A Trojan Horse
Both the Senate and House stimulus bills are Trojan horses that deliberately exploit anxiety about the current recession to conceal their destruction of the foundation of welfare reform and a massive expansion of the welfare system. Since its enactment in the mid-1990s, such reform has proven to be a very successful policy that dramatically reduced welfare dependency and child poverty. The fact that the stimulus proponents seek to conceal the bill's massive permanent changes in welfare is a clear indication that they understand how unpopular these changes would be if the public became aware of them. Far from an exercise in "unprecedented transparency"--as President Obama claims--the stimulus bills are an example of unprecedented deception.
Robert Rector is Senior Research Fellow in the Domestic Policy Studies Department and Katherine Bradley is a Research Fellow in the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, at The Heritage Foundation.
An editorial in the National Review Online echoes these concerns (go here to read).
May as well start documenting all these shenanagins in this blog, because things are moving quickly behind the smokescreen that is Barack Obama. It's hard to argue with deceptive people, especially really good deceivers who have mastered the art of obfuscation. Obama is especially clever at saying things one way one day, then changing them the next and acting surprised when challenged or questioned about the contradiction. Sometimes he even admits that in saying things, he didn't really mean what he said. Recall he did this after he was elected and he suddenly rediscovered Hillary Clinton's virtues after ripping her to shreds during the campaign, pointing out that criticism of her was just campaign "rhetoric," you know. Ah yes, rhetoric...Four years from now will we remember his propensity to deceive for the purpose of achieving his objectives?
No comments:
Post a Comment