During the debate over his Porkulus package, Obama claimed that without it unemployment would “skyrocket over 8.5%”. I’m sorry Mr. President, but unemployment skyrocketed because of your stimulus.

May’s numbers out of Ohio are dismal. The Buckeye State’s unemployment rate hit 10.8% and the national rate is 9.5% with today’s numbers for June. In Dayton, Ohio, a company which has been in Ohio since the 19th century, NCR, has decided to relocate to another state. Columbia, SC, is using money from the President’s Stimulus Package to lure NCR away from Ohio. I’m sorry people, but all the road projects in the world won’t replace those long-term high paying jobs.

So my question to all of you is – Are You Feeling Stimulated?

According to the latest Gallup numbers – you aren’t.

63% are unsatisfied with the state of the nation
58% have a negative consumer mood
49% believe that economic conditions are poor
59% believe that things are getting worse

So it seems that none of you are feeling the least bit stimulated by all of Obama’s spending.

No nation has ever spend its way out of an economic crisis. NEVER. But Democrats always seem to think that spending money that the government doesn’t have is the solution to everything.

Winston Churchill said, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” So why would the people vote for Socialism? Because those who advocate its implementation are skilled at crafting its rhetoric in a package palatable by the masses. They are also skilled in eliminating dissenting opinions to their plan.

We see it here in the blogosphere with liberal trolls. Conservatives are attacked on every level except the idea. They attack the messenger and their family but not the idea. If they do mention the idea, they play the Al Franken game. They call us liars.

Now liberals have no scapegoats. They have a clear majority in the House, a clear majority in the Senate, and an ultra liberal (see also Socialist) in the White House. This economy is theirs. They’ve spent their way into this depressive state, now what do they propose to do about it. Spend more and tax you more to pay for it.

Before the masses get on board with the Democrat push for more taxes, perhaps they ought to take a page from a Republican failure.

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, 1930, passed by the U.S. Congress; it brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States. President Hoover desired a limited upward revision of tariff rates with general increases on farm products and adjustment of a few industrial rates. A congressional joint committee, however, in compromising the differences between a high Senate tariff bill and a higher House tariff bill, arrived at new high rates by generally adopting the increased rates of the Senate on farm products and those of the House on manufactures. Despite wide protest, the tariff act, called the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act because of its joint sponsorship by Representative Willis C. Hawley and Senator Reed Smoot, both Republicans, was signed (June, 1930) by President Hoover. The act brought retaliatory tariff acts from foreign countries, U.S. foreign trade suffered a sharp decline, and the depression intensified.

Raising taxes in an economic decline is NEVER a good idea. This President and this Congress are not only spending like a bunch of drunken sailors on their first liberty in a year, BUT they are raising taxes on everyone in spite of Mr. Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on anyone earning under $250,000 a year. Tobacco taxes, a threatened soda tax, a threatened Big Mac tax, and the very real threat of an energy tax that will eliminate anyone with limited income to improve their standard of living. As a matter of fact, it will lower many people’s standard of living through the elimination of jobs and higher energy bills.

But you won’t hear any of this in the media. Unless of course the press has become disenfranchised along with the rest of us. Even Helen Thomas from Hearst Newspapers and Chip Reid of CBS had a sparring match with Robert Gibbs yesterday about this Infestation’s attempts to control the media.

Thomas told CNSNews.com -

“Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. What the hell do they [the Obama Administration] think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

Thomas continued, “When you call the reporter the night before, you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you. I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well–for the town halls, for the press conferences. It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”Source

Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center said of the sparring match -

“Good for Helen Thomas and Chip Reid for standing up for journalistic principles and integrity. The fact that so many of their colleagues congratulated Helen for doing so shows that the press may finally have had it with being led around by the nose.

“To which I say – fantastic. But if the media are fed up with being manipulated, there’s an easy solution: stop allowing yourselves to be manipulated, and begin reporting with the skepticism these two exhibited and you all applauded.

“If every member of the media refused to stand for the White House tightly controlling them, the White House would have to stop doing it.”

It seems that the White House Press Corps is beginning to suffer from a lack of stimulation.

So, are you really feeling stimulated? I’m not.

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