Democrats: Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste

• February 26, 2009

Weeks ago the Congressional Budget Office predicted that, left to its own devices, our economy would likely recover on its own by the end of the year. But that hasn’t stopped liberals from using the economic downturn to massive government power grabs and hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending.
I’ve argued repeatedly that democrats are using the politics of fear, in this instance uncertainty about the economy, to ram-rod their their spending and policies. But I never expected one of the Democrats, Obama’s chief of staff no less, to come right out and admit that.

And we should all know by now that this latest and biggest-ever Washington fiscal binge isn’t about saving the economy. The White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, let the cat out of the bag when he said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste — and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn’t think you could do before.”
In that vein, congressional Democrats are using the financial crisis to spend hundreds of billions in taxpayer money they didn’t think they could spend before.

The Democrats aren’t concerned about the economy. The “stimulus” isn’t a fix for the economy. The Democrats are concerned about consolidating the government’s power over we citizens, to better their ability to promote their liberal agenda, and the “stimulus” bill (and a lot of the other legislation that will be coming out of Congress in the coming weeks and months and years) is just a means to that end.

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Biden said it as plain as an elected democrat will ever say it.

“Opportunity presents itself in the middle of a crisis,” Biden said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He added: “You cannot gain control of our budget deficits without gaining control of health-care spending. You cannot gain control over our economy without gaining control of our energy policy. And you cannot grow this country without an education policy.”

There you have it. Democrats wan’t control over the economy so they can control pretty much every aspect of it.
Lioncourt

Is 2010 the “end of the year”? And is losing 2.2% this year and gaining 1.5% next year a recovery?

Come on Rob, stop getting your facts from other blogs and read the report. If facts are facts than find some. Quote the damn report.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

Yes they are exploiting the crisis and rightly so. Democrats are just building up to a huge payback for the years of conservative arrogance.

Not only will they cram as much socialism down republican throats as they can, they’re going to use this opportunity to make deep, permanent changes in the country that will last GENERATIONS, just like Roosevelt did.

The re-regulation of the financial markets is only the beginning. Just wait.
sayanything-4625

Hey Lioncourt, that is the report! The part that say we will begin to recover in the second half of 2009. Can you read? By the way, my name is Greg and I linked to the actual CBO report so you can read it for yourself.
http://www.ski-blog.com/ sayanything-24

He cited the WAPO article that cited the CBO report.

Read the links.
docdave

Democrats wan’t control over the economy so they can control pretty much every aspect of it.

How do you spell T O T A L I T A R I A N I S M. If there ever was a need for a revolution it is now.
deadrody

Hey DINO, could to know you are at least honest about trying to ruin this country. But you and your fellow travelers better get busy, the party is over in November 2010.
Mickey

On that basis, CBO anticipates that real GDP will drop by 2.2 percent in calendar year 2009, a steep decline. CBO expects the economy to begin a slow recovery in the second half of 2009 and to grow by a modest 1.5 percent in 2010 (see Table 1).

We had an average of 3.5% GDP for 7 out 0f 8 years under Bush. A longer growth period than under Clinton.
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

It’s almost “Pitch Forks and Torches” time………

SCUM! EVERY LAST ONE!
sayanything-4625

NO IT DIDN”T. Are you stupid or just can’t read.

Please cite the CBO report where it says that, not just cite yourself.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9957/01-07-Outlook.pdf

I can read and do research, is this good enough Lioncourt? Google CBO and you can have all this at your fingertips also!

In preparing its economic forecast, CBO assumes that
current laws and policies governing federal spending and
taxes do not change. This forecast, therefore, does not
include the effects of a possible fiscal stimulus package. On that basis, CBO anticipates that real GDP will drop by 2.2 percent in calendar year 2009, a steep decline. CBO expects the economy to begin a slow recovery in the second half of 2009 and to grow by a modest 1.5 percent in 2010 (see Table 1).
Buzz

CBO said there is no crowding out in the short term, so the plan would succeed in boosting growth in 2009 and 2010.

The agency projected the Senate bill would produce between 1.4 percent and 4.1 percent higher growth in 2009 than if there was no action. For 2010, the plan would boost growth by 1.2 percent to 3.6 percent.

CBO did project the bill would create jobs, though by 2011 the effects would be minuscule.

It says not a word to the affect that the economy would fix its self by the end of the year. Every month for the past 6 months there has been an ever increasing amount of layoffs. Over 600,000 last month. And you would have us believe that it would just “fix its self” by the end of the year? Dude what do you take us for?
Lioncourt

Weeks ago the Congressional Budget Office predicted that, left to its own devices, our economy would likely recover on its own by the end of the year.

NO IT DIDN”T. Are you stupid or just can’t read.

Please cite the CBO report where it says that, not just cite yourself.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

NO IT DIDN”T. Are you stupid or just can’t read.

Actually, I’m smarter than you are and can read just fine.

The CBO report is apparently inconvenient for your faith in your messiah, but that’s not my fault. Facts are facts.
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