Just for discussion, let us accept 100% of the claims by liberals and Democrats of the damage President George W. Bush inflicted on our liberties. How difficult have they been to undo? Supposedly illegal wiretaps – stopped within 100 days by the new administration. Claims of torture – stopped within 100 days. Detainees at Gitmo – soon to be released. And so on.

Now, consider what it will take to undo President Barack Obama’s damage to our liberties. He and his liberal Democrats have taken over control of banks; with the unions they will own the U.S. auto industry; they have burdened generations of Americans with debt. Even if conservatives and Republicans took total control of Congress in the next election and won the presidency in 2012, they could not undo the damage in 100 days – 100 years perhaps.

And the liberals and Democrats have just started, there is still much on their agenda and none of it will be easy to undo.

Living under tyranny as liberals and Democrats claimed about President Bush ended after eight years. Overcoming the oppression being inflicted by those same liberals and Democrats will take generations.

The “Inter-Generational Wealth Transfer Act” aka “the Stimulus bill” needs a complete rethinking. 

The Framers of the Constitution intentionally designed a central government that was slow. They saw a power that could respond quickly as a threat to liberty. 

They were right and wrong. Even under the most dire of circumstances, for example the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the government could not mount a serious response for almost two years.

Because of this and the timing of November’s election, the Federal government has been slow to response to the economic crisis. Now, as they are planning another response, “the Stimulus”, they are already too late.

While much pain is being and will be endured, the crisis has to some extend passed and to another extent evolved. Look at Goldman Sachs already planning on repaying the government, or the drop in home prices which has caused a predictable increase in home sales.

Government deficit spending is not needed; it risks inflation and is just a transfer of wealth from the future (GenX and GenY and their kids) to the present (mostly baby-boomers).

What Congress should pass and the President sign is a bill providing the Federal government with the tools it may need in the future to quickly address an economic crisis. This could include provisions for government spending, but not specific spending now. It should be written so that the President would have certain authorities, subject to an up or down vote by Congress on enacting each as the President requests.