Valentine's Eve Massacre a.k.a. "The Stimulus"

(cartoon credit: http://conservativepunk.com)

So how does February 14, 1929 connect with February 14, 2009? A massacre, one on a group of people violently; one on a group of people financially.

The connection, you ask? Valentines Day, the city of Chicago, and the number nine.

The Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929 is a date that has legendary status. During the Prohibition Era, a plan by the Capone gang to eliminate the Polish "Bugs" Moran gang ended up being the event that brought the attention of the federal government to Capone and his criminal activities.

Capone wasn't arrested for his involvement with the massacre, but rather in 1931, Capone was convicted of (drum roll please)...income tax evasion- sound familiar?

So what happened on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Valentine's Day Massacre? The 2009 "Stimulus Bill"; or as Rush Limbaugh name it, "The Porkulus Bill". Like the Capone gang, we have a group of thugs run by a guy from Chicago, involved with lots of people who evade their taxes, "massacre" us and our future children with a bill that will end up doing more to kill the fabric of what this country has stood on for years and bring us steps closer to socialism.

As Newsweek's recent cover story says "WE ARE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW". Isn't it ironic that this is what conservatives had been warning of for the past election cycle? Yet we were looked at like a bunch of conspiracy theorist nuts.

Socialism has never worked. There are more protest, riots, and unrest in countries where socialism is pushed then in our country because, in the end, people will stop working hard, when working hard doesn't pay them anymore than those who don't choose to work hard- or work at all. After a while the people will revolt, resist, or just plain and simply quit.

80 years ago, the government was investigating a bunch of tax evading thugs, who used scare tactics to get people to pay them money so they could use it the way they see fit. Today, the government IS a bunch of tax evading thugs, who use scare tactics to get people to pay them money so they can use it the way THEY see fit. Things have come full circle...