Posted by
grad_1986 on Saturday, August 08, 2009 2:00:10 PM
It seems Halloween keeps coming earlier and earlier every year. Its seems just like yesterday my wife and I were handing out gobs of fancily wrapped chocolates and other sweets. But here we are, August 8th and I haven't even gone shopping yet.
Oh wait! Halloween isn't on August 8th (actually its my brother's birthday... Happy Birthday Jim!) but apparently our politicians think it is. Why? Because they are rolling out the biggest bowl of "goodies" our country has ever witnessed in its 233 year history, that's why! But this isn't just ANY NORMAL candy. No. This is "special" candy the government hopes will take and gorge ourselves on. Why? Because there is poison inside that is why.
As any good parent, I have always gone through my child's candy to make sure none of it has been tampered with. We all know that there are crazies out there that get their jollies by harming little children and we don't want that to be our child.
We as good citizens are being asked to "not look too closely" at this bill and take it at its face value and pass it. Like people who poison dogs by wrapping poison in hunks of meat, the dog doesn't smell the poison until its too late and they have already taken the bait and are mindlessly gorging themselves on the delicious red meat. So it is with this bill. You see, as with all bills there is good and bad. There may be some very good things in this bill. But inside it is also a lot of bad economic poison in it that will cripple our country for decades to come. It's an all-or-nothing proposal to our politicians and Obama knows it. We can't just take part of it and leave the rest behind. It's too big to read and understand its ramifications (and Obama knows that too). It's also being pushed through too quicklly and there is no time to debate and analyze. (or at least that is what Obama is saying, like there is some sort of expiration date on the bill).
We need to use our common sense I think before we take this candy, for once we do, there is no turning back the clock. We need to slow down. We need to unwrap this candy and examine it thoroughly for what could be inside it. We also need to know WHO is providing us this candy and their intentions. Is it Grandma Jones or Charlie Manson? It makes a big difference. We also need to know WHO wrote this bill and what are their intentions. I don't think this bill was written by our politicians in the past 6 months. No! I think this bill was written by a variety of think-tanks and special-interest groups like SEIU and ACORN.
I, for one, am not ready to eat this piece of "special candy", and I think most of America is with me on that too.
Leave "Trick or Treat" to the children on Halloween night and keep it out of our government!