Unintentional Comedy Alert: Garrett says “stop the madness”
Subtitled: “Wherein I eviscerate the latest ridiculousness from my odious and clueless Representative
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In the latest installment from Mr. 12-1, Scott “the nut” Garrett pens an absolutely ridiculous editorial in yesterday’s Bergen Record about the stimulus/jobs/recovery bill – arguing his points as to why he voted against it.
This is a man who can claim that he thinks “many of these programs may be worthy of federal support, but there is little need to include them in a stimulus package today”, yet he has voted against worthy federal programs such as assistance for victims of elder abuse, health care for children, relief from Hurricane Katrina, and nearly every single bill that involves federal spending – something that makes Garrett regularly the only NJ representative voting (and many times one of 50 or less out of more than 400 total representatives) for or against something on any given week.
What makes this even more laughable is when one looks at his reasoning, comparisons, justifications and alternatives, there is nothing to suggest that he even knows what he is talking about – let alone do anything to help the struggling families of NJ’s fifth district stay in their homes, keep or obtain employment or deal with the rising costs of healthcare.
First, Garrett talks about what he envisions:
Cutting taxes on labor and investment helped pull our country out of recession in 2003 and 1981, and doing so again would accomplish all of the things people seeking fiscal stimulus want and more.It would provide an immediate cash infusion to American families and businesses, and their spending decisions would be based on economic conditions rather than political considerations.
Now, besides the point that many American families struggled in the 1980s under Reagan’s “trickle down” theory, and that the “recovery” in 2003 was pretty much a jobless recovery, as job losses have mounted under the business tax cuts and outsourcing mania of the past 8 years, we can see how Garrett voted against regulating Fannie and Freddie, which would have contributed to stemming their involvement in the housing crisis, and sponsored his own version of an economic stimulus plan just over one year ago consisting exclusively of corporate tax cuts. Click below for more:
