Monday, February 23, 2009
The Sky is Falling: Hurry Up and Wait!
Same old story, same old song and dance! I've seen it many times and I'm always amazed.
Paulson and the Bush administration yelled that the sky was falling in September 2008. We HAD to do SOMETHING NOW. If we didn't, the sky would fall and America would come crashing down. Hurry up, the pundits, politicians and analysts were screaming! Hurry up dammit! The bailout bill passed and...
5 months later and barely half of what was allotted for the financial crisis of a lifetime has been spent. And none of it was spent the way the EXPERTS told us it had to be spent. And nothing looks any different in the financial world.
Enter Barack Obama and his "Yes We Can" mantra of politics. His immediate priority was the Stimulus Bill. Lordy. Hurry up and pass this Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Plan or America will come crashing down around us. Who cares if this is the right bill or the right time or the right priority. Just pass it and hurry up about it or else.
It was so rushed through the Congress that NO ONE had a chance to even read it. Americans don't care if the government wastes money on pork projects, we were told. They simply want action and they want it now.
So the Democrats pass the bloated bill, the largest spending package in history, without even reading it! Even more amazing, the Democrats just days before passed a resolution stating that all appropriations bills would be posted on a web site for 48 hours to allow the American public to read and digest the bill, before it was voted on in Congress. It wasn't.
Then they pass the stupid thing and go out of town. President, I'm in a hurry to get things done, Obama, having watched his Congress pass the bill, then promptly goes on a three-day weekend and finally signs the bill in Denver to be out of the political spotlight.
Spineless and stupid. That's our congress and that's our president. As Obama declared during brief negotiations with Republicans, "We won!" So shut up and let us run things. I suggest we do just that.
Shut up our oppositions to this Liberal triumvirate in Washington. Obama, Pelosi and Reid can just drive the whole ship into ruin and that's just the way it has to be. Liberals need to hurry up and kill this economy and I will simply wait and see what is left after their carnage plays out.
I'm 57 years old and I believe I can outrun most of the idiocy that spills out of DC until I die. God help my daughter and grandkids, they have too far to run. The Sky is indeed falling and all we can do is....
Hurry up and wait.
OH
Paulson and the Bush administration yelled that the sky was falling in September 2008. We HAD to do SOMETHING NOW. If we didn't, the sky would fall and America would come crashing down. Hurry up, the pundits, politicians and analysts were screaming! Hurry up dammit! The bailout bill passed and...
5 months later and barely half of what was allotted for the financial crisis of a lifetime has been spent. And none of it was spent the way the EXPERTS told us it had to be spent. And nothing looks any different in the financial world.
Enter Barack Obama and his "Yes We Can" mantra of politics. His immediate priority was the Stimulus Bill. Lordy. Hurry up and pass this Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Plan or America will come crashing down around us. Who cares if this is the right bill or the right time or the right priority. Just pass it and hurry up about it or else.
It was so rushed through the Congress that NO ONE had a chance to even read it. Americans don't care if the government wastes money on pork projects, we were told. They simply want action and they want it now.
So the Democrats pass the bloated bill, the largest spending package in history, without even reading it! Even more amazing, the Democrats just days before passed a resolution stating that all appropriations bills would be posted on a web site for 48 hours to allow the American public to read and digest the bill, before it was voted on in Congress. It wasn't.
Then they pass the stupid thing and go out of town. President, I'm in a hurry to get things done, Obama, having watched his Congress pass the bill, then promptly goes on a three-day weekend and finally signs the bill in Denver to be out of the political spotlight.
Spineless and stupid. That's our congress and that's our president. As Obama declared during brief negotiations with Republicans, "We won!" So shut up and let us run things. I suggest we do just that.
Shut up our oppositions to this Liberal triumvirate in Washington. Obama, Pelosi and Reid can just drive the whole ship into ruin and that's just the way it has to be. Liberals need to hurry up and kill this economy and I will simply wait and see what is left after their carnage plays out.
I'm 57 years old and I believe I can outrun most of the idiocy that spills out of DC until I die. God help my daughter and grandkids, they have too far to run. The Sky is indeed falling and all we can do is....
Hurry up and wait.
OH
# posted by OH @ 10:25 AM 
