(As I was putting my column up, my $&#%^@ computer erased the whole thing, so I’ll rewrite it briefly. I hate computers!)
The Bush stimulus of $700 billion outraged everyone, and millions of e-mails, phone calls and letters failed to stop it. McCain rushed home to vote for it, interrupting his campaign. That vote may cost him his seat as well as others who voted for TARP, the Bush stimulus. Obama and his Democrats have added on to the Bush stimulus with $420 million, $275 million, and $785 billion, and the national debt, through March 1st, has added $5.8 trillion, none of which has helped anyone.
After the last Obama stimulus was added, a new and greater stimulus happened, as if by magic. Whenever people get enough, they revolt. The Colonists revolted when King George’s heavily taxed tea was thrown overboard in Boston Harbor. When the revolt began in the 1700’s, there were lots of loyalists who wanted to remain true to mother England. Fortunately, the rebels won, and we are a United States of America now. The new stimulus costs the taxpayers nothing, and adds not a cent to the national debt. The new stimulus is the natural result of the Bush-Obama stimulus deals which have cost at least $5.8 trillion. People began to wonder if our nation was being confiscated by big government. Government now owns car companies, insurance companies, banks, and seems to control everything from health on to the rest of our lives. The new stimulus is the Tea Party Movement, which has no national headquarters as of yet, but is composed of outraged citizens who have joined loosely together, and in loud voices, protested what has happened and vowed to stop it.
Millions of Republicans have left the party and re-registered independent. Know why? Because of Bush, Greenspan, and TARP. Will the Tea Party bring them back? Can they remove RINOS (Republicans in name only)? Time will tell. In order to survive, Not only Greece, Spain, and Portugal have to stop reckless spending, but we will have to also. So will Japan and England, because most of the world’s governments have overspent, and are in literal bankrupt states. Not a single currency anywhere, is backed by anything, and all are mere printing press outputs, just as is Monopoly Money. Trillions will have to be cut around the world, or the entire paper money fraud will collapse. Is Germany now printing and going to get out of euros? That’s the rumor. Greece has riots, and if cuts are made around the world, there will be riots everywhere. The underclass exists on freebies, and if they’re cut, there will be riots. The underclass has a trademark of riots and burning, because they have few brains and live for instant gratification, such as riots and arson. The underclass came into being because of reckless spending, freebies and handouts.
P.S. We have reworked the web site so that when either myself, David of Melissa is open, our names and phone numbers appear at the top of the web site. When we are closed in our individual time slots, out names disappear. Saves a lot of confusion. Nice correction this morning!