Emergency!

 

Rampart this is engine 51, on route from the US Senate.  At least that’s probably how NH Rep Carol Shea-Porter viewed it.   Days after once again committing to the idea of Pay-Go, she’s gone and begged Harry Reid to ignore it and pass another 10 billion in spending , as if he needs her encouragement to do so.  Carol’s letter to the Majority leader is, if nothing else persistent.  And given this desperate set of circumstances she’s certain that Pay-Go must be ignored—more implied than stated but then I just pointed out this week how that scenario works in a democrat congress.

 So just how important is this to our Congressional district One rep?  “Very” is an inadequate modifier to explain her desperation.  In a letter of a scant 243 words ‘Emergency’ appears five separate times.

“these benefits should be considered emergency spending.” 

“the expiration of unemployment benefits at the end of this month would, in fact, be an emergency”

“the loss of a job is an emergency”

“Allowing the clock to run out on these benefits while the "emergency" nature is discussed in the Senate”

“that the expiration of these extended benefits would create another unnecessary and avoidable emergency.”

 So what's her point exactly?  (emphasis mine)

We are also reminded of crucial benefits, critical programs, and a need for swift action.   Wow.  Sounds like a real crisis.

So Johnny Gage and Roy Desoto must have found their way to Jim Bunning and convinced him to stop asking for debate about where the money would come from—and to stop seeking some semblance of respectability from a democrat senate.  Doesn’t he know they never meant to stop spending?  Pay-Go is actually the name of the drive thru window they just attached to the side of the Capitol building.  Now Union hacks and favored constituents can just drive up and grab a big bag of taxpayer dollars for their “emergencies” without all the haggling about where the money will come from. I mean how stupid a question is that.  This is the government.   And everything is an emergency, so we Pay and they Go on spending. 

The money is just going to come out of the earnings of Taxpayers.  Even Carol Shea-Porter must suspect that by now.

The Sham of Pay-Go

Yet another façade has been erected by the liberals and its’ name is Pay-Go.  Pay-Go (or Pay as you go) was the Chimera of a congress past and has been adopted by congress present so that they can continue to screw America’s future.  It works like this.  Spending must be offset.  Emergency spending need not apply.  Everything is emergency spending and whatever is spent will be offset with new taxes.

That’s really all you need to know about liberals and Pay-Go.

So as Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes vote for more and more spending, and then more and more taxes , you’ll understand why they can continue to claim support for Pay-Go.  And jut to put it further into prospective, all the spending in the expansive budgets, the stimuli, the mini bail-outs like cash-for clunkers, the home buyers credits, 24 trillion weeks of unemployment benefits, and the big bailouts like TARP, they all fall into the category of ‘emergency spending.’  Health care and cap and trade do as well.  In fact, you will be hard pressed to find any spending perpetrated by a liberal that is not for an emergency.

So Pay as you Go as enacted is really “Spend as you Go,” another crock of ass backwardness from the liberal lexicon that should be relegated into the rhetorical dust bin with all the other re-defined liberal phrases like ‘equality,’  “rights,” “American Families,” “Choice,” “bi-partisanship,’ … aahh, you know the list.