He wants to make sure that Barack Obama knows what the real score in Washington is … Look, you may be president, but you don't mess with our pork-barrel projects. Yeah. Harry has warned the White House to "tread lightly on earmarks." If Obama tries to put any pressure on Congress to cut back on earmarks, Harry says that this will be met with strong opposition.
Harry Reid and his congressional stooges aren't there represent you. They're in this for the power. Any actual representation of the people is an error. They know that the average American will hear that the newest dog park around the corner was brought to you by Harry Reid (and countless taxpayers), and they will see him as having done good for the community. Never mind any sense of fiscal constraint or limited government.
And then, you are going to love this line. When it comes to all of this government spending, Harry Reid actually said that the "government is the only body that has any money" to spend to prop up the sagging economy.
Do you hear that, folks? Only government! Not you, the taxpayers. Not your employer or the small businesses in your community or the entrepreneurs. Government is the only thing that can save us.
Amazing. Depressing too.
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What is going through Reid's head? He's a wonderful person who only wants the best for the American people. And I have oceanfront property in Kansas for you (cheap - just email me for more information) if you believe that.
Reid is a flaming liberal who wants to keep the poor under the thumb of the Democratic Party. You promise them something big, get their votes, give a little something- just enough to make them want more, throw in scare tactics (the sky is falling! If we don't do this now the world will come to an end!), and promise more. And no, this isn't limited to just the Democrats and flaming liberals. The Republicans have been guilty of their own brand of scare tactics and for sitting back and not slapping some of these Henny Penny's into next week.
Too many people have an entitlement mindset (I deserve this! Everybody should have the same stuff as everybody else! Everybody deserves (insert item here) just because. Work for (insert item here)? You've got to be kidding! I shouldn't have to work!) and it's because of years of entitlement programs telling people they should have the same as others and not have to work for it.
Look. I'm not against helping people out. Far from it. America was once seen as the one place where anyone could be anything they want. Now, it's a place where Washington Cretins want to think for you, tell you what you want, pat you on the head and say, "don't you worry your pretty little head. Daddy will take care of it."
You know, I've been laughing about looking for a Sugar Daddy, but I'm not stupid and I won't be patronized. And that is what our Washington Cretins are doing. Patronizing us - the people who are where they are because many of us (me included at time) bought into their rhetoric and voted for them.
They only thing they care about is keeping their jobs. And if it means lying to the public, making promises they know they can't or won't keep, using scare tactics, it's not below them. And it crosses party affiliation.
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