My email to Senators Warner & Webb
By E M Barner | Saturday, February 7th, 2009 | PolicyDear Senator:
Like the rest of us, you will die. I would consider it a personal favor if you would not obligate me and any children I might have in the future to work off an additional 1.2 trillion dollars of national debt (or whatever the final number turns out to be) after you are dead.
In Washington, D.C. I know its easy to forget that you are not just playing with rhetoric. You aren’t spending monopoly money. You are spending MY money.
And, by every account I’m reading, your Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House have really forgotten what representative government means. I hope you haven’t forgotten too.
Even if spending a lot of taxpayer dollars would magically fix the economy (a historically unlikely prospect), these dollars are not of the sort that are going to stimulate anything.
I am among the majority of your constituents who think that a vote in favor of this boondoggle is an evidence of sheer partisanship and an insult to those you are supposed to represent. I will recall your vote on H.R.1.
Yours Sincerely
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E M Barner, the blogger formerly known as DCH / De Civitate Hominis (“concerning the city of man”), writes from a Northern Virginia perspective. Barner has been active in Republican politics and policy since 1994 – as a grassroots volunteer, party leader, and professional.
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5 Responses to "My email to Senators Warner & Webb"
Obviously you are still rightly angry over Bush increasing the size of our national debt from a little less than $6 trillion to over $12 in just 8 years. Yes, it was an amazing accomplishment to – at a time of supposed “growth” in our national economy (though it is hard to call stagnant wages and 1/4 the number of jobs created under Clinton “growth”) – to actually have increased the debt by nearly a trillion dollars a year.
W – just like Wall Street – put that Harvard MBA to good use. I guess at least his buddies in NY got rich… Let’s just hope we never have another Republican with a financial background in the WH again. Our children certainly couldn’t afford it.
Mark,
So isn’t it ironic how all of the democrats for years were yelling at bush over deficits (even though all the dems voted for the spending too), blaming them for our economic troubles, but now all of a sudden they are advocating even more debt as a solution? If deficits were supposedly the reason for a bad economy (rather then a housing bubble created by a loose credit and overly leverged GSEs), then why would more debt be the cure now? Is democrat debt so much different then republican debt? And if keynsian fiscal stimulus truelly worked, wouldnt the large dificits of the bush years be “stimulus” as well? Howed that work out? Am i the only one who sees the inconsistancy here?
Bush just cut taxes which don’t stimulate anything – thank you for learning a lesson that seems to be over the heads of the GOP Congress.
Government spending stimulates the economy b/c it gives people jobs when private industry is laying off/ not hiring. Thus, it gets $$ into the economy, people are spending again and shazam, you’re out of the depression/ recession. It’s not rocket science – though if you listened to Sen. Shelby you’d think it was…
And yes, of course the Dems/ any one with any sense was pissed that Bush doubled our national debt – it’s a economic catastrophe. The problem is that Bush’s economic disaster led us to too few choices, government spending is about all that is left. Unless you want to go back to living in a cardboard box – seriously, does ANYONE remember Hoover’s Rx for the crash? Tax cuts. It’s like we have to re-learn all the same lessons every 60 years.
Is true that on page 126 of the stimulus or any other page , that veteran will pay 50% on their medical cost. I put 20 years and offered my life for our country and to have this happen at the age of 69 sence i’m on fix income. thank you for your assistant.
Like the rest of us, you will die. I would consider it a personal favor if you would not obligate me and any children I might have in the future to work off an additional 1.2 trillion dollars of national debt (or whatever the final number turns out to be) after you are dead.
In Washington, D.C. I know its easy to forget that you are not just playing with rhetoric. You aren’t spending monopoly money. You are spending MY money.
And, by every account I’m reading, your Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House have really forgotten what representative government means. I hope you haven’t forgotten too.
Even if spending a lot of taxpayer dollars would magically fix the economy (a historically unlikely prospect), these dollars are not of the sort that are going to stimulate anything.
I am among the majority of your constituents who think that a vote in favor of this boondoggle is an evidence of sheer partisanship and an insult to those you are supposed to represent. I will recall your vote on H.R.1.
Yours Sincerely
Steve
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