“When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government tens of billions of dollars further into debt.

Republicans scoff at the “Jobs for Main Street Act” title that House Democrats put on their $174 billion package last month. They refer to it as “son of the stimulus,” the $787 billion economic recovery plan of nearly a year ago that they say was ineffective at producing jobs.”

How does the old saying go? “Repeating the same behavior over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity”, or something like that?

Well, that’s exactly what this is. Are there any sane people left in the world? Does anybody remember when they told us that the stimulus package would stop unemployment at eight percent? That didn’t happen, did it? Our government has turned into a remake of the scene from the Steve Martin classic “The Jerk”. You know, the part where he says, “I have this remote control and that’s all I need!”
However, instead of a remote control, our government says that all it needs is just another $174 billion in borrowed/printed money.

Somebody stop the world and let those of us with math skills off, please.

It is beyond obvious at this point that capitalism has been completely scrapped in favor of cracking open Monopoly boxes and handing out money. Anybody with even a rudimentary education in economics and history will tell you that this is completely counterproductive to our free market system, and that it is in fact our free market system that has made America the most powerful and prosperous nation in the history of mankind.

Jobs cannot be created by handing out money arbitrarily. For an economy to remain strong, money most circulate, and that circulation must be spurred by demand. The best way to create demand is by cutting taxes, which would by definition necessitate a cut in government spending. (Agreed, this is a pipe dream, but it is what should happen.)

When you strip away all of the econo-speak, our system is fairly simple. It basically works like this:

Essentially, when money is given back to consumers, “consumption” increases. When consumption increases, demand increases. When demand increases, businesses must expand to meet the demand, and when businesses expand, that means jobs. Real jobs. The kind of jobs that the market sustains on its own, and not the kind of overpriced, phony “shovel ready” job that only lasts a few weeks because there is no demand for what they supposedly produce, and consequently disappear because the artificially created money runs out.

It’s a proven system, and it has worked every single time it’s tried. Yet there are some in positions of power who seem convinced that a government-controlled economy is better, despite all of the historical evidence to the contrary.

Perhaps we should coin a new phrase:

You can send politicians to Washington, but you can’t make them think.

A radical Muslim preacher has been filmed talking about fraudulently claiming benefits and giving advice on how to cheat the Government.

After a story about a wealthy man, he said: “There was one man, he had a lot of money - just like us, we have a lot of money today from the income support and the incapacity benefit.

“Obviously when you have the incapacity benefit, you want to make sure you walk with a limp when you leave the house just in case there’s someone taking pictures.

“Obviously you don’t need to tell them that, the Department of Work and Pensions.”

Waleed has links through the London School of Shariah, in Bethnal Green, which hosts guest speakers such as jailed fanatic Abu Hamza and radical British Islamist Anjem Choudary.

Now to be fair, Islam - like all the major religions - prohibits stealing.

[5:38] The thief, male or female, you shall mark their hands as a punishment for their crime, and to serve as an example from GOD. GOD is Almighty, Most Wise.

But this isn’t stealing. Islam doesn’t see you and I - or the West - as worth adhering to that Sura for. Instead we pay the jizya to live as dhimmis, under a completely different Sura.

[9:29] “Fight against such as those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians]…until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.”

So really, they’re doing nothing wrong. After all, we are utterly subdued.

British Tory work and pensions spokesman Chris Grayling seems to think that it’s the Prime Minister’s fault that so many young British are bone lazy. The daily Mail reports that a fifth of children in the UK are living on benefits, because their parents aren’t working. In fact, many of them aren’t even looking for work - they just sit around. My sister-in-law was like that. In fact, she didn’t even want to get married to her great love (she eventually did) because she’d have to start paying rent and her benefit would be slashed, all because he had the temerity to have a good job. Gross.

But this Grayling fellow blames Gordon Brown.

“Gordon Brown and his ministers are always claiming how much they have done - but the reality on the ground tells a very different story.

“Worklessness is endemic in many communities, but even so, the fact that nearly half the children brought up in some areas come from homes entirely dependent on benefits is a figure that should bring shame to ministers, particularly given the fact that so many people have come to work in Britain from overseas in the past ten years.”

Mr. Grayling doesn’t think that maybe the derelicts themselves might be to blame?

You know, I saw a t-shirt at CPAC that read:

We’ll solve poverty the day after we solve laziness and stupidity