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In sixty years of watching what passes for politics in the United States, I can say with certainty that nothing has frightened me quite as much as this so-called 'Stimulus' monstrosity rushing through Congress. For one thing, Keynesian economics has been proven wrong on every economic downturn where it has been attempted. Even Keynes himself admitted the shortcomings of his theories in this area, saying, "In the end, we're all dead": neat little cop-out to absolve oneself when the end of the story is less than the glowing promise of the beginning. Keynes IS dead-but we have to live with the consequences of his theory if we follow it once again.

History has pretty much exposed the fallacy that FDR's New Deal did anything positive in the 1930's and only prolonged the depression while starving the country of capitol: he threw so much money into the public sector that the private sector was further impoverished and couldn't recover. The amount of money, the amount of deficit spending this so-called stimulus will entail boggles the mind. But, so did the so-called TARP bailouts, not to mention the other huge numbers of freshly-printed bills slipped surreptitiously out of the Federal Reserve into the hands of the international bankers without any oversight at all.

No, the huge deficit is the least of my worries. My concerns center around the dollars they DON'T talk about-the ones that are destined to destroy our freedoms and forever change the face of America. The so-called Stimulus is less about solving a widespread economic problem than about vastly expanding Socialist programs and guaranteeing their perpetuation by subterfuge. Three separate crucial parts of government-run health care are hidden in the bill, the worst part demanding an electronic record of all of our medical needs. This will allow government overseers to track what you are costing the system. The cash infusion for Medicare is sorely needed and points to the inefficiencies of government-run health care even as they reduce services and underpay for treatments, causing the rest of us to pick up the bill via inflated costs. The massive expansion of child health coverage, now extended to the children of illegal aliens-that has failed everywhere it has been tried-is another piece of the pie-in-the-sky plan. Perhaps the money for STD prevention is meant to support a growth industry of prostitution? Do you need a college education for that?

For those who think the idea of government-run health care is just

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