Posted by
ConservaTease on Monday, February 09, 2009 11:30:00 PM
Recently, Conservatives have been asking the question, "What is Obama's end game?" Where exactly is the Boy-Who-Would-Be-King going with this stimulus?
Obama says that the stimulus is desperately needed...that we may not survive without it. He says that our economy would collapse if Congress doesn't push the bill through.
Yet, as free-market capitalists, we all know that our economy will collapse under the weight of the $800+ billion government plan. There is no way that America's economy can thrive with this pork-infested yolk around our necks. We are the ones who have to pick up the tab.
So what does Barack Obama plan to do when the economy tanks even further? When private-sector jobs aren't created and when banks and private businesses continue to go under? What happens when this stimulus bill doesn't work?
Ah, well, there's the rub. Conservatives are missing the point entirely if they analyze the situation from the premise that this bill won't work...because it will work. It's designed to work exactly the way Barack Obama wants it to.
The stimulus bill will work to stimulate our ever-growing reliance on socialism. It will work by further promoting the necessity of the American people to be given our economic portion from the government. No matter the size of our portion or the appetite of our motivation, socialism works for the benefit of the government and not for the satisfaction of the people.
And when we dare to ask for more from our government? Our fate will mirror that of the starved and orphaned Oliver Twist when he was still hungry after his first bowl of gruel and said, "Please, sir, I want some more." Be prepared for a fat, well-dressed bureaucrat who looks like Joe Biden and talks like Ted Kennedy to bash you in the head and pronounce that you will "be hung".
Make no mistake, each bank that is taken over, each industry that suckles itself on the government, each CEO who trades his honor to sit at the feet of the Democrats, are part of Obama's plan for change. Each jobs report that announces more layoffs are received with pleasure by Obama and his band of merry men. As Rahm Emanuel so openly admitted, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
How else could Nancy Pelosi defend the idea that government subsidies of contraceptives will stimulate the economy? How else could Obama justify funneling billions of dollars to ACORN, in the hopes of stealing more elections? How else could Obama justify spending hundreds of millions to help cable-watchers convert their ancient TVs to digital? So that you rely on the government for your health care needs and your ability to watch TV.
Even the President's tax provisions in the stimulus bill are aimed at forcing you to rely on the government. Stimulus checks are a bad idea because they divorce the American worker from his or her money unnecessarily. You pay your taxes in April, and in May, the government turns around and hands you some of the money back. Why not let us keep the money through a tax rate cut and save everyone the trouble? Two reasons. First, Obama wants to decide which non-tax-payer will get the taxes you paid. And second, Obama wants you to thank the government for getting your own money back. That way, there isn't any misunderstanding about who runs things in this country.
Government decides where your money should go and how it should be spent. Government decides which portion you should keep, and whether you are entitled to a second helping. As Ronald Reagan once said, "What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?...[The Founding Fathers] knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people."
Socialists like Barack Obama and his Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel recognize the opportunity to take control of many things in our lives. Uncle Sam's become quite a fan of Karl Marx, hasn't he?