There is no end to the irony, as this hypocrisy comes on the heels of those same Republicans busting that economy through financial industry deregulation, making that stimulus package necessary to fill the vacuum left when astronomically overleveraged investment banks found ways to divorce themselves from the risk of the loans they sold and those loans started going belly up.

Late one evening I was watching CSPAN and Acorn and the SEIU were positively giddy over the destruction that has already been done. They were ready to get on with remaking this country and forcing their view on all of us…I didn't want to believe what I was hearing… Mr. Obama and all of his progressive friends do not care about the Constitution. They are walking all over it.There was no stimulus project… It was a destruction project.

Stand and make your States be heard!

Hozro

What happened to the promised posting on the internet for five days? What happened to the promise of line-item vetos foe any "earmarks" included in proposed legislation? Remember, this was legislation that was going to put people back to work immediately and therefore had to be signed into law immediately, or the world was going to blow up! Well, here we are, months later. Only 5% of the "Stimulous" money has been spent. Unemployment has grown dramatically since the "Stimulous" legislation was signed into law (and this does not take into consideration the further growth in unemployment now that Chrysler and G.M. have filed bankruptcy. The deficit is now four times larger than it was on December 31, 2008. "The Treasury is empty. We have no more money.", these are Mr. Obama's own words.

We hope that Communist China will keep buying our debt because we can't afford for that to change. I now know what hope and change Mr. Obama has been talking about over these many months.

In the face of all of this, the President and his Democrat majority in Congress, want to push through "Cap and Trade" legislation that would add another $3,000 to $4,000 a year to homeowners energy bills AND national healthcare. The cost, only another trillion dollars over 10 years and that's just to cover a third of the 46 to 50 million uninsured. Somewhere, in the Byzantine labrynth that is Mr. Obama's mind, he has reached the conclusion that these expenditures will somehow reduce and ultimately eliminate our impossible, unsustainable national debt.

Like many others, I too look for leadership from a political party that will restore the country to fiscal sanity, restore employment and restore pride in its citizens. I am looking for leadership that is more concerned with returning to conservative values smaller government, lower taxes on businesses and individuals, self reliance and the creation of economic opportunities, than with trying to appear as "nice guys" to those who believe that it is the government's job to provide for every need and want of its citizens.

When I was a kid in college, I remember a song by a group called "Alvin Lee and Ten Years After". The song was titled "I Want To Change The World". One of the lyrics of that song sticks in my mind. It was, "Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more." When I was 20 years old, that sounded pretty cool. Then again, I was in school, had no job, no responsibilities and was living off my parents. Now, after working in a very competitive environment for nearly 45 years, routinely working 60 hour weeks and only now earning a higher than average income, I am considered "rich" and those lyrics don't sound so cool anymore. Yes, you can tax the rich to feed the poor, but when there are no rich, we'll all be poor.