California Conservative

NANCY PELOSI: Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs. I don’t think we can go fast enough to stop that.

There seems to be a fuzzy math virus filtering its way through DC these days. Whether it’s Timothy Geithner not paying taxes or Ms. Pelosi telling fellow Democrats that hundreds of millions of jobs will be lost if the stimulus bill isn’t passed, Democrats don’t seem strong with math. (They don’t seem strong in the area of ethics, either.)

Hasn’t Ms. Pelosi been told that the population of the United States is 305,000,000? Why haven’t Ms. Pelosi’s staffers told her that there’s approximately 150,000,000 people either employed or actively seeking employment? You’d think that with they’d be able to find Democrats with that type of information that could serve on her staff.

More importantly, Ms. Pelosi, the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, has stepped beyond spin with this statement. Let’s set aside the number of people that will lose their jobs. Let’s focus on whether this bill will create jobs.

• What impact will spending $335,000,000 on STD prevention and education have on job creation?
• What impact will spending $1,000,000,000 on Amtrak have on job creation?
• What impact will spending $4,190,000,000 on community stabilization activities have on job creation?

What is certain about this bill is that it will create high inflation rates. High inflation has the same effect as a tax increase because a person’s money doesn’t buy as much as when inflation is under control. Another certainty is that this legislation will eventually require a tax increase. You can’t keep running trillion dollar deficits without it destroying the economy.

This bill isn’t about putting the economy on the right track. It was about paying off the Democrats’ special interest allies with our taxes. (BTW, that’s a telltale sign that President Obama played a part in this legislation. Alot of his allies have been salivating at the thought of him repaying them for their hard work.)

The moral of this sad story is that Nancy Pelosi is a typical Democrat. She’s perfectly willing to say totally outlandish things to pass legislation to pay off the Democrats’ special interest allies. What’s worst about the Democrats’ setting political payoffs as their highest priority is that they’ve shown that righting the United States’ economy isn’t their highest priority.

It’s time that We The People stopped tolerating the Democrats’ misprioritization. It’s time that we stopped rationalizing them caring more about their special interest allies than they care about people who make America great.

Most importantly, it’s time that we told Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats that we won’t be led by people who are intellectually dishonest and intellectually bankrupt. It’s time that we threw Ms. Pelosi and her Democrat loyalists out on their keister.

If Democrats won’t put us first, we’ll do everything we can to help them finish second best on election night, 2010.

Technorati Tags: Recession, Inflation, Stimulus Package, Interest Rates, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Pork, Special Interests, Democrats, Tax Cuts, Job Growth, Republicans

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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