Republicans Try to Stimulate Economy

As Nancy Pelosi’s trillion dollar grab bag of socialist spending hits a bumpy road in the Senate, Obama hits the panic button in a highly partisan attempt to rally Democrat law makers away on holiday at a swank little Williamsburg, VA spa.

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All that campaign talk about a new era of personal responsibility and bipartisan cooperation went right out the window the second congressional Republicans refused to lay down and take one for the team. Apparently, bipartisan now means roll over and play dead... If Obama were truly interested in a bipartisan effort to do what’s best for the nation, he would have drafted the economic stimulus package himself instead of letting House Democrats pass an obvious wish list of Marxist ideals that they have lusted after for years. Obama is in a full state of panic. Not because the sky is falling, as all the Democrat Chicken Littles would have us believe. But because Obama’s approval rating is falling and so is public support for Pelosi’s one way ticket to unbridled socialism, which even the lamest Obama supporter is beginning to figure out, won’t stimulate anything but government growth.

Creating Jobs

If you really want to create jobs, start by asking people who have spent a lifetime creating jobs, namely employers, how to do it. Obama says he “rejects Republican theories” on how to stimulate economic growth. If that’s so, then he is also rejecting the advice of employers across the country, in favor of Marxist theories from career politicians who have never met a payroll, turned a profit or created a single job in their entire pathetic lives.

Only the American People can Stimulate the Economy

Obama says that “spending” stimulates economic growth. But he leaves out a very vital fact. PRIVATE sector spending stimulates economic growth. Government spending is what bankrupted the nation and almost every state in the union. More government spending is the worst possible move at this hour... Only the people can stimulate the economy. At best, all the government can do is get out of the way, which Democrats seem hell bent on not doing at present. Government can only create government jobs at additional taxpayer expense. If we replace 3 million private sector jobs with 3 million government funded jobs, we just made the problem 6 million jobs worse... 3 million productive jobs lost, 3 million taxpayer funded jobs added... At what point will government have to trim its overhead and tighten its belt?

Lower Taxes

Even Democrats know the truth about lowering taxes. They just can’t afford to tell you the truth because if they did, they would be Republicans. Every time tax rates are lowered, tax revenue increases. That’s a simple fact easy enough for anyone to verify. It’s because lowering taxes leaves money in the private sector where it will get spent or invested, thereby stimulating economic growth and broadening the tax base via growth in GDP. This is not a secret, nor is it in any way disputed. Corporate taxation is double taxation. The same taxable dollar of profit at the corporate level is taxed again at the employee payroll or shareholder dividend level. There is no such thing as “corporate tax.” Every penny in corporate tax is passed onto employees in lower wages, shareholders in smaller dividends and consumers in higher prices. Every penny... Want full employment and huge economic expansion? Forget lowering corporate taxes, eliminate them! They are all passed on to employees, investors and consumers anyway. But the problem for Democrats is this... According to the IRS, the bottom 50% of income earners in America (read Democrat voters) only pay 2.99% of all federal taxes collected. The top 50%, mostly Republican voters, pay 97.01% of all federal taxes collected. How do you give tax breaks to people who don’t pay taxes? Of course rich people get all the tax breaks. They pay all the taxes... just ask the IRS.

Hence, the Entitlement Stimulus Theory

Democrats must find a way to buy continued loyalty from the proletariat class they have spent decades developing. They must buy those votes with gifts from the treasury or they won’t get those votes. According to Democrats, if we take from the top 50% who pay taxes and give to the bottom 50% who don’t - that will stimulate economic growth. But all it really stimulates is government growth. The federal government was never to be in the unfriendly position of deciding individual worth. How much is too much for one, or not enough for another. This is the fundamental theory of Marxism, socialism, both of which are but a stepping stone to communism. People indeed deserve equal opportunity. But people are by no means of equal economic worth. Some people are ten times as productive as the next guy. Others are lazy and nothing but a drain on society. These two people are not of equal economic worth because they are not of equal economic value. Some union laborers are worth the $30.00 an hour they get, plus benefits. Others are not worth 10% of that figure. Likewise, a few corporate CEOs are worth their weight in gold because they can employ thousands of people and provide the profits that investors hope to retire on some day. Others are not worth the paper their contract was written on...

A Nation of Individuals, not Socio-Economic Classes

This is why freedom is the only truly fair system on earth. Every individual has equal power to determine their own worth and station in life. We are a nation of individuals, not carefully carved up socio-economic voting blocs to be pandered to. I am 100% for “equal opportunity.” No matter race, gender, creed or color, every American should have an equal unobstructed opportunity of self-determination. That’s what freedom is and no one should be afforded more or less freedom than another... But we aren’t talking about freedom today. We are talking about free-stuff! And free-stuff comes at the expense of freedom. It enslaves the half of society that must pick up the tab, but also the half who will never reach their full potential because they have been bought and paid for with mere scraps from the public trough. Free-stuff empowers only those in control of deciding who gets and who must give. It empowers government, not people. Today’s debate over the so-called stimulus package is nothing more than another battle in the ongoing war between those who demand freedom and those who demand only free-stuff. It’s the promise of free-stuff that has brought the most productive and prosperous nation on earth to the brink of national bankruptcy. Democrats know it, they did it... But they can’t afford to admit it or their political power will evaporate into thin air. It’s up to the American people to know what is true and act accordingly....