Most would expect stimulus funds to go to areas hardest hit by the recession or places where investment can most efficiently produce results. According to the above mentioned study more money went to Democrat districts than went to Republican districts, by almost double. When the stimulus was pushed through, opponents claimed it was nothing more than redistribution of wealth and borrowing from our kids. It appears the redistribution is from Republican to Democratic coffers. Those who supported Barry and his bunch got their payoff. While Democratic representatives campaign on how much money they brought home to constituents, productive taxpaying members of society (GOP for short) are left holding the check.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is saying that we must take action to bring down the deficit if we want the economy to grow. In saying this, the call is on for higher taxes to pay for the misdirected stimulus spending. So deficit spending has gone from the answer to the problem in less than eight months. What about the harm that higher taxes would do to our economy. When you raise taxes you reduce the amount of money available for investment and business expansion. It was argued during the debate on stimulus that it would be paid for through an expanded tax base once we recover, but no new taxes would be needed. Of course anyone with half an understanding of economics knew this was half-baked at best and a blatant lie at worst. The opposition pointed out over and over that record spending matched with our current conditions would necessitate higher taxes.

It would be helpful if the Treasury Secretary would do some reading on economics and while he is at it perhaps a perusal of the Constitution.

According to the Small Business Administration small businesses (those with under 500 employees) make up 99.7% of American businesses. These people work hard, invest in their business and try to make solid business decisions. One cot that is beyond their control is taxes. When the government taxes them through corporate taxes, fees, payroll taxes, mandatory contributions or any number of other routes they must pay those increased costs somehow. These bailouts are being paid for by people who have done things right, made bad choices and sacrificed. This is theft, plain and simple.

With the taxes on competing companies and their suppliers then the immorality of these bailouts is even more obvious. Ford Motor Company, her employees and her suppliers are paying to bailout the competition. Imagine owning a company and being forced to keep your competition in business.

A free market requires competition. When the government jumps in to help one business or industry it muddies the water and our nation loses the one factor that has made it so great—freedom to compete, to seek a profit and even the freedom to fail. Subsidies for bad business choices and out of control unions will not bring prosperity.

Barack Obama, our legally elected president, each day turns his back on the goals of our founders and the nation they created. He has worked steadily to convert the US into a new Europe, following their lead in social issues, economy and government. From forcing companies to take federal money, dangling it before others and, now we learn, even refusing to allow some to return the money, the Obama administration has used a power never granted by the Constitution to control swaths of our economy. With near dictatorial powers over banking and investing and moves to interject federal control into the medical industry, President Obama is using fear and misguided zeal to tighten his grip on the reigns of power.

With the American people, once too proud to submit to foreign dominion, now groveling before the promise of federal aid and rescue, one can easily imagine Obama as the serpent in the American garden hissing poisonous promises: “You can be like Europe.”

I have a simple answer to this whole mess. Distinguished members of Congress, never ever, under any circumstances approve a bill that you do not have time to read. When you see legislation that is scheduled in such a way that no one can read it the alarm bells and flashing lights should go off. Something is going on, and it is seldom what it appears. Congress fell down and worshiped before the image of the new president. Those on the left saw a chance to use our economic condition and the sentiment that something, anything, had to be done to push through years of liberal agenda in one pass.

Now we are paying for their lack of responsibility. The economy is important, and I understand the sentiment that once said “It’s the economy stupid.” But pushing forward legislation without examining what is inside is an attack on the American people at worst and panic mongering at best.

Now Arlen says the nation is on the brink of depression and that if the stimulus package had failed to pass the nation would have “slid off the brink.” It is safe to say, Mr. Specter, that you believed your action was right for the country and that spending almost a trillion dollars on undisclosed liberal pet projects was somehow good for America. That is the problem and the greatest proof that removing you from that seat is the best medicine for an ailing America.

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