Obama's Sleight of Hand, Divide, Distract, and Concur; The American Road to Socialism. Glenn Beck

Obama and his Socialist friends (Democrats) think they have us over a barrel, and they may be right. If we are not winning, then we are losing. If we are always going inch by inch down that road to Socialism, then we will eventually end up there. Does that not make sense? Reagan used to say that you don't get everything you want, all at once, you get it one piece at a time, and he was right. That is what the Socialists (Democrats) are doing, and if we don't stop them, if we don't truly change directions, then Socialism is what we will get, and it will be what we deserve.jbranstetter04 ...Stimulus Sleight of Hand...Lost in the reporting, however, is the inconvenient fact that there can be no such thing as a stimulus package. If I ask you for five thousand dollars and immediately turn around and give you back four, it may stimulate anger but not much else. For it will not do a thing for your ability to use what was originally five thousand and has now shrunk to four thousand dollars.The stimulus is for me in the form of one thousand dollars.What if I told you that upon returning the four, you now had to spend it in a manner that I designated was best for you? For instance, you did not want to buy a car, for whatever reason, but now I force you to pay the auto company with your returned money. I do not think you would be too happy about that. Or, what would you think if I did this after forcing you to put money into your local failed bank where you had already lost money? After all, what is a little more money if it means that your bank will stay open, for the good of all?This may seem a little silly and over simplistic, but in essence it is exactly what we are seeing the government put together as a so-called stimulus package.You cannot save an economy by first taking from the economy and then returning the money to failed entities. You do not save anything; what you are doing is building a controlled economy. This does not mean that it is a robust and safe economy, and it is certainly not a free economy.You cannot fill a water well by first taking water from the well and then putting it back. Water is always lost in the process.The same applies to the taxes taken from the people and then returned to the economy. How can I help you by taking from you and then returning a portion to you? There is always a portion kept for government operations that do nothing for the economy.We all understand this, yet the pundits and politicians tell us that a bloated government will save the day if we just take enough taxes from one sector and apply it to another failed sector.Returning to the water well, we can only get more water if we expand the well or dig new ones. If government gets in the way of individual, private initiative with massive regulations on planning, building the shovels, forcing non-sensible environmental regulations in the process, demanding union labor, sending in OSHA to watch, then redistributing the water to those who didnt help dig the well, taxing the entire process ... well, then you get an idea of why there is a shortage of water.The water industry then goes to Arabia to buy water which is hauled here in huge tankers. We have the water but the money for foreign water goes overseas and is lost to the economy. And, to top it off, the government blames everyone else for the shortfall in domestic water and the tremendous outflow of capital to foreign nations that is hurting the economy they profess to want to help.But do not worry, the government will stimulate the water shortage by taxing water even more. Government cannot stimulate the economy by taxing the economy, or regulating and taxing water. Of course it must be obvious that I am talking about domestic oil exploration, pumping, and refining.You cannot grow the economy by adding more taxes, either through direct taxation or the hidden method so loved by despots: inflation of the money supply. http://www.jbs.org/index.php/n...

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