Same Message; Different President

Today President Obama said that “failure to act [on the stimulus bill] would turn crisis into catastrophe”. Isn’t that essentially the same line we were fed by President Bush in the days leading up to the 700 billion dollar bailout? The same message that scared some of us into supporting a bailout that we once opposed? The same bailout that we have no idea where half the money went and the other half hasn’t even been spent? The same bailout that required such urgent action that nobody had a chance to truly dissect it and think of better alternatives?

I’m sorry–fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me. America should be ashamed if they let another politician scare them into supplication.

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