Obama’s Stimulus Plan May Not Work
Sunday, January 18th, 2009 by DFLIt looks like some journalists are finally catching on and admitting that Obama’s and the Democrats’ stimulus plan may not work.
Stimulus Plan May Not Work Article
My only response to this is: tell me something I didn’t already know.
Obama and the Democrats are using this recession as an opportunity to ram socialism down our throats, which has been their secret goal all along. Obama’s plan calls for, basically, the government to hire people to do make-work projects that don’t need to be done. Worst of all, after the government funding dries up, those jobs will disappear.
All Obama’s plan does is hire temp workers. When the projects are completed and the money is gone, those people will be fired. Then they will be out of work all over again. Unless, Obama’s stimulus plan isn’t temporary and ends up being permanent.
That’s what I think this is. The Democrats are not planning a one-time stimulus to create jobs because those jobs will all be temporary. They are using the recession as an excuse to convert our free market-based economy to one of centralized planning.
When the Democrats control the jobs, and they control health care, and they get everyone in the nation on the welfare rolls, they will have cemented themselves in power for as long as the United States lasts, however long that might be.
It’s about power. The DFL could cut taxes giving everyone a tax break to stimulate the economy, which it would. But that wouldn’t give them the control they seek over the daily lives of Americans.
One economist in the article says something that I have been saying all along:
“I think the economy will recover regardless of what Washington does. But the long-term effect here will be to reduce the standard of living of the next generation because they will be saddled with all this debt,” said Chris Edwards of the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
That is exactly right. What we are experiencing is called the business cycle. The economy grows and contracts a little every few years. This is normal and unpreventable. Left alone, the economy will right itself eventually. It always has before. Obama’s jobs plan is completely unnecessary. Odds are it will not work.
But we all know that the Democratic Party has a long track record of failure, don’t we?
