You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!

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twilight-zoneI think World Net Daily hit the nail on the head in this post!
When we think of the word “chaos,” normally we associate it with spontaneous acts of malcontents rebelling without a cause.
 
But most of the chaos in the world today is what I call “directed chaos” – usually government-directed and with one single-minded purpose: the consolidation of power.
 
That’s the way I interpret the so-called “economic stimulus” legislation approved by the Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by President Obama.
 
There is no way it will stimulate the economy. It will have the opposite effect – lengthening and deepening the economic crisis in which America finds itself.
 
Does anyone truly believe we’re in this mess because the U.S. government didn’t spend enough recently? Of course not. Congress and President Bush spent money like drunken sailors. They caused this calamity because of their irresponsibility and their disregard for the Constitution. Can the cure be possibly more of the same? I don’t think so.
 
But take a look at how the money will be spent, for evidence of the “cure” is actually worse than the disease.
 
Of the $800 billion in the so-called “stimulus” bill, only $90 billion will actually go toward things like building highways, upgrading the electrical power grid or meaningful business tax cuts. Far more, however, will be used to revive welfare as we used to know it. Some $264 billion will be directed to encouraging states to sign up more people on welfare.
 
But it gets worse. This welfare is worse than the old one that everyone – Democrats and Republicans alike – agreed to dismantle in the 1990s.
 
It’s called the “Make Work Pay” program, and it includes $23 billion per year to provide up to $500 cash to low-income adults who pay no taxes. The program will mark the first time the federal government will hand out significant cash to able-bodied adults without dependent children!
 
Does that make sense to you?
 
Probably not.
 
But it has been thought out. I want you to know that. This program, along with the whole of the so-called “stimulus” bill, has been considered carefully. No member of Congress may have read the bill. But that bill was written by someone. The programs it creates have been in the works for years. Money is being handed out to people who helped get Obama and the Democrats elected. Groups like ACORN, the shock troops and brown shirts of their movement, are being paid off with billions of dollars.
 
It has all been planned. And the goal is not to help the economy. The goal is to achieve chaos, because chaos leads to more government control – and that’s what Obama and the Democratic Congress want more than anything.
 
They don’t believe they should be bothered with elections or dissent or any of the nuisances of a free society. They believe they deserve perpetual power, because they are part of the enlightened elite.
 
They know socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried. But they also believe they can do better. They can make it work, because they are smarter than the guys who have bungled it in the past.
 
In the meantime, prepare for chaos.
 
Prepare for harder times than you have seen in your lifetime.
 
Prepare for more debt.
 
Prepare for more redistribution of wealth, more unfairness and inequity.
 
Prepare for one bailout after another.
 
Prepare for more “emergency” legislation like the so-called “stimulus” bill.
 
Prepare for unilateral executive action through presidential decision directives.
 
Prepare for attacks on the free press and free speech.
 
This is where we are inevitably going with the “change” promises by Obama.
 
You’re going to get change all right.
 
The government is going to show you how bad it can get, so you will accept its most draconian solutions.
 
You haven’t seen anything yet.
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Posted on February 23rd 2009 in Uncategorized

Enjoy your $2.60!

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“The final price tag on the stimulus bill is either $787 billion or $9.7 trillion, depending on how one defines words like “final” and “stimulus” and whether you are getting your news from a liberal or conservative news source. If you want your news straight … well, so do I. (But then I’d know how large the stimulus bill actually is. )
 
The fact is that there are as many possible definitions as there are people to define them. President Obama redefined “earmark” so that it meant anything added after the fact, not pork tacked on from the beginning in order to buy congressional votes.
 
Thus, $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts qualifies as emergency stimulus spending, not pork. The 4 BILLION (with a “b”) for ACORN isn’t really a political payoff. It’s necessary emergency spending to stave off economic “catastrophe.” Without ACORN, how could the economy survive?
 
It is easily the most massive fraud in history, and it is being perpetrated with barely a peep of public opposition. In the first place, nobody understands the amounts of money involved.
 
Even at $787 billion, what does that mean? A billion seconds ago, Jimmy Carter was president of the U.S. A billion minutes ago, Herod was king of Judea.
 
I’ve read all kinds of calculations regarding what the final price tag is to cost each individual American, but again, it depends on some sliding scale of definitions too esoteric for ordinary humans to understand.
 
Somewhere between $1,600 for every man woman and child on earth (on the low end of the scale) to pretty much whatever number one wants to create – using an equally esoteric sliding scale for decimal points.
 
Let’s just say that it’s more than breathtaking. (To pay for it, don’t be surprised to hear plans for breath-taxing.)
 
There has never been a spending plan this large in the history of man. To pull it off, all pretense at keeping previous international trade and currency agreements has been completely abandoned. The “Buy American” clause stands in naked violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
 
The printing of money to subsidize an economic downturn is a violation of a number of international currency agreements in force since Nixon removed U.S. currency from the gold standard.
 
The other day, Sen. Chuck Schumer defended a planned $1.2 trillion expenditure by the Federal Reserve by shrugging, “It’s not taxpayer money.” He didn’t mean to, but Schumer let slip the big secret that only Americans are ignorant of.
 
It isn’t taxpayer money; it’s pretend money. It doesn’t exist until it is printed.
 
The only reason the extra $1.2 trillion isn’t counterfeit is because the Fed is authorized to print it, but it will accomplish the same thing. Doubling the amount of currency in circulation has the effect of halving the purchasing weight of the currency already in circulation.
 
Gerald Celente summed it up well on Glenn Beck’s program the other day: “This isn’t Economics 101. It’s not even Economics for Dummies!”
 
According to the latest economic information, the stock market is down a whopping 2,000 points since Election Day. (It makes you wonder what investors know that the rest of us don’t.)
 
And the economic stimulus bill gives a tax cut that amounts, on average, to about $13 more per week in your after-tax paycheck, or about $2.60 per day. (Never mind. Now we all know.)
 
Almost a trillion dollars in new spending and tax cuts – for a wage benefit for the average worker of about $2.60 per day. Well, America voted for change. And America got it.
 
Almost enough change to pay for one coffee break.
 
Tax cuts that would have genuinely benefited the economy – like a tax break for buying a U.S. made car or a tax credit for buying a new home – were dropped.
 
Provisions that would spend tens of millions to help people quit smoking or $50 million for energy upgrades for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Cemeteries Division remain intact.
 
Also intact is $8 billion (with a “b”) for high-speed rail service from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Nothing like investing $8 billion to bail out suffering casinos as an economic stimulus.
 
These numbers aren’t merely unsustainable; they are unimaginable. It is almost as if there were a deliberate decision undertaken to “fix” the economy by spending it out of existence, forcing the creation of a new economic system in its place and … hey, wait a minute!
 
Naw. Nobody is that diabolical. But still … “- Hal Lindsey
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Posted on February 16th 2009 in Uncategorized