Poor, Delusional Alren Specter

J.J. Jackson | February 17, 2010 

Everyone knows that my opinion of Senator Arlen Specter is not at all good. His intelligence is on par with that of a ripe tomato and, well to be honest, I believe that the ripe tomato would better serve the citizens of Pennsylvania.  To some that may sound harsh but seriously, the man is dimmer than a burned out light bulb.  How he managed to get elected to the Senate for so many years is one of the great mysteries of the universe.

Just this morning I was lamenting that after a flurry of email news letters from Mr. Specter leading up to the defeat of the socialized health care bill which he supported, and that now languishes in Congress looking for a place to curl up and die, that I had not heard much from him. I assumed that he had crawled back into his little hole to try and figure out how on Earth he could win reelection this November. It doesn’t look good for him after all. Well, as it turns out today I got another email news letter from the Senator. Arlen is still out and about toting the liberal water for President Obama and trying desperately to convince Pennsylvanians that he has some vague clue of his own existence and that President Obama’s stimulus plan has created jobs.

One thing is for certain, government is certainly creating jobs.  And with the census gearing up to harass American citizens to answer all sorts of unconstitutional questions it will create many more.  But the numbers do not lie.  Specter is attempting to say with a straight face that, “estimates from the best-known economic research firms that the bill has added 1.6 million to 1.8 million jobs thus far and will ultimately impact roughly 2.5 million jobs,” and that, “The Congressional Budget Office, an independent agency, considers these estimates to be conservative.” The truth? As of January 2010 the Bureau of Labor Statistics states plainly that 3.89 million more Americans are unemployedthan a year ago. Ok, so Obama’s plan which Specter endorsed added 1.6-1.8 million but we lost 3.89 million? That means that we lost a total of somewhere around 5.5 million jobs overall once you take out the ones the benevolent government in Washington created for us!

This is some sort of victory? I guess to a man struggling to retain his job it is. Hey, I can pay a man to dig a hole and pay another to fill it back in too all day long if I am the government. But is this really a good thing?

The fact of the matter is there is no real evidence to back such a claim by Specter. The real evidence shows that jobs have been lost, not gained, and lost in droves. In one year there has been an increase in the civilian labor force of two million souls, that is the Civilian noninstitutional population which are people of the age 16 or older. While the civilian labor force in this same time shrank by one million. This myth of job creation from the Obama Administration is just another Big Lie.

Senator Specter babbles on about how much money the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will receive and puts forth a lot of smoke and mirrors while parading around a dog and pony show. He of course never addresses the issue that he and his fellows in Congress never had the authority under our Constitution and its limited grant of powers to the federal government to even undertake this grandiose plan which has failed. That’s ok though. I have emailed Senator Specter often enough seeking some rational response to such questions and gotten the same canned and false arguments that such things are actually somewhere within his power to undertake to know that he would not know the Constitution if it bit him in the rear.

And thus the beat goes on. The cliff is ahead and the lemmings who cannot think for themselves, but envision themselves as leaders, as Specter does, are quickly headed over the edge.  And I for one, despite being the evil capitalist that I am, am not going to sell them parachutes.


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