Stimulus

How Stimulating…

I received another email which caused me to do some thinking. So I thought I would write down my thoughts and share them with you.

Subject: Economic Stimulus Explained

"Sometime this year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment. This is a very
exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and A format:

"Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
"A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers."

"Q. Where will the government get this money?
"A. From taxpayers."

"Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?"
"A. No, they are borrowing it from China. Your children are expected to repay the Chinese."

"Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
"A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy."

"Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China?"
"A. Shut up ."

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:

If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.

If you spend it on gasoline it will go to Hugo Chavez, the Arabs and Al Qaida

If you purchase a computer it will go to Taiwan.

If you purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala (unless you buy organic).

If you buy a car it will go to Japan and Korea.

If you purchase prescription drugs it will go to India.

If you purchase heroin it will go to the Taliban in Afghanistan

If you give it to a charitable cause, it will go to Nigeria.

You can keep the money in America by spending it at yard sales or going to a ball game, or you can spend it on women of ill repute, domestic beer or tattoos, since those are the only businesses still in the US.



Funny—a little late and chock full of inaccuracies—but still funny. This email is regarding Bush's stimulus package, not Obama’s. Obama's stimulus is going to be given to the states so they can create busy work such as digging holes and filling them up again; pretty much as FDR did during the Great Depression.

Bush's stimulus check from the summer was held against me when I filed my taxes recently and I am being reimbursed a pittance of what I paid into “the system.” Basically, Bush took the taxes from me and wasted the money on things such as killing innocent people with fancy weapons and spying on me with fancy spy gear. He then borrowed money from China to give a small amount of my taxes back to me with the expectation that I would blow it on stupid stuff I don't need. Now I am being penalized for the refund by being placed in a higher tax bracket. The government is such a racket! But, let’s not forget, not only did Bush loan us back our own tax money with penalties, he gave lots of our money to a bunch of other people who had wasted their own money and found themselves broke: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4AO9TR20081125?sp=true


On the other hand, early information on Obama's stimulus package showed it to be so full of pork it smelled like bacon:


· $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
· $850 million for "wildlife" programs.
· $600 million for new cars for federal bureaucrats.
· $34 million for the "refurbishing" of the Department of Commerce
· $200 million for electric car technology.
· $1 billion for "community development" block grants.
· $10 million to "refurbish low-income housing".
· $4.19 billion to hand out to people for their mortgages.
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Your congress finally passed the stimulus bill on Friday, but only after several changes. I do not know what changes were made and I cannot find any information on the internet about it. I went to www.congress.org and this is all it had to say about the bill:


Summary:
1/6/2009--Introduced. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Calls for the enactment of legislation to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that: (1) modernize the nation's infrastructure; (2) enhance America's energy independence; (3) expand educational opportunities; (4) preserve and improve affordable health care; (5) provide tax relief; and (6) protect those in greatest need.


What the hell does that mean? Of the six vague things listed, #5 is the only one that MIGHT help with the economy.


Another part of Obama’s stimulus was the complete removal of everyone’s health privacy. We better hope this was one of the parts bargained out of the plan. Consider this from www.forhealthfreedom.org:

“(Washington, DC)—The Institute for Health Freedom (IHF) warns that the economic stimulus bill mandates electronic health records for every citizen without providing for opt-out or patient consent provisions. "Without those protections, Americans’ electronic health records could be shared—without their consent—with over 600,000 covered entities through the forthcoming nationally linked electronic health-records network," says Sue A. Blevins, IHF president.

“President Obama has pledged to advance freedom. Therefore the freedom to choose not to participate in a national electronic health-records system must be upheld,” Blevins says. “Unless people have the right to decide if and when their health information is shared or whether to participate in research studies, they don’t have a true right to privacy.”IHF calls on Americans who care about health privacy to contact their members of Congress and President Obama to voice their own opinions about the need for opt-out and patient consent provisions, to ensure true patient privacy rights.

Some provisions of the economic stimulus bill include:

* "The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014."* "The National Coordinator shall perform the duties…consistent with the development of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of information and that…facilitates health and clinical research…"

The federal medical privacy rule promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) already permits the disclosure of personal health information without patient consent for treatment, payment, and oversight of the healthcare system. IHF has long called for modification of the HIPAA rule to restore patient consent in order to preserve the confidential doctor-patient relationship. The stimulus bill fails to restore patient consent, while at the same time, mandating electronic health records and facilitating the electronic exchange of every American's health information.”

The real problem isn’t that the government is attempting to fix the economy; oh that’s bad, but not the truly radical problem. The root problem is that the people think the government can fix it. The republicans supported Bush and the stupid things he did, and now the democrats are going to trust Obama and his ridiculous plans. The government can’t do anything right, how can anyone trust it? Our TV’s were due to all go digital this month. Now it won’t happen until June. Why? Because the government wanted to pass out coupons to everyone so they could purchase a converter box—and they ran out of the coupons. The government screwed up a coupon!

The only thing the government is truly good at is stimulating its own growth.