Saturday, February 14, 2009

Government smarter than 300 million people???

When analyzing what our Constitution tells our government to do and thinking about what our government really does there is only one conclusion that a person can come up with. Government officials in Washington, including the over 500 congressmen, President, V.P., and all the President's staff, believe they are smarter than 300 million Americans in this country. They propose stimulus packages that are suppose to "create jobs". Except these jobs are being created where these officials feel they should be created not where the free market (the spending of over 300 million Americans) believe they should be created. Lets look at this.

Do you think if instead of $800 billion being spent on all the different programs the Obama administration have laid out was given to the American people, that we would spend that money on the same things these government officials have proposed? Do you think we would have spent that money on STD prevention programs, Honey Bee Insurance, Safe Sex for Gays, Buildings being upgraded, etc...

Government is suppose to work for us not the other way around. I for one believe that government needs to stay out of the economy and stop inflating credit so that people who do not deserve homes buy homes, buy homes that are too expensive for them, and then when interest rates rise, they lose their homes, home prices fall in the area, and credit tightens, banks fail, etc... Where if bad loans had not been loaned in the first place this episode would never have happened. Government caused this mess and now they believe they are entitled to fix it?? Makes a lot of sense... NOT! Lets cut our losses, lower government spending, let the market correct (meaning home prices adjust cheaper than they are because they went up too high to begin with) and then not make this mistake again. The recession will end just as fast that way as it will with government simply transferring funds from the American people to areas they believe this money should be spent in order to "stimulate" the economy. The American people will have to pay more for goods due to inflation after this money is put into our economy. Thus either way you look at it, we are paying for this 800 billion. Not to mention when we have to pay off our debt eventually. It makes me sick to believe that our government is doing what Communist Russia did when it could not even feed their own people.