March 9, 2009
Trickle Down Poverty.
Vol. 4 Issue 2
It's
all Former President George W. Bush's fault
that there are close to 9000 "Earmarks" in
the
new Omnibus bill passed last week by the
Democratically controlled 111th Congress.
That is pretty much how it was spelled
out last Sunday (March 1, 2009) on "This
Week", with
George Stephanopoulos by OMB Director Peter
Orszag. "This is last year's business. We
want to
just move on. Let's get this bill done, get
it into law and move forward," Orszag said.
This
should have been Last year's business?
Who controlled congress last year? If it
was last year's business then the Democratic
Congress
didn't do its job last year. Only Congress
can spend money. With the Congressional
approval
rating at an all time low of nine-percent
(9%), is it a wonder that they didn't want
to put all those
earmarks in place. How low can you go?
However, being in re-election mode, why
antagonize
the voters.
Are they saying that they didn't want to
purpose spending legislation because they
knew that
President Bush would not sign it after all
the criticism he was receiving for the
runaway spending
of the previous Congress?
In my belief, here is what the Pelosi
Congress and Reid Senate did, they waited
for a friendly
signature to ink the pork and earmarks, and,
they got it in President Obama. Now that he
is
giving them what they want, he has to spin
it anyway he can. So Orszag is making the
talk show
circuit and blaming George W. Bush. If they
could find a way, they would probably blame
him
for the Stock Market Crash of 1929. "Last
year's business," wasn't Obama in the Senate
last
year? Why didn't he do last year's business
then? It appears last year's business is
fast becoming
this year's fiasco.
Let us examine some of what earmarks are
in this bill; earmarks that the President
promised
would never leave his office signed. "I will
go over every bill line by line and
eliminate any
earmarks and pork that comes across my
desk." Do those words sound familiar? He
only
repeated them over ten times during his
campaign. I imagine that if no one in
Congress read the
bill why should the president.
One of the provisions in the new bill
will eliminate school vouchers in the D.C.
area.
Disadvantaged families who are trying pull
themselves up by the bootstraps and give
their
children a better education now have to
re-enroll them in public schools that have
shown to be a
failure.
Is the money the government is saving on
school vouchers part of the $20 million to
study the
swamp mouse in California? Maybe it is part
of the $200,000 to remove tattoos from gang
members in Los Angeles? How about the
millions to study pig manure?
My question is simple, how many jobs are
being created by the "Porkalucious" bill?
I have a plan to help eliminate some of
the earmarks. For example there was $4.5
million to
renovate a habitat for two Polar Bears in
the Philadelphia Zoo. My suggestion is, put
them in a
refrigerator truck and ship them back to the
arctic. How many children who go to bed
hungry
every night can we feed with $4.5 million?
But, the President wants to push through
as much spending as he can. He wants the top
two-
percent of the wage earners to pay for it
all by increasing their taxes. We have all
heard of
"Trickle Down Economics." This will become
"Trickle Down Poverty." When the top wage
earners, who for the most part are small
business owners, are taxed out of existence,
who will
create the new jobs.
In comparing the Johnson administration
to the current administration, Dick Morris
stated it this
way, "President Lyndon Johnson's
administration was known for his War on
Poverty. President
Obama's will become notable for his War on
Prosperity."
Actually there may be one job that has
been created. There is a few million dollars
in the bill to
study and classify human foot odor. The
Obama administration may be looking for a
foot-
sniffer. Anyone interested?
And, that is my opinion.
Michael Solomon
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