I write this column without any illusion that it will reverse America’s current movement toward socialism. Rather I am writing it primarily so that future generations will not be able to say that the radical and destructive nature of the Obama/Democratic Party’s so-called stimulus plan was unknown at the time. I am writing this so that my children will know that their father vigorously opposed it and why.

How radical -- in fact, revolutionary -- is the $789 billion stimulus plan? It is, in the words of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., “the largest change in domestic policy since the 1930s.”

It is, as Robert Rector, identified by the Times of London as “one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill,” “a welfare spendathon that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history.”

It is the reason the Obama-supporting Newsweek headlined on its cover page, “We are all socialists now.”

It is why, in the words of The Times of London, “Republicans are not alone in fearing that Obama’s hastily concocted package is the first step towards the creation of a quasi-socialist welfare state.”

President Obama and the Democrats have put America into nearly $1 trillion dollars more debt by using the cover of America’s current economic crisis to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on welfare programs, green projects, and on schools.

In a nutshell, the stimulus plan is not a stimulus plan. It is the largest spending program in U.S. history. In the words of the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman editorial that supports the bill, “The essence of the bill is to spend money …”

Almost everything about it is dishonest.

Its name is dishonest. It is a spending bill, not a stimulus bill. Continued...