You Want Solutions? Here You Go.
The little bit below is something I wrote in response to a comment on the Rep. Boehner stimulus video. Neal Boortz seems to be on the same page today. I added a fascinating fact from his column along with a link. It's followed by my little ramble.

"When Obama started talking about the $750 billion dollar stimulus price tag I did some quick calculations. It seems that $750 billion is almost exactly equal to the amount of federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes withheld from American paychecks over a six-month period." Neal Boortz

Back to me:
President Obama promised that his stimulus would create jobs immediately. Shovel-ready blah blah blah. If he had the intelligence credited to him, he would know that more immediate efforts like, God forbid, cuts in corporate and personal taxes, have a more immediate stimulative effect. People are hurting NOW. Jobs that will come in 2012 won't help.

For Mr. Obama it's not about us. It's about increasing political power. It's about using the "crisis" to put into place policies that cannot be easily reversed or overturned.

Mr. Boehner and others offered ideas but the Chairman and Queen Pelosi said it was just "the same failed policies of the past 8 years."

THAT kind of lame rhetoric is not appropriate for someone who promises to "change the way Washington works."

The Chairman spends more time going on and on about George W. Bush, lying and distorting the truth and history, just to cram through his policies. Even people like Warren Buffett, whom Mr. Obama said he would listen to, are opposed to Cap and Trade, Employee NO CHOICE, etc.

In the end, the notion that you can build an economy from the bottom up doesn't work. As tough as it might sound, poor people don't create jobs. You cannot take from those who produce and "give" to others. Allowing people to keep the money they earn isn't "giving."

Companies and entrepreneurs are terrified of what's coming next. Why reinvest in your company when you don't know how much of your wealth will be seized? So many people are just holding on for another 2 years in hopes that Congress will change hands.

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of faith that it will because the public is more concerned with and aware of Michael Jackson than what's going on with their government.