More Inane Commentary from Columbus Tea Party Organizer
Filed under: Economic Stimuls, Gov Strickland, Ohio Economy, Recession, U.S. Economy, U.S. Financial Crisis
Justin Huggins Displays His Posse Comitatus Membership Card
Meet Justin Higgins, a 19 year-old Ohio State University college Republican who’s got things all figured out. I mean if it weren’t for Constitutional provisions against one so young holding the nation’s highest office, we could put young Justin there in the White House, hold him in high esteem like a young Dalai Llama and he could point us all along the path to political and economic enlightenment.
For now, though, we’ll have to settle for Saturday, March 14 at the Statehouse in Columbus where Higgins will be the master of ceremonies for The Columbus Tea Party. The party begins at 11 a.m. and is sponsored by College Republicans and Americans for Prosperity. (Do you know any Americans who are not for prosperity?)
Higgins and others are wigging out over the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka the Stimulus Bill. The notion that the need for this bill rests in part on the unregulated economic behavior of most of the world’s major banks, investment houses and insurers is completely lost on them. While Justin no doubt luxuriates in his college boy lifestyle subsidized by Mom and Dad, he’s got the time for contemplation to say stupid things like this on 610-WTVN radio today:
We’re going to protest and basically tell Governor Strickland that we don’t want him taking this stimulus money because the last thing we need is more unfunded mandates and more ridiculous spending on the state level.
When these funds run out, we have to pay for it.
Allow me to get right to the point with young master Higgins: What the hell are you talking about?
Governor Strickland? Direct aid to for state budgets was partially his idea – borne from the extraordinary circumstances within which the U.S. economy is mired. How many prisons can we close? Are we going to offer no mental health services? Do we close state parks? This is a national problem and the federal government is helping the states get through the next couple of years. Oh, and Justin – should Gov. Strickland not take the money to shore up the state’s unemployment compensation fund, or the money that will keep small rural or urban hospitals from closing their doors or the funding to fix or improve highways or bridges?
Unfunded mandates? Who are you Higgins – a Newt Gingrich staffer circa 1994? An unfunded mandate is when the federal or other government imposes a rule or law on a subservient political entity that will cost said entity resources to implement – which are not provided. Whatever you think of the stimulus bill, you can hardly call it a vehicle for unfunded mandates. The majority of the money within the legislation moves through already existing federal funding streams. Medicaid is a good example. There are not new Medicaid programs in the bill, but there are large increases in funding to states to keep services going while the economy is in the tank. The federal government is not saying, “build more highways.” The federal government is increasing the dollars available to states for transportation projects. Bringing up “unfunded mandates” is inane in this situation and either shows the party organizer’s stupidity or that he got his sets of talking points mixed up.
Finally, “When these funds run out, we have to pay for it.” Huh? Dude, the state of Ohio is not on the hook for paying this back. I don’t believe Higgins and the other Tea Partiers understand what they’re talking about. Their own Republican Party failed them and the rest of the country for eight years, six of which they controlled Congress as well as the White House. We’re suffering for their mistakes. This economic stimulus is known as priming the pump and it’s what responsible governments do when the private sector economy is coming down around them.
What’s really going on is that the 2010 governor’s race is beginning to get on Ohio Republican Party leaders’ minds. Ted Strickland has been nothing but a responsible steward of the executive branch of state government. He has the support of Ohio’s business community because of common sense regulatory reform and electrical generation legislation which he wrote. He’s not raising taxes to pay for the recession or fixing education. Bringing him into the whole Tea Party thing is just thoughtless politics.
Interestingly enough, there are philosophical points which the Tea Partiers could argue regarding the economy and the Obama Administration’s policies. The problem is, those philosophical underpinnings have either been tested or failed or conservative leaders failed their movement. The only thing this country has going for it politically right now is Barack Obama and governors like Ted Strickland. These times call for action and they call for government investment.
One thing you probably won’t hear at the Tea Party on Capitol Square next Saturday is an alternative. You’ll hear more about conspiracy theories regarding the president’s place of birth than you’ll hear about alternatives.
why are you publicizing his event?
Maybe we could get some counter protesters out there
Bring it on.. you will BE SURROUNDED.. you and your puppets and chants!
Hey Pelikan, you have an offer to go onto 610WTVN and spread your message if you have the brains and balls to do it.
Like a typical liberal that runs at the threat of having to provide substance to your argument, I am SURE you won’t go on the show.
It was GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS like Fannie Mae and FREDDY MAC giving loans out to irresponsible people like you that damaged this economy, and now you want to give the people who are irresponsible with their finances another loan to default again??? Oh you are a wise one.
And I LOVE the comment OHIO is “Off the hook” for payback. Hey you DOLT! That money belongs to TAXPAYERS! It isn’t free!!! Typical of you liberals to think it grows freely on trees (Ok, maybe it did until Global warming killed the money trees???). Is that why you pick off the achievers in this country instead?
Go on 610WTVN with your drivel. CHICKEN! BWOCK BWOCK BWOCK! or should I say, BARACK BARACK BARACK!
Hey DIRK! Where will the libs stick their bumper stickers and pin their ribbons? You know that is how they win an argument.
- Denver
Take a look at this.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090312/ap_on_re_us/stimulus_texas
I think his point is that the extra money from the federal government is temporary, but the required modifications to the programs are permanent. So, in a couple of years, voila!, you have a classic (and massive) unfunded mandate.
Perhaps doing a little homework before spouting so aggressively would be a good idea.
I am as mad as a hornet in a disturbed nest. Open a CD, money martket or other investment to help pay the way in retirement, and redistribution liberals tax the earnings so heavily almost nothing is earned. We need a Dr. Martin Luther King to lead a national Tea Party. If Justin Higgins is the young man to take the lead in tea parties, which I pray daily will evolve into a national movement, he has my support. See http://www.freedomtofascism.com
The level of your stupidity is unmeasurenable. Most of what you decry needs to be done very well by using w/ private dollars. The Feds need to stay the H3ll out of state programs.
Local charity needs to be done by LOCAL CHARITY!!! Saving the local indigents CANNOT be done by federal government (have you ever heard of the USSR? Did you notice that it COLLAPSED?!!! Oh, NO YOU DIDN’T!!)
Bottom line….
You have no idea what made this country great.
It wasn’t the control by the government.
It was the FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM!!
I’M sorry about your lack of understanding about how this was based since its inception and how it has worked for the last 150+ years.
STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!
Most liberal use invectives.
Most right-thinking people don’t have to…