Re: OT stimulus ^$#*%$#^%

On Feb 17, 12:55 pm, "Dano" <janeandd...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thereco wrote:
On Feb 17, 7:40 am, "Dano" <janeandd...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thereco wrote:
On Feb 16, 8:48 pm, McDuck <wallyDELETEMEMcD...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:26:57 -0800 (PST), thereco

<there...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have just watched Hannity & Colmes on Fox. The interviewees were
Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco, A congresswoman from
California and Jim Kelly, the former Buffalo Bills quarteback.
The discussion was about the stimulus package and some of the
things it was spent on. Yes, $30,000,000.00 goes to save the
wetlands mice in New York City. Willie Brown was a staunch
defender, naturally. Can't have the NY mice being destroyed and
therefore giving the pride of 1st place to the City by the Bay.
Imagine the uproar when the rats hear about this. They'll surely
lobby for their own piece of the pie. After all the Norway brown
rat outnumbers the citizens of NYC by about 20 to
1. Come to think of it as citizens of Norway they probably have
passports and their own representative to the UN. And what about
the cockroaches? Those heralded residents of the tenements and
restaurants should not be overlooked. Don't they supply us with
countless jokes and fodder for the gristmills of Jay Leno and
David Letterman? They should be taken care of as well as the mice
of the Hudson and East rivers.

Oh yes, we are also giving $25 billion to build a hi speed railway
from LA to Vegas. 45 minutes on the plane or 2 hours by rail is
not fast enough to drain the money from Californians into the
coffers of Nevada now we have to insure that the casinos are not
waiting for the suckers to arrive later but sooner so that the
non state income tax payers of Nevada get to bed an hour sooner.
What were we thinking and why did it take us so long to hear the
plight of our neighbors and respond with the remainder of our
cash? Our kids ate last week didn't they?

Yes, this is tongue in cheek but the ridiculousness of these and
even more frivolous and unnecessary flights of fancy and pork
barrel incursions are enough to make you barf.

I have to go now as I just thought of a wonderful money making
idea. There are over 1 million species of insects in the world.
I'm thinking of forming an association for each one of bleeding
hearts and charging $1.00 membership fees to join.Okay the line
forms to the right.

Don - soon to be the Bill Gates of the insect world.

I assume you watch those clowns on Faux News b/c you want to be
upset. Turn on MSNBC and you feel a lot better about the American
Recovery Act <g>.- Hide quoted text -

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Mac,

I do watch MSNBC, CNN and a few others to get both sides. I also am
able to listen and investigate in order to form my own opinion. If
anyone thinks that this pork barrel raid on our bankrupt economy is
a panacea then I despair for the future of this country.

Don

Where've you been for the last eight years? I didn't hear your
concern during the wildest free spending in our nation's
history....while pouring money into Iraq. Bush drove the national
debt higher than any president since your hero Reagan. That debt
today tops 10 TRILLION dollars! When Clinton left office it was
around 6 trillion. Do you know why that is?
It's because you Republicans spend even more than Democrats...you
just print money to pay for it. You are so loathe to tax that you
pass that debt on to the next guys...and our grandchildren.
Then...when the inevitable pendulum swing happens...blame those
damned Democrats for paying the bill.

Much of the hundreds of billions spent in Iraq was to rebuild the
infrastructure we tore down in the process of removing Saddam and
bringing "freedom" to Iraqis...all while limiting our own as
Americans...and refusing to take care of our OWN infratructure back
home. And of course...all while not asking us to pay for it. He
waged the most expensive wars in history without asking the American
people to pay for it...through taxes. It's time to take care of our
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Dano,

Actually I think Bush was just a cut above the gerbil who used to
manage the Sox in '78. I have been around this newsgroup for 13 years
so I guess you missed a few postings somewhere along the line. If I
had my way we would wholesalely clean house of Dems and Repubs and
start from scratch. You may be an honest man to start but by playing
the "good old boys" game you become tainted and inexorably have to
climb in bed with the crooks and dolts to accomplish anything at all.

BTW, Reagan was not my hero. I only have one and I'm married to her.

That's all great Don...but we have to deal with the cards we've been dealt.
What is YOUR proposal?  Nuke DC?  I guess you think the only thing we can do
according to THAT outlook is to head for hills and become survivalists.  Or
move to another country.  I know you're of the same generation as my uncle,
who's the closest I have to a dad for a long time.  He's 82 and a die hard
Libertarian.  He thinks everything from drugs to prostitution to
gambling...even abortion should be legalized.  And he's an active Catholic
too!  Go figure.  He rails against the government...both parties...but has
zero effect on anything.  If anything is to change...it must be incremental.
We're faced with a very serious crisis right now.  I really don't think this
is the time to even think about cutting governmental spending.  I certainly
don't agree with every line item, but politics and government is all about
compromise.  Unless you want a one party system and a totalitarian form of
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Dano,

I'm 4 years older than your uncle.

This thread was stipulated in the beginning as tongue in cheek but
obviously fools such as O'Hara are seriously lacking in reading
comprehension. Nowhere have I stipulated that there should be no
government spending. I know absolutely that
it is necessary for the economic recovery of the country. My disgust
is with the pork barrel greed of the members of congress such as Reid
and the bailing out and outright rewarding of corporations and their
execs for their failures and complete disregard for the common good.
By all means spend the money but for God's sake put the money in the
hands of the people who need it the most, the public. Not some company
like AIG who gives their execs $7,500,000.00 retention bonuses as
rewards for bankrupting then economy. Create jobs that fix problems
the country needs desperately and build a tax base that way,

As for doing my bit I can assure you that I do and more probably than
anyone in this newsgroup can imagine. I, and my partner, employ over
200 people and even in the worst of economic downturns we have never
laid off a single individual because of cash flow problems. We have on
one occasion had to institute a 4 day work week to keep from doing so
but that was a temporary measure to maintain all our employees. There
are people in this newsgroup who know me and have been to my plant and
as guests in my home and as my guests at Red Sox games. Today I
finalized a merger with one of the largest companies of it's kind in
the world and some of my products, which some of the members have
received from me as gifts, will be seen on TV in another 2 or 3 months
from 500 to 1,000 times a week. Yes, Dano, I do my part and more and
so do the members of my family. One of my daughters, in 1992, received
an award as the outstanding community activist in the country. Another
one raised over $100,000,000.00 to help restore her neighborhood. She
got an $86,000,000.00 grant from Sol Price of the Price Clubs for this
project. The list goes on but you get the idea. So please don't accuse
me of simply ranting and doing nothing. I save that garbage for the
O'haras of the world.

Cheers,

Don
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