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July 22, 2008

Coming Soon: Gas Stamps (genghis)
— Open Blog

Brought to you by none other than Baghdad Jim McDermott (D-WTF?). I mustve done something truly horrible in a former lifetime to be sentenced to live in this guys district. The proposed legislation is to create a new program along the lines of the federal food stamp program. The press release and proposed bill are here.

Some highlights:

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, introduced legislation today to provide financial assistance to vulnerable Americans struggling to survive under crushing gasoline prices.
The Emergency Gasoline Assistance Act (H.R. 6561) would create a program to provide $5 billion to states as a one-time grant with the money designated to provide assistance to families of modest means to purchase gasoline. This program could provide every family that is currently living below the federal poverty threshold with $500 in assistance. State governors would have the flexibility to use the money to create programs that target the specific needs of their communities.

Found via Dori Monson.

Posted by: Open Blog at 06:43 PM | Comments (60)
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1 I read the bill. The text of that bill is a joke, right? It would take several years before any states could ever get infrastructure in place to implement the distribution, and even then, there is nothing in it that compensates the states for the added burden of implementing this -- and dumbo's bill puts the whole of the burden of implementation onto the states.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 22, 2008 06:54 PM (loWAm)

2 We gotta get that income threshold up....say to ummmm $55k/yr.

We also got to help the "poor" buy gas efficient cars.

I can't wait!

Posted by: torabora at July 22, 2008 06:59 PM (w/bNr)

3 Hey I just thought of something....are you gonna need to have a car or even a drivers license to get the 500 clams? Will phony drivers licenses do?Will a 120mpg moped do? A wheelchair?A airplane? A model airplane? Will Hot Wheels do?What if I have lots of cars?Do they have to run? Do I have to buy only fuel or can I get gas, a sixpack, and cigs? Can I trade my voucher for crack?

Hurry Jim I just put the whole 500 on a horse.

Posted by: torabora at July 22, 2008 07:14 PM (w/bNr)

4 Is there no crisis that government intervention can't solve?

Or is that 'make worse'? I forget...

Posted by: Chief Clancy Wiggum at July 22, 2008 07:21 PM (eBAfw)

5 Or we could just drill our own oil. Nahh... not hopenchangey enough.

Posted by: Jones at July 22, 2008 07:30 PM (kKjaJ)

6 Don't worry they are going to consult with Castro's corpse in order to work out the kinks and demarketize the procedure.

Posted by: ntac at July 22, 2008 07:47 PM (8p8gu)

7 Is it time for the civil war these stupid pandering aholes seem to want so desperately? This fat puke makes me sick!

Posted by: mdb at July 22, 2008 08:11 PM (g7r5b)

Awesome. A retarded traitor is spending my money to help the "poor" again. Why don't we make sure the "poor" can have beer money, too. Why not? My wife and I are "rich". We don't pay nearly enough to subsidize the unproductive and shiftless masses. They need me to pay for gas, too. In addition to food stamps, free housing, free health care, free day care, free job training, free college, etc.

In Obamaese, "rich" means "employed".

Posted by: fugazi at July 22, 2008 08:22 PM (5mqcQ)

9 ::sigh:: I live in his district. Not by choice, though. I married into it. Guess I'll be writing another letter tomorrow. They love me over there.

Posted by: Jana at July 22, 2008 08:27 PM (PflST)

10 I have a job that puts me in the middle class, and yet somehow, I have less money than the poor do.

Posted by: Lincoln at July 22, 2008 08:37 PM (ExJZV)

11 Credentials first (since the libtards seem to require them): I live in one of Iowa's most rural counties. We're nearly SBA HubZone designated (the county next to us is) due to unemployment levels, and have an education level that is lower than the HubZone county. Our county is damn poor, infested with meth, and in other words, an Obama demographic dream.

That said, Jumpin' Jim's proposal disregards reality. Our population that would benefit from his proposal divides its discretionary income between two sources:

1. State Lotto Tickets
2. Cigarettes and Beer

As a risk professional, I'm often in line with Jim's proposed hand-out recipients. I cannot afford out of my budget to spend what they do on lotto tickets, smokes and beer. They spend $20-$30 per visit on a few packs of smokes, a 12-pack of beer and 3-4 tickets, while I'm buying store brands to afford the $4.69/gal diesel to get to work. They're able to live it large on the frills, while I'm cutting out any frills so I can take care of getting to work, putting my bare minimum into the 401K, paying the mortgage and the bills. My wife and I make low six-figures. Jumpin' Jim's demographic apparently makes less than $40K.

God help us from the tyranny of the poor. We can't afford their careless lifestyle of excess. Between the income redistributed to them for lifestyle choices we can't make ourselves, and our political elite which we've learned no longer pays gas taxes (while proposing to increase them on us), and we're ready to have one glorious tea party.

Forget about Atlas Shrugging... this is one pack mule ready to buck.

Posted by: redherkey at July 22, 2008 09:13 PM (kjqFg)

12 Having read the other posts here, I'd have to believe a lot of us are in the same boat. I paid more than 45% of my meager income in taxes last year, and have passed 50% when diesel taxes are factored this year. For a just-recent exec, and a wife who's a rural schoolteacher, we simply cannot afford the cost of liberalism.

I was ready to have a tea party when I read today that our liberal congresspersons aren't paying gas taxes. Our party elites, who want to tack on another dime for gas and quarter for already over-taxed diesel, are pulling up to tax-free state gas pumps.

How many times are we going to be "taken up the backside" (as Teddy Kennedy would say) before we say no more? What's the next step? I've already canceled any publication that has AP, Reuters, etc. in it to punish these bastards for enabling this parasitic mess, and am glad to see them suffering from the loss of subscribers. But something more significant is needed to hit the political parasites.

Posted by: redherkey at July 22, 2008 09:20 PM (kjqFg)

13 I used to live in his district but I relocated to the marginally better district up in lynnwood. they are still a bunch of commies and u think the mosque down the street is an al-qaeda cell but it's better that downtown seattle.

Posted by: chad at July 22, 2008 09:44 PM (WNcvq)

14 What do they need gas money for, joy rides?

Posted by: KansasGirl at July 22, 2008 11:00 PM (5O2YA)

Wow! Our great government stepping in to help us. Why don't they help us by just investing in alternate fuels so we don't have to be so dependent or foreign ones. These stamps are just going to come out of tax payers money anyways.

Posted by: Boston Knucklehead at July 23, 2008 01:16 AM (RtQhW)

16 I would be much less worried by the expansion of the welfare state if recipients of government handouts were denied the right to vote like convicted felons are.

Posted by: Calix at July 23, 2008 01:59 AM (8d3U/)

17 Rule one of the Dems: Never, ever miss an opportunity to expand socialism.

Posted by: Andy at July 23, 2008 02:17 AM (23Gys)

18 In the name of "fairness," will we have to give a $500.00 voucher to non-owners of vehicles, also? I can see inner-city bus users demanding one also - and inner city mayors demanding $500.00 for every ghetto-dwelling scumbag inner city resident they represent.

One other thing: at $4.00/gallon, this is 125 gallons. That's what - 6-8 fillups for a 15 year old car? The poor aren't driving leased cars, nor do they drive purchased 4 year old cars. They drive old beaters with (generally) terrible mileage. Even assuming they don't trade the certs for cash, the only way this will transform anyone's life is if they trade it for cash, buy some beer, get drunk, and wreck their car.

This is not change I hope for; it is a stupid election-year stunt and nothing more.

Posted by: Uncle Ted at July 23, 2008 02:18 AM (1Mq7K)

The Dem/Libs gotta keep their power base happy - after all, they're breeding the hordes of dependant Dem voters that the libs count on to win in the future. No give-away is too lavish, no burden on the taxpayer or expansion of unsupportable debt is too great. I'm glad I don't & won't have kids - there's no future in this jackassery.

If it were up to me the only new subsidy the "poor" would get is free sterilization (for the females, that is).

Posted by: Reactionary at July 23, 2008 02:32 AM (H7yZC)

20 Just give them free bus tickets.

Posted by: BillyBob at July 23, 2008 02:49 AM (v9vTw)

21 I think means testing at the gas station would be a much better idea. Two prices--or maybe a sliding scale. Press 1 if you are disadvantaged...

Posted by: MamaAJ at July 23, 2008 03:51 AM (X6Zdh)

22 Even Nouri al-Maliki wants us to leave. So much for sovereignty...

Posted by: Maddow at July 23, 2008 03:58 AM (pJ14l)

23 How many vouchers do the illegal aliens get?

Posted by: Robert at July 23, 2008 03:58 AM (oHBxM)

This is not good enough.

ALL the poors gas needs to be like $1.00 a gallon. Not just $500 bucks worth. We need tiered pricing for the empoverished and the government should pay the difference.

That way I can buy $1.50 gas out of red plastic containers from the bum across the street from the station.

Posted by: Entropy at July 23, 2008 04:01 AM (m6c4H)

25 Hey! Why not try the same idea, only with schools?? We can send some coupons - "vouchers," if you will - not just to the poor but to everybody with school kids. It doesn't have to cost much since it would be taken from the money that goes to fund the public schools in the first place. The only difference is the schools would have to compete in the marketplace to get the dough. Whaddyasay, Jim?

Posted by: VRWC Agent at July 23, 2008 04:46 AM (Z3AmO)

26 The real problem would be people licking the stamps and trying to stuff them in their gas tanks.

Posted by: MamaAJ at July 23, 2008 04:49 AM (X6Zdh)

27 Being a Democrat, Dim McJermott has no intention of actually implementing this plan. He wants saner heads(conservatives) to come out in opposition and kill it. This will allow him to paint them as heartless greedheads that don't care about the unfortunate and him as a saint. How many times have we seen this from Pelosi, Reid et al?

Posted by: mark c at July 23, 2008 04:58 AM (EVmYn)

28 Only a Democrat could look at the problem of tight supply and propose subsidizing demand as the solution.

Posted by: Guvnah at July 23, 2008 05:08 AM (Rg8DN)

29 Don't feel bad about the congressional district you line in . I live in Congressman Jim McGovern D-Cuba/Venezuela 's district in Massachusetts so I not only have a clueless D congressman but also legislature,governor,both senators and the entire rest of the congressional delegation.

Posted by: Sharon at July 23, 2008 05:14 AM (/rn73)

30 Hey, why not send some of us middle class folks over there to clean their toilets as well?

Posted by: Warden at July 23, 2008 05:28 AM (KXbGD)

In the immortal words of the Roman Senators in "History of the World, Part I", I say "Fuck the Poor".

Posted by: Scott at July 23, 2008 05:32 AM (Hkgp8)

32 I prefer a handout program to give every American a drilling rig.

Posted by: Dusty at July 23, 2008 05:51 AM (1Lzs1)

33 These dems just keep longing for the good old days of 1932 and will do anything they can to get us back there. Then they think its obvious that socialism cures everything. Hey Buddy, can you spare a dime.?

Posted by: billypaintbrush at July 23, 2008 05:51 AM (0pt/8)

34 Must be close to election time, the pandering is getting pretty blatant.

Posted by: GarandFan at July 23, 2008 05:56 AM (eJ32B)

I drove a pickup as a choice of vehicle (until about 2 months ago), which got 14 MPG. I came to the conclusion that if I parked the truck (it's paid for, and not worth anything to anyone but me right now), and leased a gas miser, I could pay for it with the difference in gas cost. I leased a Honda Civic, expanded my mileage by 250%, paid $0 down, including tax, title, and license (they rolled it up into the lease), and now have a new vehicle with a warranty, and am still saving money over the previous gas costs.

Anyone can do that, if they have reasonable credit. Of course, the demographic being targetted for this handout doesn't have the credit - they have already maxed out the high interest credit cards buying the cigs, beer, and lottery mentioned above.

I mourn for the death of personal responsibility in our country....

Posted by: twons at July 23, 2008 06:21 AM (yyREZ)

I am with the calls for a Boston-style tea party, except we should throw Congresscritters into a body of water rather than tea.

Can we please stop pretending these people care what we think? This supposedly democratic republic is completely out of the hands of the people. Those producing are being punished and those leeching are being rewarded, all so votes can be bought. That's what welfare is: buying the public support of the poor, pandering to them, essentially letting them determine how our country is run. These people, who produce nothing and only degrade what is built up around them by others, they are the favored class of the ruling elite. People like us are expected to behave and ensure this system continues. The whole situation is assinine.

Posted by: Shillelagh at July 23, 2008 06:21 AM (Oz4Bj)

I can see it now, some "poor" guy is going to pull up next to me at the gas station, and fill his Escalade up using the 'gas stamps' on his way to the grocery store to buy more meat with food stamps than I can afford.

I'm sooooooooooo glad the big government is looking out for those l'ess' fortunate than I.

Posted by: todler at July 23, 2008 06:31 AM (Lf9uG)

We are reaching the point where there are no disadvantages to being unemployed. Looking forward to my permanent vacation.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 23, 2008 08:02 AM (5GNS+)

39

Let's just print more money and have fun!!!

Fucking morons.

Posted by: Rev Dr The Man E Buzz BigNuts at July 23, 2008 08:04 AM (sf4Oe)

But, let me guess...Baghdad Jim is against expansion of offshore drilling or ANWR drilling.

This is why you can't give lefties the keys to the economy--they can't even get in the door to ECON 101, much less pass it.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 23, 2008 08:28 AM (B+qrE)

41 What, its just a temporary proposal for the current crisis, its not like they'd keep it around forever...

HAHAHA, yeah right. Nothing the Government ever proposes is temporary. When I started paying my own bills and realized I was paying taxes for the Spanish-American War (passed in 1898, and no, I'm not that old) I learned something.

That tax wasn't intended to last 108+ years (and require 7 lawsuits to remove it)... but that's what happened. Gas Stamps would be a new permanent proposal like anything else, and removing it would be unlikely... so not doing it in teh first place seems a better plan.

Posted by: Gekkobear at July 23, 2008 08:53 AM (X0NX1)

42 I'm saddened that this asshole hasn't been tried for treason, convicted, and put up against a wall and shot. Saddened but not surprised. And now he wants to take from me to give to someone to fund their crack, meth, alcohol, and tobacco habits.

Thanks Jim! And thanks Nancy!

Fucking whores.

Posted by: cranky at July 23, 2008 09:10 AM (/aSPO)

43 In the future, only the poor will be able to afford gas. Of course, when gas is that expensive, we'll ALL be poor, because the economy will have evaporated.

The only thing we need is for Congress to stop the bullshit that's walling us off from greater supplies of our OWN oil.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at July 23, 2008 09:18 AM (XSmBC)

44

The Democrats are creating the world envisioned in the Road Warrior as we speak.

Posted by: Rev Dr The Man E Buzz BigNuts at July 23, 2008 09:43 AM (sf4Oe)

45 Road Warrior?!! I would ride with him.

Posted by: kevlarchick at July 23, 2008 11:13 AM (TNuqz)

46 They need gas money so they can commit more crimes.

Hey, times are tough, even in gangland.

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