Liberals have a tendency to think that the more government equalizes everyone, the better off we all are. How can it be that when the government gets involved in our economy we get programs like 'cash for clunkers'? While everyone on the left touts that as a successful program the government spent approximately $18,000 of our tax dollars for each car they took off the road. Far cry from the $4500 your dealership got for trading in your clunker wasn't it.
Another of the great farces the government has perpetrated on us is the foreclosure stabilization bill they put through…the government has spent a whopping $800,000+ on each house they saved from foreclosure. They gave it to the banks. Now I'm not too sure my math is right here, but if the government bought a house for $150,000, they could have paid cash for 5+ houses for the one they saved from foreclosure and the 'owner' still has a mortgage to the bank. So for the 27 billion they spent to save some 33,750 homes from foreclosure they could have paid cash for 180,000 homes leaving the people who couldn't afford the homes they bought in the first place a home completely paid off…go figure.
Now don't get me wrong, I've been against the bailouts even when George Bush signed the first one, Barrack Obama signed the second one, when the bailed out AIG, the big banks, and GM and Chrysler, I'm against the extra bailout they are giving GMAC now because they just didn't get quite enough of our tax dollars the first time and now they want to "fix" the health care system in this country. Where the hell are their brains, does Harry Reid think he can bring a couple billion into the state and save his job? That couple billion is coming from you and me so why don't they just let us keep the couple billion and call it good.
It's amazing to me how the people on the left don't understand that when an organization that runs on the 'cheapest bid' philosophy, and can continually spend 5 to 25 times the market value for everything they touch, that they are corrupt. Harry Reid is a lawyer by profession and by all accounts, is now a rich one, but wait he didn't have a thriving law practice, he's been in government most of his working life. Hell I got into the wrong business, being a representative of the people is where you get rich. We sure do pay well don't we.
prp
Agree with you there. The Executive branch of the government could use a little chlorine...ok, how's about a lot!....to clean out the gene pool!
ReplyDeleteWhat they do to 'help' only 'hurts'. And I've heard that the consumers who benefitted from the cash for clunkers may have to file that benefit with the IRS so the government can get some of that money back!
That's why we're seeing sites like goooh.com and such. By the People, For the People!
-Rick