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So what exactly does this Stimulus Package,,,,Stimulate?

February 18, 2009 |  Tagged | Leave a Comment

I’m sure everyone is sick of hearing about this issue by now, but I stil feel the need to throw in m $0.02 in.

This week the House is expected to pass an $825 billion economic stimulus package… As before, a sense of urgency and impending doom is being used to extract mountains of money from Congress with minimal debate. So much for change. This is déjà vu. We are again being promised that its passage will help employment, help homeowners, help the environment, etc. These promises are worthless. This time around especially, Congress should know better than to pass anything of this magnitude without first reading the fine print…

There is a lot of stimulus and growth in this bill – that is, of government.
–Ron Paul

This quote expresses my feelings on this stimulus package pretty concisely. I simply do not trust the government to further debase our currency by printing more money out of thin air. More than just that, this money will not be used to help you, me, the old lady down the street or the woman working three jobs to feed her kids because she has no health insurance benefits and cant pay for her childrens medication.

No this money that is being taken from all of us is going to be used to expand government on a nightmarish scale.

Like I said I’m sure everyone is sick of hearing about it so I’ll stop.


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