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The $50 Lesson: a joke with a real life lesson —)

The $50 Lesson

Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard,
my neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their
dog.

During our friendly conversation, I asked their 12 year old daughter
what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be
President some day.
…
Both of her parents – liberal Democrats – were standing there, so I
asked her, “If you were President what would be the first thing you
would do?”

She replied, “I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.”

Her parents beamed with pride!

“Wow…what a worthy goal!” I said. “But you don’t have to wait until
you’re President to do that!” I told her.

“What do you mean?” she replied.

So I told her, “You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull
weeds, and trim my hedge, and I’ll pay you $50. Then you can go over
to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can
give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.”

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight
in the eye and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do
the work, and you can just pay him the $50?”

I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.”

Her parents aren’t speaking to me.

Unhappy Birthday: $timulus Turns 3 , by Rep. John KIien

Unhappy Birthday: $timulus Turns 3

Dear Friends,

Today marks the three-year anniversary of the President Obama’s $1 trillion so-called stimulus, which failed even by the President’s own standards. Much like his job-killing ObamaCare law, the stimulus is one of many examples of how the President’s policies have failed and made the economy worse because it spent money we don’t have on jobs we didn’t get.

Below are some results from the President’s stimulus:

  • 36: The number of consecutive months the unemployment rate has been at or above 8 percent. Prior to the enactment of the “stimulus,” unemployment had not been above 8 percent for 36 consecutive months since the Great Depression.
  • 9.3%:  The average rate of unemployment from March 2009 (the month after the failed $1.2 trillion “stimulus” was enacted) through January 2012.
  • 1,152,000: The number of net jobs the economy has shed from February 2009 – when the Democrats’ “stimulus” was signed into law – through January 2011.
  • 12,758,000: The number of unemployed Americans looking for work in the month of January.
  • $3,378: The amount by which median household incomes dropped in 2010, falling to its lowest level since 1996. Household income has fallen by 6.4 percent since 2007.
  • 46,286,294: The number of Americans receiving food stamps as of November 2011, the most in any month in history. Today, 15 percent of Americans receive food stamps, an increase of 40 percent since President Obama took office.
  • 1 out of 2: According to a December 2011 Census Bureau report, nearly half of all Americans are now classified as poor or low-income and the number of poor in America has reached an all-time high under President Obama.
  • 13th: Where the U.S. ranks in ease of starting a business in the world according to a World Bank report. In 2007, the U.S. ranked 3rd.
  • $4.7 trillion: Since President Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009, the national debt has increased by $4.7 trillion or 45 percent in just three years, from $10.6 trillion to nearly $15.4 trillion.
  • $1,327,000,000,000: The projected deficit in 2012. President Obama has the three largest deficits in U.S. history, and piled up more debt than every president from George Washington to Bill Clinton combined.
  • 89%: Since President Obama took office, gas prices have increased by 89 percent according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

To read state-by-state analysis of where some of the stimulus spending went, click here.
To view a video titled, “The Promise That Became a Punchline,” click here.

What is shocking is that after four years of trillion dollar deficits and $15 trillion of debt, the President still hasn’t learned his lesson. He got the $1 trillion of spending he asked for, but the American people didn’t get the jobs they were promised. Instead of changing course his latest budget doubles-down on these failed policies. This can’t stand, and I will continue to fight against his Big Government proposals as I serve you in Congress.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please e-mail me or visit the Kline for Congress website. You can always post comments on my Facebook wall as well.

Have a great weekend!

Sincerely,