American Taxpayers Being Buried Alive, Like A Vestal Virgin Accused of Breaking Vows
Seneca, a Roman thinker for our time, left us the story of Gnaeus Piso, a man who played obstinacy to the point of absurdity. Gnaeus sentenced a soldier to death for the commission of a murder, but just before the execution was to be carried out, the man who was supposed to have been murdered showed up at the execution.
The Centurion in charge stopped the execution and reported the miscarriage of justice to Piso. Piso was enraged that his order was not carried out and condemned all three to death: the first for already having been sentenced, the Centurion for not carrying out the execution, and the man who was supposed to have been murdered for being the reason for the deaths of the other two.
Somewhere, the logic of this tragedy escapes modern man; just as the logic of Obama’s second stimulus of 50 billion escapes all those that are not part of the giant swindle that is designed to cripple the American economy and bring an ever greater number of people under the umbrella of the government payroll and direction.
In a last minute scramble to save some legislative seats for those Democrats still sucking the hind teats of the Obama Administration or at least for those few who still claim to be aligned with Obama, there is now a gigantic vote buying scheme that leverages all American taxpayers for generations to try and salvage one of the most miserable failures of an administration in American history. Using $50 billion to buy votes, a number so large that only mathematicians can grasp its enormity, the simple minded Harvard educated ‘sort of a professor’ who worked at community organizing until a Senate gig came along with a promise of a chance at the presidency, he is absolutely sure he can keep America from going bankrupt by bankrupting the country.
WASHINGTON — Appealing to a union crowd on Labor Day, President Obama on Monday is calling for a $50 billion investment in long-term infrastructure projects that the administration claims will stimulate the flailing economy, create jobs and refill the exhausted highway trust fund.
Though the infrastructure package is aimed at the next six years, the investment of $50 billion is intended to be a “front-loaded” expansion of the $814 billion stimulus package that emphasized shovel-ready projects.
“The plan builds upon the infrastructure investments the president has already made through the Recovery Act, includes principles the president put forth during the campaign and emphasizes American competitiveness and innovation,” reads a statement from the White House press office.
Congress has no appetite to enact a second stimulus and the White House insists that it will not seek one. But through a series of separate measures to be rolled out by the president this week, including a $100 billion research and development tax credit, a hiring incentives package for small- and medium-sized business and a $42 billion small business package already saddling the Senate, the tally is adding up quickly.
The infrastructure plans include the rebuilding of 150,000 miles of roads, 150 miles of runways, 4,000 miles of railways, a new air navigation system(hopefully, not designed to vector terrorists to their targets) and a new federal bank that presumably he will control to aid in restructuring loans to those who can’t afford the houses they buy.
Congressional Democrats see a painless way to pay for the stimulus by closing tax breaks on the oil ad gas industry so that the average American pays higher energy costs while Democrats continue to feed at the trough and the American economy is strangled even more to keep the Socialists in power.
The goals of the infrastructure plan include: rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads; constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of railways, enough to go coast-to-coast; and rehabilitating or reconstructing 150 miles of airport runways, while also installing a new air navigation system designed to reduce travel times and delays.
Obama will also call for the creation of a permanent infrastructure bank that would focus on funding national and regional infrastructure projects.
Administration officials wouldn’t say what the total cost of the infrastructure investments would be, but did say the initial $50 billion represents a significant percentage. Officials said the White House would consider closing a number of special tax breaks for oil and gas companies to pay for the proposal.
Obama made infrastructure investments a central part of the $814 billion stimulus Congress passed last year, but with that spending winding down, the economy’s growth has slowed. Officials said this infrastructure package differs from the stimulus because it’s aimed at long-term growth, while still focusing on creating jobs in the short-term.
The president hasn’t mentioned whether there will be tunnels for turtles or contributions to European banks or how many millions will be spent on mosques in Somalia and the Middle East.
As a topping on this pudding of corruption, Obama is urging the Senate to pass the small business bill that will offer temporary tax breaks and a $30 billion fund to help unfreeze lending. If the new stimulus is as pathetic as the first stimulus, there will be many rich Democrats and the rest of the country will be mired in poverty for generations.
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Now here are three geniuses to draw to:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/06/obama-major-infrastructure-spending/
I think we will just see less bucks!
The only bucks we are going to see are the ones squirreled away by union bosses, crooks, and the Socialist Elites, but we will see them once again when we send them off to our bankrupt governments of the future and when our grandchildren send them off to bankrupt governments of the future.
@ Skook,
. . . What a wonderful concept, . . . Obama will control allocation of funds toward innovation because he knows how to get the best bang for the buck. Does he not grasp how insane that sounds coming from a guy who is evidently clueless about everything that enters the Oval Office?
He appears not only deaf, but completely hapless. The American people are screaming at him that they don’t want government controlling their lives, and he translates that as meaning “please control our lives even more” and “while you’re at it politicize every process of dishing out taxpayer cash to ideological sycophants who have puckered up for so long their lips are permanently damaged.”
Someone should point out to the clueless one that “infrastructure” rebuilding will not help the balance of payments. If anything, shouldn’t he look for excuses to stimulate exports? Better still, . . . don’t spend another dime, and retrench on all fronts.
Is he single-handedly destroying the Democratic party on purpose? . . . Maybe it’s just me.
JR, you and I and many others know he has no plans to allocate funds for the benefit of the country: it is about Redistribution of Wealth to patronize the dependent classes, while funding International Socialism and allowing the Socialist Elites to stash away billions of American Wealth so that they, The Elites, can live in luxurious splendor for generations. And we have the fools who say, “I want the twelve months of work”, like it is a bonus check; and for this, they are more than willing to pick up the yoke of Socialist slavery for themselves and their children forever. All for jobs that disappear as fast as they appear, they create nothing and they leave nothing, just astronomical debt.
Apparently Obama is announcing some corporate tax breaks this week for capital investment. How does this make any sense in a recession during which corporations have over-capacity? Capacity contraction is the direction business CEOs are taking for good reason – it’s called “uncertainty.”
Ask small businesses and new entrepreneurs how this “tax break” vote-purchase scheme will work for them.
And all of this coming out of the pie-hole with no purpose, the least educated man ever to walk into any room, geeeez, this fool is almost as deranged as his mentor, SATAN.
IT’S time to clean out the WHITE HOUSE not REDESIGN it.
Yes, businesses are not hiring and not investing because they are not sure about the immediate and long range forecasts. Staying liquid during the worst recession since the Great Depression is what they are concerned with, capital investment is the least of their concerns: wondering how to conduct business in this atmosphere of Socialism and whether they can survive the rest of Obama’s tenure are far more important than capital investment during a period of mistrust over the government’s motives. There is the angst or fear that Obama will manage the recession until it becomes a full blown depression. The idea of him playing with a huge bank is probably one of the most frightening aspects of his regime.
In my personal opinion, the mismanagement of Fannie and Freddie brought us to the precipice and the same housing market continues to spiral out of control while Fearless Reader has beer summits and vacations between apologizing to dictators and international henchmen. The vast majority of Americans consider their home to be their investment of a lifetime; now, in a variety of ways, that dream is turning to ashes. Mr and Mrs America, who are not in immediate trouble with their home are not the consumers they once were; now they sit in fear and wonder when they will lose their jobs or businesses and their home will look like one of the vacant shells that deteriorate at an ever increasing rate. Yes this is the euphoria that elected our Marxist Simpleton turned to toxic mistrust: it is now mistrust rather than faith in the future that guides Americans, why invest when they may need those funds to keep or pay the horrendous property tax increases that appear to be in the future?
Confidence is the key word; without confidence, consumers don’t spend and businesses don’t invest, simple concepts that even the least among us can grasp. Yet with an obstinate belief in the righteousness of Marxist Theory, our great pretender maintains the steadfast descent into a Socialist dictatorship, destroying not only the confidence of Americans, but of the rest of the world toward America’s once formidable and unstoppable economy. But this half White Marxist is accomplishing what America’s enemies could only dream of accomplishing. Not Osama, Tojo, or Hitler could fathom of how to stop American industry.
Perhaps Obama will see the need to nationalize American businesses if they over extend, liquidate their stocks and bonds and install his own sycophants to run their company. Yes, that always inspires confidence in the future and to reinvest. Taking advantage of government programs also brings you under the auspices of the Fearless Reader, who understands his own theory of business under Socialism better than anyone else.
During his lifelong pursuit of washing his own brain in the detergent suds of Marxism, he has come to believe so devoutly in the tenets of Socialism, without ever previously applying any of the principles, that in his own indoctrinated mind he figures you apply Socialism and everyone is happy, steal from the producers and increase payments to the dependent classes and the system will work.
Unfortunately, community organizers only deal with consolidating power while using other people’s money to advance politically: a process that can function in the ghettos as long as you have foundation money and government money to advance your Socialist dreams. A community organizer cannot create wealth, he can only reallocate money and build a political coalition.
He is now running out of money and his coalition is falling apart. The only pretense of wealth that he can visualize is borrowing money and running the printing presses around the clock and of course these are two more reasons why American businesses are only concerned with staying solvent until Obama is out of office or until they can relocate out of the country.
JR, you should unleash your business acumen and expound on this subject even further.
Hussein knows the 2nd “stimulus” will have little chance of passage. He presented in in order to claim republicans are standing in the way of efforts to create employment. It’s a scam which won’t work.
I had just read yesterday that every congressman/woman was sent a ‘notified’ letter
and advice on OBAMA”s birth certificate from Kenya ‘,,BEING AUTHENTIC..’!
Yet, not one of our silver toned commentators is making it their story. Do they realize
that this will be the story of the century and they will be remembered as being afraid
to mention it? I am not a BIRTHER but when you read something like this you look
for someone else to tell you their version.
Would this be the reason that so many Democrats are speaking out about THEIR
TOTAL DISAGREEMENT WITH OBAMA TODAY? There was one campaign advertisement
showing a number of our pols stating that they did not back his OBAMACARE!
Your story on Pisco fits OBAMA so well. That is the reason that I wrote the above.
Keep up the fine work. You certainly do have an audience
@ Skook,
You’ve hit some nails squarely on the head here, the most significant one IMHO is, “A community organizer cannot create wealth, he can only reallocate money and build a political coalition.”
This is at the heart of this Presidency. Those who voted him into office should have understood what this individual was about to unleash on America by simply looking at what he had “accomplished,” with his life. This wouldn’t have required much analysis. The answer, to any breathing creature, should have been: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Those who voted him into office should also have asked themselves, “What has influenced him?” and “What has he spent his time participating in?”
There is not a single entrepreneur in this country managing a business who would have hired Obama. He would never have been provided an interview – his resumé would have ended his path to a job.
I still wonder why so many millions gave him a pass on his “associations.” We are all influenced by those who surround us.
BTW, someone should also explain to Obama that before a company takes advantage of a “deductible” expense, that company has to Spend the money. And it’s only after spending it that the company receives some relief from taxes. Listening to this goof, he appears to think the whole amount of the spending is a gift to corporate America.
I’m looking forward to hearing what CEO sticks his or her head out the window to praise this crap.
We will no doubt see some creative accounting measures implemented by the likes of GE. Where the rubber meets the road, we can expect to be provided with very humorous abuses of this scheme, like GE building a new plant in China, moving some items around the balance sheet, and getting a tax break on it from O. It should be rib-cracking funny.
Someone should also tell O. that his new idiotic tax-scheme-of-the-week will be a real boost to the Chinese economy since China is where any equipment purchased with his 100% write off plan will be coming from.
Obama is far too uneducated to understand that government should let businesses and the free market make the decisions on where and how to allocate capital.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. I’m in my final semester pursuing a bachelors degree in mathematics and let me just say, wow, this post was really poorly written and just flat out wrong. Bush’s bail outs were stupid and failed, Obama is going to leave office with gas costing a buck fifty a gallon (which says nothing about Obama except that the rest of the world’s economy is in waaaaay worse shape than we are) and unemployment rates far lower than anyone even tried to promise in the 2012 election process. I imagine that the reality (in that studies can easily observe and quantify this) that self identified liberals tend to be much more well informed, intelligent, educated, and productive members of society than their conservative counterparts that you will need to make baseless guesses towards the future but boy howdy some six years later and you could not have been more wrong. Please, please, please if you invested this much time, energy, and confidence in being completely wrong DON’T VOTE EVER AGAIN. You are not intelligent to govern yourself and definitely not capable of trying to govern other people. Do not vote; you’re just not smart enough to do anything but bastardize the process. You are what’s wrong with the western world, not some browner people who worship a slightly different deity half way around the world.
Let me think this over for a moment: $50 billion over 6 years, spent on the modernization of a rapidly aging infrastructure that the efficiency and competitiveness of America’s industrial and agricultural production are totally dependent on, vs. $601 billion in defense spending for a single year, which has pretty much gone on for decades… Which seems like the better investment?
What would have happened if we’d spent the trillion or so we pissed away in Iraq on infrastructure modernization and education? Would we have more to show for it?