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Thursday, July 02, 2009
When Hope Doesn't Change
Posted by: Duane R. Patterson at 9:00 AM
The June jobs report is out, and almost half a million Americans who had employment at the beginning of June have now lost their jobs. Do you remember the rhetoric used by the Obama administration earlier in the year to sell the non-stimulus stimulus bill, which turned out to be a trillion dollars, more or less, of pork projects?

Larry Summers told Wolf Blitzer on CNN back in February that, "You'll see the effects begin almost immediately. Christina Romer told Fox News around the same time that, "We will start adding jobs, rather than losing them at more than a half million a month." 

Let's face it - they were wrong. And Republicans said they'd be wrong, and voted en masse in the Congress against the bill. For a stimulus to be effective, it has to be targeted, temporary and actually stimulative. President Obama and the Democrats put forth no such bill, and the results speak for themselves.  

We're now four months later, and the same Democrats who brought you the non-stimulus bill, that hasn't stimulated anything except the deficit and national debt by any measurable standard, are not only trying to say, 'trust us' again with the cap and tax and tax and tax bill, but trust us with taking over the entire country's health care system.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice and thrice, shame on me. Call your Senators. The dollars proposed are too massive to cede to a group of people who just went to the well and came up rocks. 202-224-3121. It doesn't matter whether they're Democrat or Republican. Just say no.  

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