Stimulating at a recession near you…

As a tax professional I am constantly being questioned by many of my colleagues, peers, and friends concerning this stimulus package everyone keeps talking about.  As many may already know, the bill was made law this past week  and a lot of people have no clue what it does or how it affects us.  Fear not, I have the perfect explanation, courtesy of an email my dad sent me earlier today.

Shortly after class, an economics student approaches his economics professor and says, “I don’t understand this stimulus bill. Can you explain it to me?”

The professor replied, “I don’t have any time to explain it at my office, but if you come over to my house on Saturday and help me with my weekend project, I’ll be glad to explain it to you.” The student agreed.

At the agreed-upon time, the student showed up at the professor’s house. The professor stated that the weekend project involved his backyard pool.

They both went out back to the pool, and the professor handed the student a bucket. Demonstrating with his own bucket, the professor said, “First, go over to the deep end, and fill your bucket with as much water as you can.” The student did as he was instructed.

The professor then continued, “Follow me over to the shallow end, and then dump all the water from your bucket into it.” The student was naturally confused, but did as he was told.

The professor then explained they were going to do this many more times, and began walking back to the deep end of the pool.

The confused student asked, “Excuse me, but why are we doing this?” The professor matter-of-factly stated that he was trying to make the shallow end much deeper.

The student didn’t think the economics professor was serious, but figured that he would find out the real story soon enough.

However, after the 6th trip between the shallow end and the deep end, the student began to become worried that his economics professor had gone mad. The student finally replied, “All we’re doing is wasting valuable time and effort on unproductive pursuits. Even worse, when this process is all over, everything will be at the same level it was before, so all you’ll really have accomplished is the destruction of what could have been truly productive action!”

The professor put down his bucket and replied with a smile, “Congratulations. You now understand the stimulus bill.”

So as you can see from the explanation it makes no sense.  It is like a picture I once saw of Darth Vader using a water purifier to make sea water drinkable, it makes no sense…Darth Vader can’t drink water, and you cant pay debt by being in more debt…sorry all who read this previously, when I pasted the story, it was a bit mixed…

Thank God!

“Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office Thursday without a single lawmaker coming to his defense, brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline.” – Yahoo

I think the title says it all.

One Nation Under No One

In my usual mianderings online, I came across an interesting article on Yahoo!.  It really is funny the things some people try to pull off.  Here is the first paragraph from the article:

“WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama wants to conclude his inaugural oath with the words “so help me God,” but a group of atheists is asking a federal judge to stop him.

California atheist Michael Newdow sued Chief Justice John Roberts in federal court for an injunction barring the use of those words in the inaugural oath.

Newdow and other atheists and agnostics also want to stop the use of prayers during the inaugural celebration.”

Hmmmmm, wait a second, I got it, ok everyone line up in a single file and get all our money, c’mon, all of it, and let’s shred it all.  Let’s go ahead and print new money, and while we are at it, let’s make new coins, rewrite every U.S. document, throw out about a couple hundred years of history, and start from scratch.  It might even be a good idea to burn all bibles too, because well we all remember what happened to Hitler  the last guy that did that.

Seriously, not to sound like a preacher sitting on his soap box preaching things down your throats, but are these people serious?  I’m doing my best to remain objective in this post, however, am finding it extremely difficult to do so seeing as some people will go to far lengths just to declare themselves free of all responsibility to anyone, especially a supreme being.  God forbid I go against the school board and try to ram the whole Creation thing down their throats, I am sure they would love that.

That’s what this whole thing is about.  Man’s innate nature to want to be free and be able to report to no one.  To be accountable to no one and to be able to live life as man sees fit, and seeing as man has such a good track record, I think it would be a great idea, nevertheless, I digress.

These people think it’s a great idea to go on a national and federal scale to go on and defy our fore fathers and all that this country was established on.  If my history serves me right, the original founders of this country left their respective countries where choice was granted to no one to come and create what we now call the free world.  Basing most of our foundations on the book that guy went and burned, these men created what we now know as the United States of America…one nation under GOD.

Granted anyone can see these types of things coming and I would assume it’s only going to get worse as the years progress, after all it is that same science that says all things go from order to chaos, which would completely defy the “fact” of evolution, but hey what do I know, I am just a sniveling little Christian boy, who thinks we ought to stay true to our roots and continue having God in the foundations of our country seemed to work well for Washington and his guys, might work the same for us, but then again, that would be using history to determine trends and predict cycles, and seeing as we are in this new era of “change” we shouldn’t do that.

I hope and pray that Christians around the world might do two things with this lawsuit.  1.) Be thankful for our persecution, after all it is a great honor and 2.) Just laugh it up, we will all have front row seats!  

Oh George, you put it so well:

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” ~ George Washington

And I am a big advocate of freedom of religion by the way.  I have no problem with what or who you believe in, whether it be someone, something, or nothing, it’s still faith and you still believe in something.  I just don’t see how what once was the center of our government, our country, and our reason for existence, is now something which we strive so fervently to eliminate.  God be with Obama, if he even believes in you…