“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

“[A] wise and frugal government… shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor, May 28, 1816

I open up with several quotes from Thomas Jefferson.  The more that I read about our founding fathers, the greater appreciation I have for them.  When they started our country, they did so after a great deal of thought and consideration.  They were fully aware of the dangers that a big government could bring.  They warned us.  (If only our schools would do their job, and teach our children about the shear brilliance that created our country)

I believe that our government is mortgaging our future and our children’s future for a “quick fix” that will not even work.  I believe that they are taking advantage of our fear.

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”  Rahm Emanuel

That does seem to be the theme these days.  The government is frothing at the bit over this crisis.  It sees scared people and will take advantage of them.

“Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.” John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

It is very difficult to find a breakdown of the proposed “Stimulus Package”.  It is suspiciously difficult to track down where they want to waste our hard earned tax payer dollars.  But, you can read the package, if you have time to read over 300 pages of legalese. 

If you don’t have that much time, Glenn Beck has a general breakdown of the package.

Today, Michelle Malkin’s lead story discusses the bill – aptly retitled by her as the Generational Theft Act of 2009.  Please click on the links that are provided below, they are eye opening.

The ruckus over Nancy Pelosi’s contraception funding (stripped Tuesday night by the House Rules committee along with the $200 million to refurbish the National Mall) is the tip of the iceberg. Despite President Obama’s vow to prevent earmarks from bogging down the bill, the package is stuffed with goodies for every special interest group from left-wing fraudsters ACORN and other subprime shakedown activists ($4 billion for “neighborhood stabilization”) to Hollywood ($246 million in new targeted tax breaks) to universal health care promotion ($600 million) to dubious “green job” projects ($24 billion). More fundamentally, there is no there there.

On Monday night, the Congressional Budget Office sent out a full analysis of the House stimulus bill — elaborating on the partial number-crunching that were disseminated last week by Republican Hill sources. The new report elaborates on what the first one illuminated: the vaunted infrastructure spending will take years and years and years to kick in. Just 7 percent of the total $800 billion-plus stimulus funding would enter the economy by the end of this year.

Is anyone actually surprised that ACORN will be getting money?  After all, they did so much to help Obama win, and to the victor goes the spoils.

To put the costs in perspective, Malkin has provided the following graph.

Can anyone afford the bailout?

UPDATE:  Michelle Malkin has just added some more items to her site.

Now includes (in part)

P. 60: $400 million for HIV and chlamydia testing.

P. 45: “$25,000,000 is for recreation maintenance, especially for rehabilitation of off-road vehicle routes, and $20,000,000 is for trail maintenance and restoration.” ATV owners, rejoice.

Page 23: $200 million for Dep. of Defense to acquire alternative energy vehicles.

Page 32: $1.5 billion (with a “B”) for a “carbon-capturing contest”

Tom Jones notes another $200 million for DoD plug-in car stations and crunches the numbers: 53,526 plug-in cars = >$3700/car.

And now on Drudge:

$335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL
Wed Jan 28 2009 09:58:30 ET
Democrats may have eliminated provisions on birth control and sod for the National Mall in the “job stimulus” — but buried on page 147 of the bill is stimulation for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases!
The House Democrats’ bill includes $335 million for sexually transmitted disease education and prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
In the past, the CDC has used STD education funding for programs that many Members of Congress find objectionable and arguably unrelated to a mission of economic stimulus [such as funding events called 'Booty Call' and 'Great Sex' put on by an organization that received $698,000 in government funds.]
“Whether this funding has merit is not the question; the point is it has no business in an economic plan supposedly focused on job creation,” says a stimulated Hill source.
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Who said that the government didn’t have a sense of humor?

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