Unstimulated : Public Support Falls Further - Obama Ratchets Up His Fear-Mongering and Doom-Saying

Last Friday I laid out why I believe Obama and the Democrats are so anxious to jam their massive Economic Patriot Act of 2009 (e.g. "the STIMULUS" *shiver/quake*) down the country's throat (and even that of their own Congressional caucus).

They know the more the public becomes aware of this bloated outrage and its sickening details, the more support it loses.

The truth is a type of disinfectant that works better and better the wider it is spread.

So we now see, not five days later, another 5 point drop in support and a similar gain in opposition, with more Americans now opposed to the fat-assed federal REPO (REid-Pelosi-Obama) plan than in favor of it.

Now barely 1 out of 3 Americans supports the STIMULUS *quiver*, according to the latest Rasmussen numbers.

Support for Stimulus Package Falls to 37%

Support for the economic recovery plan working its way through Congress has fallen again this week.

For the first time, a plurality of voters nationwide oppose the $800-billion-plus plan.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 37% favor the legislation, 43% are opposed, and 20% are not sure.

Two weeks ago, 45% supported the plan. Last week, 42% supported it. Opposition has grown from 34% two weeks ago to 39% last week and 43% today.

So why am I not surprised that President Obama has launched a populist PR offensive on CEO pay? The issue is a literal drop in the bucket in the total scheme of the federal government's disgustingly-profligate quasi-nationalization of financial institutions, e.g. The BAILOUT.

Nice distraction, huh?

Why am I not surprised Obama has ratcheted up his fear-mongering rhetoric from rough road ahead to trouble to disaster to now outright catastrophe if we don't drop a trillion as fast as the Fed can print the money?

Obama : Inaction on Stimulus Could Create 'Catastrophe'
WASHINGTON -- Republicans tried to push back against the ballooning size of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan Wednesday, even as he warned that the financial crisis will turn into "a catastrophe" if the bill isn't passed quickly.

Mr. Obama summoned centrist senators to the White House Wednesday afternoon to discuss a plan to cut more than $50 billion in spending from the measure, which breached the $900 billion barrier in the Senate on Tuesday and appears headed higher....
Read the rest here.

Scaring the American people to ram through unprecedented spending and national statist economic programming, all in service to a narrow ulterior political agenda.

Sounds like the Bush playbook to me.

Won't get fooled again...

Comment Rescue (?) and child-related gun violence in Delaware

In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw

The Obligatory Libertarian Tax Day Post

The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?

New Warfare: I started my posts with a discussion.....

.....on Unrestricted warfare . The US Air force Institute for National Security Studies have developed a reasonable systems approach to deter non-state violent actors who they label as NSVA's. It is an exceptionally important report if we want to deter violent extremism and other potential violent actors that could threaten this nation and its security. It is THE report our political officials should be listening to to shape policy so that we do not become excessive in using force against those who do not agree with policy and dispute it with reason and normal non-violent civil disobedience. This report, should be carefully read by everyone really concerned with protecting civil liberties while deterring violent terrorism and I recommend if you are a professional you send your recommendations via e-mail at the link above so that either 1.) additional safeguards to civil liberties are included, or 2.) additional viable strategies can be used. Finally, one can only hope that politici

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