Billions of your tax dollars in possible subsidies for ACORN? $50 million for the National Endowment of the Arts? Billions of dollars more for other liberal pet projects?

     What exactly are our elected leaders doing? On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to pass the so-called "Obama stimulus bill."

     But the only thing the bill will stimulate is BIG GOVERNMENT. It does very little to accomplish its stated purpose, which is to create jobs and stimulate the struggling economy.

     Congressman Mike Pence said it best:

"[The] bill won't stimulate anything but more government and more debt. The slow and wasteful spending in the House Democrat bill is a disservice to millions of Americans who want to see this Congress take immediate action to get this economy moving again."

     And what exactly is in this so-called stimulus bill?

          $1.1 billion for Amtrak;

          $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts;

          $400 million for NASA to conduct climate change research;

          $300 million for Americorps;

          $1 billion for the Census;

          $400 million for localities to buy “green” buses;

          $650 million for the Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program;

          $600 million for the acquisition of “green” cars;

          $7.7 billion for the Federal Buildings Fund;

     The list goes on… ALL of it funding by your hard-earned tax dollars.

     Here’s what Senator David Vitter (R-LA) had to say about the bill:

"It's just a long list of spending items. Not a real economic stimulus job creation bill. It's line after line after line of favorite liberal spending programs, and it amounts to a big government bill - not a job creation bill."

     As Congressman Pence put it:

“What does $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, $200 million to plant sod on the National Mall, $400 million for climate change research, and $200 million for contraception have to do with creating jobs?"

     The answer is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

     But here’s the kicker…

     According to FOX News:

"Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid from the economic stimulus proposal… " [Emphasis Mine]

     Senator Vitter went so far as to say that the $4.19 billion that this so-called "stimulus bill" allocates to "neighborhood stabilization programs" could be viewed as a "payoff" to ACORN (or organizations similar to ACORN).

     The good news is there is hope to defeat this monstrosity of a bill. Yes, the House passed it, but not without bipartisan opposition. And, every Republican member in the House voted against it.

     That means our message is being heard. But as the Senate considers its version of this disastrous bill, we must redouble our efforts.

     In fact, according to US News and World Report, the Senate version of this $825 billion House spending bill is already up to $887 billion and it could go even higher once it reaches the floor of the Senate.

     There is not a moment to lose. We must demand that conservatives in the Senate stand firm and stop this massive liberal boondoggle!

     They say that Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but that's a rather populist misstatement of the legend.

     In actuality, Robin Hood liberated the ill-gotten gains that the government took from the common people through oppressive over-taxation and gave it back to the people.

     Today, Obama, Reid and Pelosi are claiming that an economic catastrophe will occur unless the people fork over $825 billion dollars (some are saying the figure will easily balloon past the $887 billion presently in the Senate version and go as high as $1.2 TRILLION) for income redistribution and "infrastructure!"

     We've been down that road before!

     George Will, in a recent column titled "Same Old New Deal?" gives voice to something many Americans knew long ago but dared not utter.

     Namely, that it is possible that the policies of Hoover and then Roosevelt and what later became known as The New Deal turned a short-term recession into the Great Depression which lasted more than a decade!

     Will states:

"The assumption is that the New Deal vanquished the Depression. Intelligent, informed people differ about why the Depression lasted so long. But people whose recipe for recovery today is another New Deal should remember that America's biggest industrial collapse occurred in 1937, eight years after the 1929 stock market crash and nearly five years into the New Deal. In 1939, after a decade of frantic federal spending - President Herbert Hoover increased it more than 50 percent between 1929 and the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt - unemployment was 17.2 percent."

    Will adds:

"In a 2004 paper, Harold L. Cole of UCLA and Lee E. Ohanian of UCLA and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis argued that the Depression would have ended in 1936, rather than in 1943, were it not for policies that magnified the power of labor and encouraged the cartelization of industries."

     Does any of this sound familiar?

     Political commentator and Radio Host Glenn Beck recently asked this question:

"So, the question is, when will America finally say, 'You know, I think I’ve learned my lesson. Enough is enough'?"

    To answer that question: RIGHT NOW!

     Make no mistake; no amount of YOUR money will EVER be ENOUGH to satisfy the voracious appetite of liberals in Congress.

     That's why we MUST take action! If we don't STOP them NOW, they'll keep coming back for more... and more... and more!

Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized faxes to Barack Obama and the Republican Members of the United States Senate!

Tell them to put a HALT to the so-called Obama stimulus bill now! Tell them that decent people are suffering financially and an economic downturn IS NOT an excuse to give payoffs and handouts to causes favored by liberal elected officials.

Moreover, tell them you know the lessons of history and that the American people will NOT tolerate policies that will turn the current recession into a decade-long depression simply to advance the agenda of liberals in our government. It’s time to pass real stimulus for the American people by letting them keep more of their hard-earned money. Tell them the time has come for government to get out of the way!

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What Is The Solution?

     There is an alternative to the Obama-Pelosi-Reid sham of a stimulus bill!

     You probably didn't read about it on the front page of the fair and balanced New York Times or hear about it during Katie Couric’s nightly newscast, but the Republican Study Committee (RSC), a group of more than 100 conservative Members of Congress, just introduced the Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009.

     Rather than attempting to grow government, this RSC sponsored legislation attempts to remove government from the equation and give the free market a much needed boost.

     Some of the provisions of the RSC legislation include:

          A 5% across the board reduction in individual income taxes.

          Increasing the Child Tax Credit from $1,000 to $5,000 per year.

          Making permanent the 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends.

          Repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax on individuals.

          Making all withdrawals from IRAs tax- and penalty-free during 2009.

          Increasing tax deductions for student loans and other education expenses.

     One thing is certain. Socialism only works when the goal is increasing the power of government.

     America doesn't need that! Our children don't need that! Our grandchildren don't need that!

     Let's do something that can actually shorten this recession, get people back to work and stop our economic free-fall.

     Tell our elected officials to stop trying to turn the United States into a socialist country and support the Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009!

Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized faxes to Barack Obama and the Republican Members of the United States Senate!

Tell them to put a HALT to the so-called Obama stimulus bill now! Tell them that decent people are suffering financially and an economic downturn IS NOT an excuse to give payoffs and handouts to causes favored by liberal elected officials.

Moreover, tell them you know the lessons of history and that the American people will NOT tolerate policies that will turn the current recession into a decade-long depression simply to advance the agenda of liberals in our government. It’s time to pass real stimulus for the American people by letting them keep more of their hard-earned money. Tell them the time has come for government to get out of the way!

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Yours In Freedom,

Jeff Mazzella
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