If you would like to see how Oregon is utilizing the ARRA "Economic Stimulus" funds received so far, trot on over to:
http://www.oregon.gov/recovery/StimulusReporting/index.shtml
and get a thumbnail sketch of all the jobs "saved or created" by Oregon's 2.2 Billion-dollar slice of pork pie.
Health and Human Services: 54%, or 1.197 Billion Dollars, Zero jobs created
Education: 6%, or 497 Million Dollars, Zero jobs created
Public Safety: 1.8%, or 40 Million Dollars, Zero new, a few police jobs retained
By county, an average of 2/3 of all funds went to Medicaid (gracias, muchachas!), about 20% provided food stamps (otra vez, muchas gracias), and almost 1% went to Vocational Rehab (I'll drink to that!).
Notice that not a dime went toward enabling job creation by private industry? Nothing in the way of tax reduction, credit for payroll increase, nothing.
When a Democrat One-Term President gets play money from a Failed Democrat Congress to "give" to a Democrat-run Leftist State, the result is: More Government Spending, ZERO private-sector jobs, and a tanking economy fueled by record unemployment, zero new home construction, and lots and lots of new State Government Employees and their $55,000 average salaries and their $20,000 annual benefits packages for you to support.
Feeling Stimulated Yet?
How Do You Spell "Thug?"
Friday, February 19, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
"You Shall Not Bear False Testimony..."
In today's news, President pro-tem Obama, our nation's latest one-term President, announced:
1: the creation, by executive order, of a "bipartisan committee" to study and seek ways to curtail his profligate spending habits, which habits would make a drunken sailor ashamed; and,
2: The cheery financial news that his trillion-dollar "Economic Stimulus Plan" has already "saved or created two million jobs" (excepting, of course, yours, mine, and anyone we know).
Both bits of financial "good news" are blatant misstatements of fact, whether deliberate or merely the rantings of a fiscal imbecile remains to be determined. Since the inception one year ago today of the ARRA (as in "Arra you still unemployed?), more than six million jobs have evaporated: as in poof! Those jobs "saved," at least within the zip codes which are not completely fraudulent, are overwhelmingly GOVERNMENT employees' positions (already taxpayer-funded) from teaching positions to Employment Office clerks. Big Deal: we get to keep all of the overpaid workers in our bloated governance systems, and their featherbed retirement programs too, oh, goody! I feel so stimulated!
As far as the committee's intended effort to trim waste from the Federal Debt, now exceeding SIXTY PERCENT of our GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT, which debt Obama did NOT inherit from the eeevil Bush administration, the obvious solution once again escapes our Financial-Wizard-in-Chief: STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE!! But, of course, so doing would thwart his master plan to completely decimate this country's economy, infrastructure, and Constitutional form of Government.
Don't believe me: Buy, borrow, or preferably steal Saul Alinsky's book, "Rules for Radicals." You will see that Obama follows to the letter the rules laid out for subverting a government. To the LETTER!
Hope and Change, my eye! Your children and your grandchildren are NOW doomed to life in a bankrupt, has-been, third-world shambles of a nation, bereft of "HOPE," unable to institute "CHANGE" save for learning Mandarin instead of English, and spending Yuans instead of worthless Dollars. Lock and load, my friends, Lock and Load.
1: the creation, by executive order, of a "bipartisan committee" to study and seek ways to curtail his profligate spending habits, which habits would make a drunken sailor ashamed; and,
2: The cheery financial news that his trillion-dollar "Economic Stimulus Plan" has already "saved or created two million jobs" (excepting, of course, yours, mine, and anyone we know).
Both bits of financial "good news" are blatant misstatements of fact, whether deliberate or merely the rantings of a fiscal imbecile remains to be determined. Since the inception one year ago today of the ARRA (as in "Arra you still unemployed?), more than six million jobs have evaporated: as in poof! Those jobs "saved," at least within the zip codes which are not completely fraudulent, are overwhelmingly GOVERNMENT employees' positions (already taxpayer-funded) from teaching positions to Employment Office clerks. Big Deal: we get to keep all of the overpaid workers in our bloated governance systems, and their featherbed retirement programs too, oh, goody! I feel so stimulated!
As far as the committee's intended effort to trim waste from the Federal Debt, now exceeding SIXTY PERCENT of our GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT, which debt Obama did NOT inherit from the eeevil Bush administration, the obvious solution once again escapes our Financial-Wizard-in-Chief: STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE!! But, of course, so doing would thwart his master plan to completely decimate this country's economy, infrastructure, and Constitutional form of Government.
Don't believe me: Buy, borrow, or preferably steal Saul Alinsky's book, "Rules for Radicals." You will see that Obama follows to the letter the rules laid out for subverting a government. To the LETTER!
Hope and Change, my eye! Your children and your grandchildren are NOW doomed to life in a bankrupt, has-been, third-world shambles of a nation, bereft of "HOPE," unable to institute "CHANGE" save for learning Mandarin instead of English, and spending Yuans instead of worthless Dollars. Lock and load, my friends, Lock and Load.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Where the Treasure Lies, There the Heart Lies Also
The economy is so bad... ("How Bad Is It?")
* I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
* I ordered a burger at McDonald's and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"
*CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
* If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
* Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
* McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
* Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names..
* A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .
* Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
* Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.
* The Mafia is laying off judges.
* Citigroup laid off 25 Congressmen.
* Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh Great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
And, finally...
* I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Pakistan , and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck...
Hat Tip: Cuz LK
* I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
* I ordered a burger at McDonald's and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"
*CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
* If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
* Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
* McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
* Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names..
* A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .
* Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
* Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.
* The Mafia is laying off judges.
* Citigroup laid off 25 Congressmen.
* Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh Great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
And, finally...
* I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Pakistan , and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck...
Hat Tip: Cuz LK
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Where The Worm Dieth Not
President pro-tem Obama has been in office for 390 days. His government overspends by some $4,472,727,272 .00 per day: that's the daily increase of our national debt, currently at more than $12 TRILLION. Last weeks blizzard effectively shut down Washington, D.C. at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $100 million per day. There seems to be an obvious solution here, like the man who was asked, "Why didn't you report the theft of your wife's credit cards to the police?"
His reply: "The thief is spending less than she did."
Let's just close D.C. for a few months and save a few hundred billion dollars per month, and perhaps even shave a chunk off of this Gehenna* of indebtedness wherewith we are sacrificing our own offspring to the gods of political power. Wouldn't the world be a lovelier place without Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Robert Gibbs, even if for only a few months? And our unborn children just might have a chance at not growing up in just another socialist banana republic failure of a country.
*Gehenna, for those of you who have not read the Old Testament, was the valley near Jerusalem where idolatrous Jews sacrificed their children to the pagan fire god, Molech. We, being so much more refined than they, merely sacrifice our children to the gods Greed (debt) and Vanity (cosmetic abortion), among others. Yessir, we've come a long way, baby.
His reply: "The thief is spending less than she did."
Let's just close D.C. for a few months and save a few hundred billion dollars per month, and perhaps even shave a chunk off of this Gehenna* of indebtedness wherewith we are sacrificing our own offspring to the gods of political power. Wouldn't the world be a lovelier place without Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Robert Gibbs, even if for only a few months? And our unborn children just might have a chance at not growing up in just another socialist banana republic failure of a country.
*Gehenna, for those of you who have not read the Old Testament, was the valley near Jerusalem where idolatrous Jews sacrificed their children to the pagan fire god, Molech. We, being so much more refined than they, merely sacrifice our children to the gods Greed (debt) and Vanity (cosmetic abortion), among others. Yessir, we've come a long way, baby.
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