Eight Thousand Dollars

$8,000 for you. $8,000 for your spouse. $8,000 for your Mom. your Dad, your Son, your Daughter. $8,000 for each of your friends. We would all have to pay more than $8,000 for every man, woman, child, and those unborn to pay the cost of the Democrat/Obama stimulus package over the next ten years based on costs estimated by the CBO.

Now my math might be off, I have trouble when that many zeros are involved. This is by far the largest spending bill ever considered in the US. We bought the western half of the US and Alaska cheaper. The entire New Deal cost less.

Yet Nancy and Harry and Obama expect our Congressmen and Senators to vote on the 600-page bill without reading it. Would you trust a lawyer or a banker or a politician enough to sign a paper without reading it? Would you sign a contract that ensures every member of your family will have to pay $8,000 without reading the fine print?

I read a lot. I go through an average of two books a week plus newspapers, magazines and blogs. I can easily read a page a minute in a standard hardback novel. Histories and technical prose I read a bit slower. I could not read this bill in the twelve or so hours available before the vote. Yet the Democratic Party leaders expect their colleagues to read, understand a vote on a bill that will affect generations to come with no time to read the fine print.

No matter what party is involved, call your Representative and Senator and urge them to read the bill prior to voting. Will a few days really matter? What secret measures are included? Is there a provision to make Obama king for life? Are we spending millions to protect a fucking mouse habitat in San Franscico? As a matter of fact we are. What jobs does that create? With so much of our money at stake shouldn't we know what we are buying? Is it too much to ask the Congress to put at least as much research and questions as we would if we were buying a car or stove or a damn iPod? What is in there they do not want us to know about?

After all -- it is only your money.

Hope and change indeed.

edit: he says it better