Representative Phil Gingrey (GA-11) might, maybe, just maybe is listening to the folks back home.

This weekend I attended an event with the Cobb County Republican Party and Mr Gingrey was in attendance. One of the main topics of discussion among those who where present, and the turnout was good for a foggy Saturday, was all of the unrestrained federal spending in the form of bailouts.

Apparently Mr Gingrey must have gotten the message. At the meeting I asked him about Rep Gomer's (R-TX) proposal to provide a 2 month moratorium on paying federal taxes, and he replied honestly that while it has support there is no way the Democrat controlled congress would ever allow it to come up for a vote. Over on the Politico website there is a report today where Mr Gingrey is questioning some of the supposed tax cuts or credits that is included in the latest stimulus/bailout package being proposed by the Obama camp.

"Some reports put the tax cut at 40% of the overall package -- leaving 60% to come from increased federal spending," said Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.). "After the latest round of bailouts, many Members of Congress, as well as most Americans, have concerns about the federal government spending hundreds of billions that it doesn't have."

 

Barack Obama has said he will post the Democrats plan for seizing more of your money while allowing the government to take over even more private industries on the web for everybody to allow us to review it. He is gambling on the same malaise that has afflicted this country for a couple of decades to continue. That malaise is the apathy of the American people towards anything government related. So while the populace remains apathetic and detached the politicians continue to intrude more and more into our private lives and exert control over every aspect of lives from what products are carried in your local grocery store to warning labels on your morning cup of coffee.

I will have to leave it up to the financial analysts, of which no two seem to agree on the same strategy either, to analyse the proposal, but one thing I know from my experience living on the lower end of economic food chain is this, government spending is not going to fix the problem. If the feds weren't smart enough to figure out that filling some sort of Affirmative Action plan in regards to mortgages was a bad idea then I don't expect them to be able to figure out creating a bunch of make work projects in some vain attempt to resuciate the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt is also a bad idea.

One other point to ponder. Most legislatures are lawyers, except with the now notable exception of one real comedian, and the joke is on us played on us by the citizens of Minnesota. Lawyers have accountants handle their money. Why are we allowing the lawyers to handle our money? Granted on the first round of bailout they did listen to the so called financial gurus and as we can now see that advice wasn't so good. Why do we want to continue listening to them?

I am no rocket scientist but I only have to hit my hand with a hammer once to know that I don't want to do that again and in the future I will avoid doing that. Unfortunately that sort of common sense thinking seems to be missing inside the Washington DC beltway. Their logic seems to run towards since I didn't break any bones the first time I hit my hand with the hammer let me swing harder.

Barack Obama has said he will post the Democrats plan for seizing more of your money while allowing the government to take over even more private industries on the web for everybody to allow us to review it. He is gambling on the same malaise that has afflicted this country for a couple of decades to continue. That malaise is the apathy of the American people towards anything government related. So while the populace remains apathetic and detached the politicians continue to intrude more and more into our private lives and exert control over every aspect of lives from what products are carried in your local grocery store to warning labels on your morning cup of coffee.

I will have to leave it up to the financial analysts, of which no two seem to agree on the same strategy either, to analyse the proposal, but one thing I know from my experience living on the lower end of economic food chain is this, government spending is not going to fix the problem. If the feds weren't smart enough to figure out that filling some sort of Affirmative Action plan in regards to mortgages was a bad idea then I don't expect them to be able to figure out creating a bunch of make work projects in some vain attempt to resuciate the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt is also a bad idea.

One other point to ponder. Most legislatures are lawyers, except with the now notable exception of one real comedian, and the joke is on us played on us by the citizens of Minnesota. Lawyers have accountants handle their money. Why are we allowing the lawyers to handle our money? Granted on the first round of bailout they did listen to the so called financial gurus and as we can now see that advice wasn't so good. Why do we want to continue listening to them?

I am no rocket scientist but I only have to hit my hand with a hammer once to know that I don't want to do that again and in the future I will avoid doing that. Unfortunately that sort of common sense thinking seems to be missing inside the Washington DC beltway. Their logic seems to run towards since I didn't break any bones the first time I hit my hand with the hammer let me swing harder.