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| Barack Obama and Tim Geithner rob Main Street of $3 trillion |
| 2009-02-12 |
| "The sparkle has gone from his eyes already," an American acquaintance said to me yesterday, referring to Barack Obama. "He doesn't know what to do." Obama's performance at his press conference confirmed that impression, with the rhetoric of the campaign trail, fluent and banal as piped musak, replaced with long hesitations not just between sentences, but between clauses. This was an auto-cue junkie suffering cold turkey. When a political lightweight is out of his depth, he seeks to compensate by counterfeiting the certainty he is far from feeling. Obama's rantings in defence of his stimulus plan have assumed an apocalyptic intensity. Unless Congress agrees to flush almost $1 trillion of Joe Citizen's hard-earned bucks down the sanitation, "Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse." So, America had better listen to the man who "screwed up" over Tom Daschle because he alone has the wisdom to extricate the US of A from financial disaster. The instrument of salvation is the biggest barrel of pork that the undeserving needy have ever seen in American history, from sea to shining sea. The financial crisis may seem complex, but the solution - the real solution - depends on one simple premise: tax cuts revive economies, handouts do not. Trillion-dollar giveaways are like buses: there will be another one along in a moment. Driving the next vehicle is Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who thinks it would be a nice gesture to hand another $2 trillion to Gordon Gekko and his pals on Wall Street. Apparently the last handout made no appreciable difference, so better throw some more moolah into the piranha pool - some of those poor SOBs are down to their last executive jet. Where will the money come from? No problem - we just divert it from Main Street to Wall Street, an increasingly familiar route to those in the White House and on Capitol Hill who specialise in redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich. This seems to be in addition to Geithner's $0.5 trillion scheme to stimulate spending in real estate, drawing cash largely from the US Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. So, overall, Barack and Tim are currently disposing of more than $3 trillion of taxpayers' money. The only remotely comparable stimulus scheme proposed for America was a fictitious one: when the James Bond villain Auric Goldfinger planned to detonate a nuclear device in Fort Knox and irradiate the nation's gold reserves. Incinerating $3 trillion in dollar bills could not be more wasteful than the Obama stimulus plan. It is madness. These lunatics are mugging Main Street of $3 trillion and squandering it on a liberal fantasy. It could be a generation before America recovers - not simply from the loss of these funds, but from the economic mismanagement of which it is a symptom. The fall-out will be very serious for the rest of the world. Hope? Change we need? Vote in haste, repent at leisure. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 The greatest swindle in history. For now on pay me with FCX stock. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-02-12 17:26 |
| #2 Don't expect a Truth Commission on this one ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-02-12 11:28 |
| #1 So at what point could someone bring to trial that these appropriations should be reserved for the annual budget and these packages are outside of the federal budget procedure, making them unlawful? Second, in the spirit of windfall oil revenue, when can we get our tax break for windfall federal tax expenditure? Third, P.O. was right when he said he was going to inject the money into the segment of society which will most likely spend it fast - government. Fourth, if Wall Street wants to be anything other than the slaves of incompetent lawyers they better come clean - even start making noise about the corruption of congress. That would be you shareholders as well. I believe people who invest/follow stock prices make money and/or know how the economy works. I don't trust any poll that says a politicial has an approval rating of +60% as an indicator of confidence what I do trust is the market. Someone can be both popular and wrong at the same time. Back in high school I had a chemistry class with the big time basketball player - fun guy, everyone liked him, but I sure didn't like getting teamed with him during a lab and was bottom 1/3 in class grades. Any rate, not going to invest in markets till they get off the gov tit and will have no confidence in the 2nd grade pagent of a congress and the high school pop jock acting president. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-02-12 11:03 |