Obama, health care, oil spills, overspending, debt, tax hikes, Zsa Zsa all of these topics are pervasive themes in news today and for me all of them are quite frightening. Which is why I have created The Bloated Donkey in an attempt to tackle the ever growing list of Democrat wrong doings, a sort of Donkey watch if you will. In my articles I offer a conservative viewpoint. I know what some of you are thinking, I am probably a “close-minded” rich white elderly male that is probably from a typically red state such as Utah or Texas because I am conservative right? Wrong, I am middle class, part Native American (and yes the term Indian offends me) part Dutch, and I am a woman from the typically blue state of California. With introductions out of the way I will begin by introducing the pilot topic of The Bloated Donkey: Overspending and the Obama Administrations new proposed stimulus package.
The Democratic spending is out of control, they have acquired an insatiable appetite for taxpayer’s dollars. To the Democrats more is never enough, taxes can never be too high, and there are always more programs to fund and more spending to be done. The Democrat Party is bloated by over-indulging themselves on taxpayer dollars. The Obama Administration came out this week proposing a $50 billion Infrastructure plan that is supposed to create jobs. In my opinion this is just another stimulus plan that adds to the deficit and throws money at the problem instead of trying to fix it. This infrastructure plan mirrors the last stimulus plan proposed Obama Administration. That particular plan took $240 billion of taxpayer’s money to stop unemployment from rising. According to Obama implementation of the previous stimulus plan would stop unemployment from rising. He went as far as to say that unemployment wouldn’t rise above 8 percent. However, that program failed miserably and unemployment is now at 9.6 percent with 14.9 million people unemployed. Democrats refuse to call this new plan a stimulus package, they call it a $50 billion dollar infrastructure plan as if changing the name is going to make it unlike every other failed stimulus package. Democrats justify this over-spending as necessary to resuscitate the economy and again stop unemployment from rising. This leaves the American public with the begging question, how is this program different than all of the other failed stimulus packages? The answer: it’s not. This is just another example of Democrats gorging themselves on taxpayer’s money convinced that increasing debt and throwing our money at problems will somehow magically solve them. How many billions of taxpayers’ dollars must be sacrificed to make the Democrats understand that more spending and more programs are not the answer to fixing the economy and reversing the National Debt. According to the U.S. National Debt clock as of September 06, 2010 the public debt of the United States is $13,458,822,654,744.05 and growing. This debt is rapidly increasing at a rate of $4.14 billion every day. With the United States population at approximately 309,065,826 meaning that our individual share of the Public Debt is approximately $43,546.78. Now you may ask what could we possibly be spending that much of our money on and why has the public debt increased at such an alarming rate. The answer: Besides countless failing stimulus packages that waste billions, the Democrats are overspending and creating too many new programs which require government funding (leading to an increase in taxes), essentially government waste of taxpayer dollars. Government expenditures include: $715 billion which will pay for defense and security-related international activities; $708 billion which will pay for Social Security; Medicare, Medicaid consists of $753 billion of the budget. Safety Net Programs are about $482 billion; Interest on National Debt is $209 billion of the budget. Those are just a few of the programs that consume taxpayer’s money. The spending doesn’t stop there next year there are proposals for at least 729 additional new programs that “require” government funding. Can we honestly afford any more programs and any additional squandering of taxpayer dollars? The bloated Democrat theory of spending our way out of a recession to justify their craving to acquire and spend people’s money is a twisted socialist solution that only creates higher taxes, and a higher deficit in the end.
I suggest that the Obama Administration cut down on spending and reduce taxes, and stop coming up with stimulus packages that cost taxpayers billions when they clearly don’t work; just give up on the stimulus packages they didn’t work before they aren’t going to work now. They need to save money by cutting down on frivolous programs, and instead focus on reducing the public debt. Simply put: no more programs, no more stimulus programs, reduce existing programs, limit spending, increase oversight on funding, give tax cuts, and stop outsourcing. So before the Democrats start their socialist programs such as universal health care they need to pause and have one ounce of compassion for the taxpayers funding all of their programs. And might I add, if this health care remains in effect, every politician including the president should be on the government plan not their own private plans.
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