Prepare To Be Offended

All over the country people are protesting the stimulus bill. When was the last time you saw a republican-based protest?

“With that comes an unprecedented obligation to do so wisely, free from politics and personal agendas,” the president said. “On this I will not compromise or tolerate any shortcut.”

Free from politics and personal agendas? Really? Like that 8 billion Reid Railroad? or the 30 million mouse for Pelosi?

There is more though:

“If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money, I will not hesitate to call them out on it, and put a stop to it,” Obama said.

Now we’re talking!! Maybe that Millionaire Mouse won’t make it now!

FNC had it right:

The president did not specify how, exactly, he would call out one of his administration’s own agencies or a local government.

This is unbelievable. Obama is actually telling people to live within their means while he is stealing their money, their kids money and probably their grandkids money.

h/t GatewayPundit

This is truly scary and if it is true, could drastically change this country for a very long time. The following is a transcript from a Chicago democrat that was told what this stimulus package is really for. Read and weep.

“I really feel that what I’m gonna give you here is a smoking gun.

I’m a conservative Democrat and I’m from Chicago… and I, I feel that I was betrayed.

I was in a meeting after Obama got elected and I was told by the Democratic officials in that meeting that we were gonna give billions of dollars that was gonna come down the pike, our way, and what we were to do with it was we were supposed to do with it…

We are gonna build an army of Democratic patronage jobs…. gonna completely freeze up the Republicans forever and ever…

It’s a job-capturing system, the same one they have in Chicago… everyone’s asking ‘why isn’t that money being released until 2011 and 2012?’

Because it needs to be released at a time that’s close to the election, so that they don’t go blow the money and spend it. So they’re gonna hold some back and that’s where… the real bucks will be spent, right up close to the election.

…It’s not a stimulus package, it’s not pork! It’s a job patronage system… there’s gonna be more [people] working for the Democrats in a patronage system than the United States Army…

And the jobs are gonna be camouflaged in a million different ways, whether you’re workin’ for the city, or workin’ for the state, but when the election comes around, you’re gonna be obligated to go out and get that vote… …like ACORN, except the jobs will be larger scale. I just wanted to say that, because I was really depressed when they told me, because I really thought they’d be different.

If I’ve done nothing else in my life, I’ve informed what that bill really is… it’s a job patronage system.”

here is the originating video:

h/t DirectoryBlue

HotAir.com has a post about the impending collapse of the Venezuela government due in large part to Hugo Chavez’s spending on social programs and not paying the contractors that keep his one vital money maker flowing. oil.

What does this have to do with the U.S.? Simple. The U.S. is borrowing heavily from China to fund our social programs and at any time they could simply stop, or keep going to the point where we can’t afford to borrow anymore and worse, not pay anything back. What will happen then?

Here is my favorite part:

Chavez faces another key vote this year. If he stops spending money on his pet projects, he’ll lose the support of the poor, practically his only constituency now. If he doesn’t pay the contractors, though, his entire economy could collapse, creating a huge backlash against the man who claimed nationalization would cure all Venezuela’s ills. Chavez may soon reach the end of his rope, and as Benito Mussolini discovered when his dictatorship resulted in disaster, that’s not necessarily a figurative phrase.

Many in this country also think socialism is the way to go. Newsweek even claims we are already there, that we are just like France.

Will we fore go our failed social programs to save the country? Is that what it will take for people of this country to finally wake up and see what a mess government controlled social programs are and how they are slowing killing us? I’m not generally a pessimist, but I have no faith in the American public. This past election has proven how the ignorant and lazy can elect people into office whose only goal is power and corruption.

The house republicans took a stand today and note one voted for the democrat stimulus plan. This despite Obama meeting with GOP leaders the other day. About time they took a stand.

Here is the vote count:

So now Obama has said that he is going to ban all earmarks from the recovery package he is putting together. He was pressed about it and said it repeatedly:

Question: … Earmarks, you said there will be none that get in there without review. Some people would argue even the so-called bridge to nowhere got review, some level of review …

Obama: No, no, no. What I’m saying is – let me repeat what I said about that … We will ban all earmarks in the recovery package. And I describe earmarks as the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review. So what I’m saying is, we’re not having earmarks in the recovery package, period. I was describing what earmarks are.

Question: So there’s – you’re not suggesting there’s some level of review that might …

Obama: I’m saying there are no earmarks in the recovery package. That, that is the position that I’m taking.

You could split hairs like Ed Morrissey does about whether without review means there will be any earmarks or not. That isn’t the point. All congress will do is take what they were going to put in as earmarks and make it part of the official legislation. With no republicans to hold them back why not?

Besides that, the whole thing is practically an earmark. For the unions anyway. 300+ billion payback for the 300+ million they contributed to campaigns.

If this package weren’t going to hurt so much, it would almost be funny.