Dashcle Stands in the way of economic recovery for political gain as Americans suffer
Feb 7 2002
Tom Daschle has decided that those of you who are out of work don't need jobs. Yes, he's decided the economy needs to stay in the anemic shape it's in, and you have to suffer, because high unemployment is his party's greatest chance of gaining power. These people are amazing. I don't like saying this, but two things are apparent to me. Not only are the Democrats in this election year desirous of slowing down the economy for their own electoral benefit, they're doing the same thing to the stock market. Those of us out of work see this happening, and they're outraged. A lifelong Democrat called my show on Wednesday to proclaim his frustration with Daschle - and his new GOP affiliation. At the end of the day Tuesday, when Daschle proclaimed the stimulus bill kaput, the stock market plunged. The wire services all reported Daschle's refusal to allow a vote on the package as the cause of the slump. And why is Daschle refusing to allow a vote, anyway? He must know it'll pass, mustn't he? He must know there are enough Democrats willing to vote for jobs and for the unemployed to pass the bill, and put the country ahead of partisanship, right? Why aren't we holding hearings on this scandal? Tom Daschle is doing to the stock market and the economy, exactly what Ken Lay is accused of doing to Enron stock holders - and Daschle's doing it to line his own political pockets. Can you imagine that hearing - the klieg lights shining, with Tom Daschle and the Democratic leadership sitting where they want Ken Lay to sit? The Daschle so-called stimulus package is not anything to write home about anyway. In fact, it's a "stimulus package" in name only. The Daschle stimulus package extends unemployment benefits for another 13 weeks, and basically expands the role of government. It doesn't do much for the private sector. But at least it was called a stimulus package, and the psychological effect of passing it would have had some positive value. What you label something matters, to a certain extent, with the market. All this socialism and communism sounds good to the uninformed, but it doesn't work. When these people make the claim that their way is the best for people, it's flat-out not true. The Democrats believe that it is the government that can best provide for the wants and needs of the American people. Their leaders are people like Tom Daschle and John F. Kerry and Dick Gephardt and Ted Kennedy. They're all hypocrites. Just look what they are doing under the guise of helping people. They're shutting down this economy! The Democrats want you to believe that Bush tried to harm the economy with Enron, but that's something we need to watch out for on Daschle's side. Daschle's the one who benefits from a bad economy. Bush doesn't. Tom Daschle wants us to give all our money to him, so he can give it back to us and we can say, "Oh, thank you, sir!" The Democrats say it's evil to give back that overpayment of taxes (namely the surplus) in our paychecks, but Daschle can spend it on us and that's fine. The Washington Times reports, "If Congress does not approve a [stimulus] bill, some lawmakers fear their colleagues will find other ways to spend some or all of that money. Mr. Daschle, for example, said the administration eliminated money from the budget to relocate families in Pierre, S.D., who live near a flood-prone dam." Daschle asked, "Now is that pork? I don't think so." Mr. Daschle, you want to know what pork is? Pork is when your wife, a highly paid lobbyist for a couple of airlines, urges Congress to pass a $15 billion airline bailout program that you rush through the Senate in record time. Pork is when you slip language into an appropriations bill indemnifying Home State Mining, located in your state of South Dakota, from cleaning up its toxic waste by passing the bill for it onto the American taxpayer. That's pork, senator. Pork is when you load up a defense appropriations bill with some $20 billion in long-term lease costs for Boeing instead of buying the aircraft, at the urging of Washington state's two liberal Democratic senators. That's pork, senator. You know what pork is. And you come up with this example of relocating these dam people. Please. You know what is not pork? Letting the people keep more of what they earn, and letting them spend it. The American people want jobs, Senator - not more worried weeks of living on tiny government checks.
