Pork-Stuffed Stimulus and the Liberal Media
The stock market has been in an absolute freefall since the Obama/Pelosi/Reid team rolled out their unstimulating, pork-stuffed stimulus bill.
Because the liberal media, Sunpaper included, decided to mitigate or ignore the multitude of serious flaws in the legislation, the “real” details of the bill have been disseminated via talk-radio, the internet, and blogs, and with each passing day the revelations seem to be worse. This is the worst possible scenario, that a bad bill would be spoon fed to the populace one seedy tidbit at a time.
I would be the first to admit that, based on what I’m hearing, there is even a fair amount of misinformation being spread around the airwaves.
Too bad. This had a chance to be a good bill. Obviously, some form of stimulus is needed.
The Sunpaper and other media outlets could have well reported on, and put a stop to, the fraud and deceit that was being pumped into the bill as stimulus. Billions of dollars for groups like ACORN? Billions for mortgage holders who were either uninformed, misinformed, or for whatever other reason failed to realize that they purchased a house that they couldn’t afford, and will in all probability lose in the future despite the stimulus package? Billions to position SCHIP as a program for middle-income children, many of whom already had private insurance? Billions more for welfare, and a defacto end to the welfare reform that has been so successful in reducing welfare rolls since the 1990’s?
This was supposed to be a bill to stimulate the economy. This was not supposed to be a bill designed to funnel money to every miscreant, illegal immigrant, loser, union boss and third generation welfare mom in the nation.
Is it any doubt why the stock market’s in a free fall? The middle class has again been ignored. America – you have gotten exactly the government you asked for, dished out to you by the same miscreants you refused to hold accountable for their previous aggressions against the financial security of the American people.
