If there’s a theme for the Obama years, and for the Pelosi/Reid legislation Obama has embraced, it’s that of spending tremendous amounts of taxpayer dollars to accomplish almost nothing. Consider:
- The stimulus spent $787 billion dollars of taxpayer money to pretend to create fake jobs in non-existent congressional districts.
- If cap-and-trade ever makes it out of congress, it will impose hundred of billions of dollars in taxes to (maybe) lower temperatures by 0.1°C by 2100. And given that Anthropogenic Global Warming increasingly appears to be a creation of scientific fraud, probably not even that.
- And then there’s ObamaCare. It’s extraordinarily unpopular. How much will it cost? One estimate was $6 trillion, but that was weeks and untold bill revisions ago. No one knows, because no one has had the time to read all of the 2,100 page bill Harry Reid has cobbled together. Those on the right who have read significant potions believe it amounts to the government takeover of health care. And several notable doyens of the left, including Moveon.org, Howard Dean, and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas are saying that the bill is a massive giveaway to insurance companies. Sadly, they’re both probably right. Either way, the taxpayer is still the loser.
What all three have in common?
- All are hugely expensive. How expensive no one knows, but given the vast increase we’ve seen in the cost of Social Security, Medicare, etc., my guess would be tens of trillions of dollars over the next 30 years.
- All are exteremly unpopular among the taxpayers who are being asked to foot the bill.
- All accomplish almost nothing except increase the size of the federal government and channeling money to Obama allies like ACORN and SEIU.
The way things are going, the slaughter of Democratic incumbents in the 2010 election could make 1994 look like a picnic by comparison…
Update:
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<Troy McClure>Hi, I’m Lawrence Person! You may remember me from such Flamewars as “ObamaCare is all about choice, or rather, taking choices away from American citizens and giving them to government bureaucrats” and “From Iran to Honduras, millions of people around the world long for freedom and democracy. And wherever those seeking freedom can be found, Obama will be there…grinding his bootheel into their face”.</Troy McClure>
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