Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Most who know this quote think of it only in terms of national security and wartime. However, it applies to all aspects of life. The more we look to the government as the cure for all ills, the economy, healthcare, and so on, the less liberty we have to make our own decisions.

I’m the wife of a blue collar worker. This past year, my husband has 5-W2s to file on our tax return. This “stimulus” bill is not the answer. Nothing in that bill is going to do anything but spend money. In the short term, it will look like something is happening but in the long run, money will be spent that 5 years from now, we’ll be hard pressed to say what good it did because it’s all cosmetic.

To put the cosmetic description in understandable terms, think about Pelos and her regularly scheduled botox treatments. Without them, how would she look 5 years from now?

Here’s the other thing they have in common:

Ugh!

You nailed it Francis.

This is an excellent diary that concretely illustrate how Obama lied in the election, not once, not twice, not thrice…… but so many in so many instances.

Instead of Hope and Change, he’s now harassing us with his Fear of Economic Depression. Ha….. the One is not really the One…. he’s the fitting example that serpent in the Garden of Eden…. a LIAR. Obama’s current economic policies could be the main reason of such catastrophe.

A compassionate President? Heck. That’s another biggest sham of the last election. This Liberal/Socialist President is skillfully using his “Community Organizing” skills that he once practiced in Chicago. Those skills can easily be summed up to COERCION.

Obama is destined to be the most corrupt president ever lived in the WH.

in the movie “How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying”. The main character, Mr. Finch, fools everyone and the big boss that he is the best man for the highest level position. When told to come up with a great plan to make money, all he can come up with is stealing someone else’s idea, mainly the big boss’ nephew, of having a stupid treasure hunt. The guy is a fool, has managed to fool everyone with his pretense, and steals ideas to use as his own. Sound familiar? Treasure Hunt, indeed! Just like the Stimulus Plan, ie, the spending package.

It’s the tried and true standard of “progressives” since the beginning of the movement to attain the workers socialist paradise. Thinking people who take the time to consider just some of the foreseeable consequences of the path they want to take will quickly turn aside. That way lies tyranny and death, as is proven by Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin. They all came to power promising to free their people with the hope for a changed tomorrow. All have been consigned to the ash heap of history, but not before millions suffered for their hubris.

Hate to say it but the same thing was done to push the original TARP plan, which our tax evading “friend” Geithner created and sold to Paulson and Bernake.

We were all told, and continue to be told that if not for TARP the world would end.

At this point this all seems just par for the course. We should have killed TARP when we had the chance and avoided this whole mess….now we are stuck with this because of the idiotic notion that we “had to do something”.

We let TARP slide and we shouldn’t have. McCain, Bush, Paulson, and Bernake paved the way for the future excesses that we are starting to see now under the Obama administration.

This just pisses me off to no end. Especially since my 11 month old daughter will most likely spend the first 4 years of her life living in a depression.

“HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!
Thanks for another thought-provoking contribution Mr. Cianfrocca.

We have a huge problem.
There simply isn’t time to explain the plan, or even entertain discussions of alternative ideas.
If the plan is not passed in 48 hours, we face certain doom.

Did anyone on the right expect Obama, Frank, Pelosi, et al not to notice?
Did anyone expect the libs to waste a good crisis?

Many of my issues with respect to TARP were procedural in terms of how it was explained (it wasn’t), how alternative ideas were addressed (people like New and Forbes had some interesting ideas, but they were fully ignored), etc.

Whether you substantive agreed with the TARP or not, its hard to argue that the quality of the public debate on the issue was anything but a big stinking F

The door was opened by Bush reluctantly in good faith. The door is now unhinged.

LOL!

Who killed all those jobs in the midwest, anyway?

Think the greenies had anything to do with it?

“In the case of Treasury Secretary Geithner, I am going to have a rubber stamp made that says “Tax Cheat!” in block letters. Every time I see a piece of paper currency with Geithner’s signature on it, I am going to stamp over his name with my Tax Cheat stamp. Sure, this action is just as futile as my vote, but eventually maybe others will reach the same conclusion that I have: it is far past time to make our voices heard.”

If Obama just would stuff all the doom and gloom and give people some confidence that would do more good than all this spending.

He is such a tool.

What happened to “We only need to fear fear itself?” Obama forgot that part and only comprehends the big spender part.

We need some hope, not naive fluff, but some hope mixed in with the reality of our times. The President can do great help with consumer confidence or can do great harm.

We need a real leader. America needs some hope. Obama playing partisan CYA politics is disgusting. Obama is no longer in the cushy Senate playing political games, he is our freakin leader!

Grow a pair, Mr President.