the time has come . . .
I look forward to the coming days as Nebraskans totally absorb what Ben Nelson has done to the people of this state and nation in 2009. Let's review his grand legislative record:
1. STIMULUS - lead Senator who worked out the compromise that led to the "Stimulus" bill getting passed.
Cost to taxpayers: $787 BILLION
Cost to workers: Unemployment STIMULATED from 8.1% prior to passage to 10% in November
15.4 MILLION now unemployed at the end of November
Millions more that have given up looking and not counted in this figure
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Pork projects on steroids
2. 2009 Omnibus Bill(completed last spring)
Cost to taxpayers: $410 BILLION
Your Tax Dollars at Work: 9,000 pork projects wasting over $5-billion
3. 2010 Spending Bill(completed Dec. 13th)
Cost to taxpayers: $1.1 TRILLION
Your Tax Dollars at Work: over 10,000 pork projects wasting over $11-billion
To Make Matters Worse: In this bill, Nelson approved an 8% INCREASE in spending on top of the $311-BILLION "emergency" spending increase he got passed in the Stimulus bill in February. Let me repeat that. In February, Ben Nelson got the votes together that passed the Stimulus bill. In Nelson's bill, he INCREASED the budgets of the Federal Govt. by $311-BILLION and now a mere 10 months later he has agreed to increase those same budgets 8% on top of the $311-billion increase. What checkbook is this guy writing from???
4. Debt Limit
Nelson will vote to increase our debt limit by $1.8 TRILLION the largest increase in one single year in the history of our country. Now that's something to be proud of . . .
5. Obamacare
These are really (sarcastic) proud achievements for our esteemed Democrat Senator and now, now he is leading the charge to destroy the greatest medical care in the world and forcing our older Nebraskans into a rationed-3rd world care system.
Folks, in my opinion, 2012 is too long to wait to rid ourselves of this man. Since Ben Nelson has decided that the wishes of the great majority of Nebraskans is irrelevant, then I think it's time to make Ben Nelson irrelevant. And the way to do that is
RECALL PETITION DRIVE