Jan 28 2009
Slippery Slope Effect
$335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL!
Who gets what—a breakdown! Oh, it’s broken down! Seems like the same old thang to me…
What are you worried about? Relax! This has nothing to do with that… I’m not talking about going that extreme… Not coming out of your pocket—hehehe.
I’m talking about the Slippery Slope Effect. An imaginary concept that if one bends on a particular issue that everything else will soon be forced upon us and slide off the cliff…
The opposition to whatever the issue may be feels and is always saying, I can’t move an inch on the subject even if I want too because then you will want another inch and so on. That’s a ridiculous stance because that never happens… (sarcasm for those of you who don’t get it!)
—This effect can happen on both sides of isle or any relationship.
Some major battles of the day that are being fought over being affected by the Slippery Slope Effect:
- Gun control
- Same sex marriage
- The word God in public
- Stem Cell research and development
- Euthanasia
- Illegal and legal immigration issues
- Socialized anything
- Welfare
- Tax increases/decreases
The list goes on and on, because most of us have lived long enough to know that there is some truth to this concept of Slippery Slope effect.
From the time you were a kid and victimized or witnessed someone else be victimized by the school yard bully for milk money. Once the precedence was established re-occurrence was assured and quickly slipped off the cliff and was an ongoing affair. Appeasing blackmailers usually slips off the cliff by needing to constantly appease the blackmailers.
So, why are the current solutions to the current financial disaster any different? If we don’t act now, the end of the world will be thrust upon us!
And then after the appeasement happens… I want more!
Even after the story changes and what needed to be done is modified to suit other needs(The emperor has no clothes and we are all a witness it. No matter!)—more, more, more—off the cliff! It’s too late!
Oh, the end of the world—that’s serious! We must act! The sky is falling—that’s serious! The boy is crying wolf—yikes!
Social Security tax was money that gets sucked out of everyone’s paycheck—we don’t even question it any more. The money is to be put aside to help society down the road—put in a locked box! The box is empty fools! The money has been redirected even though all the promises of security.
Wake up before it’s too late—the SKY IS FALLING!
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TheAnchoressOnline: “Stimulus” bill needs to die…
take two of them and call your representative and let him or her know how you feel about this absurdly pork-filled “stimulus” package, which is approaching almost 900 BILLION dollars.
The package does not seem to create many jobs at all – but it does keep shoveling money at the people who waste it while producing nothing and creating few jobs.
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HotAir: The Democratic Porkfest Bill of 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The Wall Street Journal calls it the “40-year Wish List”. Michelle calls it the “Generational Theft Act”. Others have started calling it the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Debt Act. Whatever name one gives it, the least likely is stimulus. The WSJ calculates that no more than 12 cents on the dollar in the trillion-dollar whale goes to actual economic stimulus, and that the rest go to Democratic wish lists for electoral advantage
NRSC ad: “Trillion” by Ed Morrissey —Harry Reid, super-spender.
Michelle Malkin: Stop, thief! Kill the bill, melt the phones
President Obama thinks he knows what the primary objective of Republicans in Washington should be: To “get things done.” Bashing Rush Limbaugh last week, Obama urged GOP lawmakers to ignore the voices of obstructionism and sign on to his behemoth stimulus package: “We shouldn’t let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done.” Meeting with GOP leaders on Tuesday, Obama repeated his entreaty: “I don’t expect 100 percent agreement from my Republican colleagues, but I do hope that we can all put politics aside and do the American people’s business right now.”
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