Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Current draft of what I’m planning to send to my Senator and my other Senator.
Yup…hope it works…
Dear Senators,
“Boondoggle.”
This is the one word I hear used, more often than any other, to describe the stimulus plan. I hear that from people in your own party as well as from the Republicans.
When Congress acts unwisely, typically the bill has to become a law, and we have to wait a few months or years to see that this word applies. This situation is unique in that the B-word has not only surfaced, but become dominant, while the bill is simply being discussed.
That’s a warning. I don’t think you can ignore it without working hard at ignoring it.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear this boondoggle is nothing more than a laundry list of things lusted-after by your party, and its patrons, to soothe feelings of discontent and angst felt by those who’ve been out of power for just a few years. To pay back, at taxpayer expense, those who helped the 2008 elections shape up the way they did. It’s as if you’re anxious to demonstrate that the real split between yourselves and the Republicans isn’t about whether or not to run up an irresponsible debt, and spend taxpayer money on irresponsible things…it’s about whether such hijinks should be engaged by professionals or amateurs. And the Republicans are the amateurs. You’re about to show us how it’s really done.
I know that’s not the message you want to send, so this taxpayer hopes you both reject this “stimulus” boondoggle altogether. After all: Some of this “change” you’re supposed to deliver, is supposed to be a change from reckless spending and a skyrocketing debt. Can you be trusted to deliver on that? So I say, go to the people who are counting on you to pass this boondoggle, and tell them: We tried to sell it to the taxpayers. The taxpayers aren’t buying it. We’ll have to find some less offensive way to pay you back.
I know that smarts, but your continuing political survival isn’t possible any other way. Even in California.
Here’s what taxpayers like me find most distressing of all: A trillion dollars is about to be gambled on Keynesian economic theory. Yes, the name is not often used with regard to this issue, but that’s what it’s really all about. Speaking for myself, it would really do my heart good if members of Congress would debate this the way things used to be debated, with at least an attempt at honesty and transparency, perhaps putting some noted economists on camera to discuss the merits of Keynes’ ideas — as well as the arguments against them. As it is, it seems everyone in Washington capable of appearing in front of a camera or a microphone, accepts Keynesian theory as a foregone conclusion and proven fact. Well, it isn’t. It’s a dubious notion at best. Winston Churchill said it the best: “…for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
Let us keep the money we earned. Do that, and the economy will fix itself. You already know this; we know it; you need to be told that we know it.
Please vote no on the boondoggle.
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I hope it works.
- pdwalker | 02/06/2009 @ 11:59You nailed it: “Good luck on that.”
- Buck | 02/06/2009 @ 13:55I really don’t get terribly excited about writing to those two. I’d feel less a sense of futility applying defibrillator paddles to the ribcage of a two-year-old skeleton.
- mkfreeberg | 02/06/2009 @ 20:31