So unfortunately common-sense and smart business strategies lose out once again to the something-for-nothing new Americans and their perceived need to be taken care of. Oh, and by, "new" Americans, I'm not talking about immigrants, I'm talking about people who think the government exists to provide for them. 'New' Americans range in age from about 13 to 87, so don't get all generational on this one.

If the government can't provide $40 coupons to offset the cost of a mandated switchover to digital television (which is egregious to me to begin with), how can you possible still believe the government can do anything?

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