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Can Democrats Give You Gas?
September 12, 2008 | Tagged Democrat, Gas, Obama, Vote Buying | 6 Comments
Feeling bloated? Abdominal pressure starting to get to you? Those are natural physical reactions to the possibility of Democrats controlling the executive and legislative branches of the federal government next January. This “gut reaction” is not the type of gas to which this blog refers. This is about the type of gas (gasoline) that the libiot Democrats would like to use to buy votes in the coming election. It’s not, however, like buying votes is the only goal of the American Marxist (aka Democrat) Party. Their plan serves the secondary purpose of class division based on income.
The Hill has an article today, “Democrats’ latest idea: gas stamps.”
“It’s certainly under consideration,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told The Hill on Thursday afternoon. “It would be like food stamps for those people who need help.”
Gas stamps would work like traditional food stamps, which some Americans have collected since the 1930s. They would be used, however, to pay for regular unleaded instead of meat and potatoes.
Under one version of the proposal, a person earning up to $31,200 or a family of four earning up to $63,600 could receive government payments totaling $500 for gas.
Hoyer said he was not ready to discuss details about the proposal because he is focused on passing a comprehensive energy bill Democrats unveiled this week.
Is there any doubt that we must continuously monitor these morons? The Dems want to keep gas prices high, get the government’s unfair share via taxes, and maintain their majorities with a little bribery. So back to the question posed in the title, “can Democrats give you gas?” Apparently the answer is yes, if your income is below a certain level, you can reap the benefits of wealth redistribution. The libiots certainly love their class divisions, don’t they?
Whose brilliant scheme is this “gas stamp” redistribution?
The idea for fuel stamps was first proposed by maverick Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), chairman of the House Income Security and Family Support subcommittee, who remembers his family using gas stamps when he was a boy during World War II.
“If you had to drive to work, you got to buy more gasoline than if you just drove your car on the weekends,” he said of the wartime policy.
McDermott, who introduced the idea before the August recess, said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made favorable mention of gas stamps Wednesday during an afternoon caucus meeting on a pending energy bill.
I hope the good people of McDermott’s district are strongly considering Steve Beren this November. I don’t think Mr. Beren would support spending tax dollars to buy votes for Democrats at $500 a pop… or is that $1500 a pop? It would be grotesquely negligent to forget about “Big Brother” Barack Obama’s “New Energy For America” plan. This bold plan presented by this hollow man proposes stealing earnings from oil companies and redistributing $1000 increments to citizens who did not earn it.
- Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families.Obama will enact a windfall profits tax on excessive oil company profits to give American families an immediate $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families pay rising bills. This relief would be a down payment on Obama’s long-term plan to provide middle-class families with at least $1,000 per year in permanent tax relief.
Barack and his fellow libiots intend to create further dependence on government! Is it even remotely possible that a thinking person could look at these proposals and not see the loss of liberty? Punishing success stands very little chance of encouraging job creation. On the surface this will work out for the vermin that populates the American Marxist (aka Democrat) Party, but eventually they will drive enough companies out of business and out of the country that there is no longer enough income for them to use to buy votes. A great nation will lie in ruins thanks to the short-sighted power seeking of these miserable people and once again there will be a dull example that socialism does not work. Unfortunately for the American electorate, if “Big Brother” Barack Obama, Steny Hoyer, Jim McDermott, and their ilk have their way, we will be the next example.
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Statement by Steve Beren, Republican candidate for U.S. Congress (WA – 7th CD), July 23, 2008
My opponent, far left Democratic incumbent Jim McDermott yesterday proposed a new $5 billion program, supposedly to provide “gas stamps” to poor people. Unfortunately, this bill does nothing at all to reduce gas prices, and offers no real help to the American people. Not a word about where this $5 billion would come from, but obviously it would lead to either $5 billion in increased taxes or $5 billion added to the federal deficit.
According to McDermott’s congressional website, under McDermott’s bill, the current SSBG (Social Services Block Grant) program would receive a $5 billion infusion to finance a “Gas Stamps” program. The program is supposedly intended to assist low income families purchase gas, but according to McDermott’s congressional website “(S)tate governors would have the flexibility to use the money to create programs that target the specific needs of their communities.” Washington State has about 2.11% of the entire United States population, so that’s perhaps $105.5 million for Christine Gregoire. Do we really want to trust Christine Gregoire with “the flexibility” to use perhaps $105.5 million to “create programs”?
McDermott’s legislation does nothing to reduce the price of gas. In order to that, we need to increase the supply of oil, and that means expanding drilling and removing regulations that restrict the ability of oil companies to expand refinery capacity.
Jim McDermott, Nancy Pelosi, and their fellow Democrats took control of congress in 2006 with big promises, including a promise to reduce gas prices. But the Democrats have failed – just one more reason that voters have an extremely low opinion of congress.
Some far left extremists in the environmentalist movement believe that cars, highways, and fossil fuels are pushing the planet toward disaster, and that higher gas prices are necessary to “force people out of their cars” and “force people off the roads” and “deal with climate change.”
McDermott and the Democratic majority in congress has acted in accordance with the influence of these extremists, seeking to prevent the oil companies from increasing supply in order to bring prices down. McDermott himself has a hypocritical record of opposition to increasing the supply of oil. He has consistently favored heavy penalties and increased taxes on oil companies, and strong restrictions limiting the ability of oil companies to build new refineries and open new avenues of exploration for oil.
During the 2006 campaign, Jim McDermott said that “the oil companies fully intend to keep raising prices at the pump…. this crisis is not about supply and demand.” McDermott accused “a handful of oil companies” of deliberately “refusing to supply … in order to drive up the prices.” He argued that only by electing Democrats would the oil companies be forced to increase supply, leading to reduced prices. (Jim McDermott, speech of 4/26/06)
However, once the Democrats achieved a majority in congress, they pursued a counter-productive policy of inaction. The price of gas has gone up approximately $1.70 per gallon since Nancy Pelosi became speaker – and House Republican Leader John Boehner correctly calls this price increase the “Pelosi premium.”
McDermott’s official congressional website says that “many difficult environmental problems, including acid rain, global warming, and air pollution, are the direct result of our fossil fuel consumption” and therefore McDermott “opposes oil exploration” in ANWAR and “off-shore areas of California and Florida.”
McDermott’s legislation also does nothing to actually help poor people. The best thing we can do for the American people – including low income people – is to strengthen economic growth and improve the business climate by reducing taxes.
We should eliminate taxes for everybody making less than $25,000 a year, and we should greatly reduce taxes for everybody else. This could be done, for example, by raising the personal exemption to $25,000.
We need to sharply reduce spending, cut taxes, reduce the deficit, and balance the budget. I’m for lower taxes and smaller government, because lower taxes are better for families, property owners, and small businesses. Lower taxes lead to increased liberty. With lower taxes, families have more money for their needs: mortgage, college education, and health insurance. With lower taxes, business have more money to invest, hire, and provide services. Less government bureaucracy improves the business climate and promotes job growth. If taxes are lower, liberty is increased. If taxes are lower, families have more of their own money to pay their mortgages, educate their children, and purchase health insurance. If taxes are lower, businesses have more of their own money to invest, leading to more jobs, more products, and more services.
In my campaign against Jim McDermott, I am promoting free market solutions, energy independence, and conservative policies – right in the heart of Seattle and King County.
We need to put the highest priority on ending our dependence on foreign oil. Our national security gives this a special priority in any energy policy. If we are going to use oil, it is preferable that we use domestic oil – American oil. Let’s put Americans to work, drilling American oil in America – for use by Americans!
We must remove the regulations, restrictions, and obstacles that block the construction of new oil refineries. And to increase supply and reduce prices, let’s drill here, and drill now.
Probably not, but they can cause some fairly serious indigestion.
Seriously, with all the welfare and food stamp fraud, can’t you just see the low life cons watering at the mouth for such stupidity?
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I am sure that our libtard (to use a word I often see on your blog) friends will prevent anyone taking advantage of their generous redistribution of other people’s money… on Fantasy Island maybe.
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