Once again, Obama showed up 15 minutes late for his much awaited economic speech today about the $800 billion federal spending boondoogle. In his speech, he took a page out of the Carter textbook, sans sweater, and bemoaned the state of the economy. He painted a bleak picture and warned that if the government did not come to the rescue with hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus, we would face "dire consequences" for years to come. It sounds like he is trying to paint as bleak a picture of the economy as he can so he can manage our expectations!

Geez, I'm glad I watch that speech live. How uplifting! In this package is the usual nonsense about spending for infrastructure, alternative energy, updating most federal buildings to improve energy efficiency, making medical records electronic, expanding broadband networks, and rebuilding schools. And of course, a $1,000 tax cut for 95% of working families, including the ones that do not pay any income taxes.For this crap we have to spend $800 billion? What, no Man on Mars program thrown in to round it up to $1 trillion?

In the speech there was NO mention of....

 

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The Beltway Blowhards paparazzi managed to catch the two clowns, Clueless Harry Reid and Nancy Petulant Pelosi, arriving in DC yesterday. You will not see this photograph of the Majority Leader and Speaker of the House anywhere else.




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2009 begins tomorrow and the Beltway Blowhards, those 535 geniuses in both the House and Senate, are scheduled to get an automatic cost of living increase of about $4,700 each (about $2.5 million in total).  This amount of money may not sound like much considering how much loot  these morons waste each day bailing out the banks, insurance companies, auto makers and, in their spare time, sending a a few billion dollars of pork to their districts.

HOWEVER, with hundreds of thousands of Americans getting layed off, downsized, or facing salary freezes or cuts, these Potomac Pontificators should reject these raises and take a VOTE so we know where each and every one of them stands on this issue. These lawmakers should be happy to have a job, considering how poorly they perform. If they worked in the private sector, they would have been terminated long ago for sub-standard performance.

A few members of Congress have introduced legislation to stop the automatic pay adjustments, but the bills have died in committee.

They should also pass legislation FREEZING all federal, non-military, salaries until the federal budget has been balanced.

These blowhards ranted and raved at the auto CEO's a few weeks ago to take $1.00 in salary per year until their companies turned a profit. At the same time they spend our money like drunken sailors with little regard for the future fiscal consequences. The only thing they seem to care about is getting re-elected.

The solution to this problem  is real simple. DOUBLE the pay raise for each and every blowhard to $9,400 on only ONE condition - that they stay home the ENTIRE year, pass no legislation, and conduct weekly town hall meetings so they can listen to how fed up we are with their moronic behavior.

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone, even the Beltway Blowhards!                                          

Ron Gettelfinger, aka Ron Goldfinger, the head of the U.A.W., said yesterday that the critics of The Shrinking Three federal bailout must be  "insane"  for opposing it.