Are We Sufficiently Stimulated Yet?

Have you or anyone you know been rescued, bailed out or otherwise stimulated by the federal government in recent months? Has the economic stimulus plan turned even one shovelful of dirt in our community? Can you name a single jobless person who has found gainful employment as a result of the government's efforts to legislate our economic recovery?

Maybe I don't get out enough, but I don't see it. I see politicians paying off their constituents in a huge power binge, spending trillions they don't have by passing legislation they haven't read. It's the most disgraceful display of government recklessness in American history.

According to The Brunswick News on March 18, 2009, "Decorative lighting for the Sidney Lanier Bridge is the only Glynn County project eligible for funding under the federal stimulus package." Is this the hope and change we've been waiting for ... lights on a bridge that already has lights? I thought we were supposed to reduce global warming, not screw in more light bulbs. While we're at it, let's wrap the lighthouse in Christmas lights and leave them up year 'round for everyone to admire!

Future Stimulus Project?

Is it me, or does all this seem like a bad episode of the Twilight Zone? A place where the President of the United States can actually fire the President of General Motors. Where people are forced out of the world's finest health care system and into a "better" program run by the same people who can't fix Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. A nation that lines the pockets of its enemies with hundreds of billions in oil revenue while leaving its own oil firmly in the ground. God forbid we should inconvenience a few caribou in the interest of national security!

Now we hear about a second stimulus plan ... I suppose because the first one is working so well. How long will it take the hope and changers to regulate the real estate business? Oh, I forgot. They're already in it up to their ears with Fannie and Freddie and the whole mortgage bailout. Touched off by their political predecessors who believed everyone should have a home whether they could afford one or not, government meddling has now rocked every segment of our economy.

Soon our opportunistic leaders will declare the only way out is through more regulation. Many believe the government will control the entire banking industry by year end. It's the crisis that keeps on giving. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," says Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Well, here's a quote from yours truly: If conservatives don't recapture momentum in the 2010 elections, we may never see a real estate recovery.

I fear we could be forever trapped in the Twilight Zone, a place where the government regulates every real estate transaction and decides who owns what property. We may soon see the day when prices, commissions and quotas are set by a real estate czar. They will use the concept of eminent domain in ways never before imagined.

Think about it. Talk about it. Vote conservative.