You have no idea how much that headline got my hopes up. Ah well, if she hates America that much, she is free to leave.
On Feb 11, 9:20�pm, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > *Goodbye, America! It Was Fun While It Lasted* by Ann Coulter > Updated 02/11/2009 ET > > http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=30674 > > �It's bad enough when illiterate jurors issue damages awards in the billions > of dollars because they don't grasp the difference between a million and a > billion. Now it turns out the Democrats don't know the difference between a > million and a trillion. > > Why not make the "stimulus bill" a kazillion dollars? > > All Americans who work for a living, or who plan to work for a living > sometime in the next century, are about to be stuck with a trillion-dollar > bill to fund yet more oppressive government bureaucracies. Or as I call it, > a trillion dollars and change. > > The stimulus bill isn't as bad as we had expected -- it's much worse. > Instead of merely creating useless, make-work jobs digging ditches -- or > "shovel-ready," in the Democrats' felicitous phrase -- the "stimulus" bill > will create an endless army of government bureaucrats aggressively > intervening in our lives. Instead of digging ditches, American taxpayers > will be digging our own graves. > > There are hundreds of examples in the 800-page "stimulus" bill, but here are > just two. > > First, the welfare bureaucrats are coming back. > > For half a century, the welfare establishment had the bright idea to pay > women to have children out of wedlock. Following the iron laws of economics > -- subsidize something, you get more of it; tax it, you get less of it -- > the number of children being born out of wedlock skyrocketed. > > The 1996 Welfare Reform bill marked the first time any government > entitlement had ever been rolled back. Despite liberal howling and > foot-stomping, not subsidizing illegitimacy led, like night into day, to > less illegitimacy. > > Welfare recipients got jobs, as the hard-core unemployables were coaxed away > from their TV sets and into the workforce. For the first time in decades, > the ever-increasing illegitimacy rate stopped spiraling upward. > > As proof that that welfare reform was a smashing success, a few years later, > Bill Clinton started claiming full credit for the bill. > > Well, that's over. The stimulus bill goes a long way toward repealing the > work requirement of the 1996 Republican Welfare Reform bill and rewards > states that increase their welfare caseloads by paying unwed mothers to sit > home doing nothing. > > Second, bureaucrats at Health and Human Services will electronically collect > every citizen's complete medical records and determine appropriate medical > care. > > Judging by the care that the State Department took with private visa records > last year, that the Ohio government took with Joe the Plumber's government > records, that the Pentagon took with Linda Tripp's employment records in > 1998, and that the FBI took with thousands of top secret "raw" background > files in President Clinton's first term, the bright side is: We'll finally > be able to find out if Bill Clinton has syphilis -- all thanks to the > stimulus bill! > > HHS bureaucrats will soon be empowered to overrule your doctor. Doctors who > don't comply with the government's treatment protocols will be fined. That's > right: Instead of your treatment being determined by your doctor, it will be > settled on by some narcoleptic half-wit in Washington who couldn't get a job > in the private sector. > > And a brand-new set of bureaucrats in the newly created office of "National > Coordinator of Health Information Technology" will be empowered to cut off > treatments that merely prolong life. Sorry, Mom and Pop, Big Brother said > it's time to go. > > At every other workplace in the nation -- even Wal-Mart! -- workers are > being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies > ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department > of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth > functioning of the department. > > With the stimulus bill, liberals plan to move unfirable government workers > into every activity in America, where they will superintend all aspects of > our lives. > > Also, thanks to the stimulus bill, the private sector will gradually shrivel > and die. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost of servicing > the bill's nearly trillion-dollar debt will shrink the economy within a > decade. > > Robert Kennedy famously said: "There are those who look at things the way > they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why > not?'" > > The new liberal version is: *There are those who look at things and ask, > "Why on earth should the government be paying for that?" I dream of things > that never were funded by the government and ask, "Why not?"* > > �ann_al.jpg > 47KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
