Here's what those pointy headed intellectual elites don't get about the "stimulus" package. The average American person doesn't want or expect our government to bail them out. The average American wants the government to get out of their lives.
Think about it. How many times a day does the government stick its nose into your business (and it's hand into your wallet, I might add). If you had cereal with a little milk this morning for breakfast, you can thank the government for the price you paid for the milk, since the government puts a floor under the price of milk via farm subsidies. You stop and get gas and a cup of coffee at the convenience store and you've paid 18.4 cents a gallon in federal tax and anywhere from 7.5 (GA) to 31.9 (NY)cents. Where I live, you paid an extra 6% tax on the cup of coffee. You head to work and have to go through a toll road, there's another $1.25. The tax on your lunch is another $1.50. Then you get your paycheck that afternoon and the $1000 you earned turned into $650. There's federal income tax, FICA, state tax, Social Security tax. If you own the business forget about it. From the time you get there in the morning the government is in your face.
At no point does the average American ask the government for anything, other than to get out of the way! Let us do the heavy lifting that we are completely capable of doing. We are still doing the heavy lifting today, we just do it with the burden of carrying of Uncle Sam our backs.
Frank Rich doesn't get it...
Will they ever "get" the fact that the government does not create jobs, except through the confiscatory collection of taxes (at the pint of gun and under threat of imprisonment, I might add)? Clearly Arlen Spector doesn't get it...
Will we ever be able to recover from this porkulus bill?
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