Stop Calling It A ‘Stimulus’ Plan, It Is A ‘Spending’ Plan

Please. Stop calling the Democrats’ massive $825 billion outline a “stimulus” plan. It’s nothing more than a massive “spending” plan wrapped in lies. Dems are notorious for their approach of spending every last dollar we have and every last dollar we don’t have, and that’s all this is. A little bit of stimulus and a whole lot of spending.

While so many Americans are blinded by the glowing halo of their Dear Leader, Dems on the Hill are cramming every bit of wasteful spending into this latest economic plan under the guise of its benefit to our country’s financial state. One shining example was offered up this weekend by House Speaker Pelosi who said that contraceptives were a critical component of stimulating our economy:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those – one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.

Babies are too expensive for our economy? Well with that line of reasoning, so are old people. Sorry, Pelosi, but we can’t keep you around anymore. You’re just too expensive and, like you said, we have to deal the consequences.

Don’t forget the rest of the pork stuffed into this plan despite Barry’s claims that pork and special interests were done under his watch. House Republican Leader, John Boehner, called highlighted these so-called “stimulus” spending items:

• $600 million for new cars for the federal government
• $1 billion “to minimize undercounting of minority groups” in the 2010 census
• $400 million for NASA for global warming
• $400 million for “National Treasures”
• $6 billion for colleges/universities, many of which have massive billion dollar endowments
• $166 billion in direct aid to states, many of which have failed to budget wisely
• $650 million more for digital television conversation [sic] coupons

Thankfully, Republicans are not letting this waste go unchallenged:

“There’s got to be some kind of litmus as to whether it will really stimulate the economy,” McCain said on “Fox News Sunday,” adding later: “There has to be major rewrites [of the legislation] if we want to stimulate the economy.”

McCain’s comments were echoed by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he and many of his colleagues could not support the measure in its current form because they “see this as a lot of wasteful Washington spending, padding the bureaucracy and doing nothing to help create jobs and preserve jobs.”

If this new administration is sincere about helping our economy then it needs to step in and tell Congress to do what’s right rather than what it wants. I’m not hopeful.

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