Beligerence Be Thy Name!

Unless you live under a rock, most of you are well aware of the Stimulus bill. This so-called "stimulus" was hastily passed through Congress like crap through a goose this Friday. And so, President Obama signed the bill today, the rubber stamp of the liberal juggernaut that dominates our national congress.

House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was in a huge rush to pass the bill through before the weekend would start. A big jet liner headed for Rome was waiting for her to board, so really, there was no time to review it and discuss it (if it is any consolation, the Pope slammed her for her pro-choice stance...some devout Catholic). If this bill is not passed, according the to President, our economy will suffer a blow that it would never recover from. It was imperative that the bill be passed immediately and without delay. First of all, this is fear mongering. Obama's message to the American public was nothing more than a slippery slope. The fallacy being that if the bill isn't passed, than the US economy is going to go down the toilet. How many of you, rationally speaking, really think that without this bill all hell would break loose. Is this bill the be-all-end-all? It is unreasonable to lead the public to believe that this bill alone will solve the nation's problems.

Which leads me to my second point. Pushing the bill through in order to "save" the economy was a flat-out facade. It was passed through rapidly in order to save it from extreme scrutiny and opposition. Effectively, what they did was avoid any sort of discussion from the other end of the isle, public uproar and millions of phone calls, emails and nasty letters flooding their congressional offices. If given any time at all, the bill would have had to undergo massive edits and even the possibility of getting canned for a newly revised bill.

So what does this say about the bill itself? To tell you the truth, I'm sure very few in Washington have actually slogged through the 1,000 plus pages of legislation. The content itself must be questionable, possibly a reason why they did not want the public to be knowledgeable; it leads one to wonder how much actual stimulus has been included in the bill. I guess we can forget about Obama's promise to have bills posted 5 days on the White House webpage before he will do any signing. So much for transparency within the government. I hope this does not become an ongoing trait with this administration. That goes double for the use of fear mongering with the public. Americans deserve better than this; a government of the people, by the people and for the people...not a deceptive government for its own self-interest.

By the way, if you actually have the time, heres link of the bill put into 5 pdf files:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.