Sideshow Procedures in the Next Stimulus Bill

Open e-mail to Rep. Neugebauer:

Randy,

You and I heard the President's speech last night. I would like to make a few comments to put it into perspective.

He wants $500 billion for another stimulus program, which he does not want to call "stimulus". He specified a number of items on which this $500 billion would be spent, and with which we mostly have no argument. Essentially. It sounds good.

The "catch" lies in his repeated statement that he wants the bill passed now, now, now. Notice that the "now" is before he explains where he is going to obtain the $500 billion. He promises that will come up in two weeks, after you pass the bill.

Why would he do this? The answer is in a deceptive sales approach. In the first part you only talk about the icing on the cake. After you have bought the cake, you find out that the base is manure.

Pres. Obama is a tremendous speaker. He has wonderful experience from his early work in community organizing. He is so good that the average person will continue to believe him, even though he has time and again shown that his statements are not to be depended upon. We will not say that he's a liar, but we sure can say that he is a super rationalizer.

When I was a boy, we had Side Shows at Coney Island. One that I remember was a bull with human skin. The barker on the outside extolled the virtues of this wonderful animal and the difficulty they had in obtaining it. If you were dumb enough to even once pay your quarter to get to the inside, you found that it was a bull from which they had shaved all the hair.

Are you going to pay your "quarter" again to see in two weeks what wonderful things Pres. Obama has on the inside?

They say that a sucker is born every minute, which means that after some minutes there must be many suckers. I hope the suckers do not comprise the majority of our Congress.