Conservative Rumblings

Barney Frank, one of the most pathetic congressmen in the absolutely hated Pelosi/Reid Do Nothing Congress, is also the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and one of the architects of the financial market fiasco (thanks in large part to his receiving campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and looking the other way when they did bad things while he was on the House Banking Committee).

Now, he is calling for cuts to the military and increased taxes.

Why? Another stimulus-palooza!!!

After the November election, Democrats will push for a second economic stimulus package that includes money for the states’ stalled infrastructure projects, along with help paying for healthcare expenses, food stamps and extended unemployment benefits, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said Thursday.

There are so many things wrong with that paragraph. Let’s start:

1. Let the states fund their own infrastructure. If they can’t, they don’t need it.
2. Healthcare is not a charity nor is it a right. It’s a business. Doctors are not state employees; that is their livelihood. Not the government’s place to be paying for it.
3. Food stamps = welfare. Welfare = bad. Nuff said.
4. Unemployment benefits only encourage the bums to sit on their, well, bums, and not get jobs. Slash ‘em! As the great Ronald Reagan once said, the best social program is a JOB!

In a meeting with the editorial board of The Standard-Times, Rep. Frank, D-Mass., also called for a 25 percent cut in military spending, saying the Pentagon has to start choosing from its many weapons programs, and that upper-income taxpayers are going to see an increase in what they are asked to pay.

So the barbarians are at the gate, we are fighting two wars plus an overarching ‘war on terror’ and Iran and North Korea are threatening to start WWIII. And you want to CUT THE MILITARY SPENDING? How about instead we remove you from office and use your salary to buy another tank?

Unfortunately for the Dems, the 80/20 rule that works in business does not work for taxes. You can’t just sit on the “upper-income” taxpayers and expect that to fix the economy. The “upper-income” business taxpayers (who already pay one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world) are the backbone of our economy.

You tax the big guys too hard, they stop expanding their businesses and stop hiring, which HURTS the economy. Spending goes down and unemployment goes up. Frank already knows this, of course; that’s why he’s pushing for more unemployment benefits.