Stimulus Package a Patronage System?

Today the blogoshperes are teeming with reports concerning the Stimulus Package and the Obama Administration’s desire to push it through as quickly as possible. Many are reporting that the new Stimulus Package is not an Economy Recovery Plan, but instead a front for a Democratic Party Patronage System. It is a plan to stop the two-party system, which in turn will ultimately affect free elections.

A recent video posted on the internet records a man called “Chicago Bob” who called into the Mike Savage radio show claiming to know the real purpose of the Stimulus Package; “It's not a stimulus package, it's not pork! It's a job patronage system.” “Chicago Bob” states:

"I really feel that what I'm gonna give you here is a smoking gun.

I'm a conservative Democrat and I'm from Chicago... and I, I feel that I was betrayed.

I was in a meeting after Obama got elected and I was told by the Democratic officials in that meeting that we were gonna give billions of dollars that was gonna come down the pike, our way, and what we were to do with it was we were supposed to do with it...

We are gonna build an army of Democratic patronage jobs.... gonna completely freeze up the Republicans forever and ever...

It's a job-capturing system, the same one they have in Chicago... everyone's asking 'why isn't that money being released until 2011 and 2012?'

Because it needs to be released at a time that's close to the election, so that they don't go blow the money and spend it. So they're gonna hold some back and that's where... the real bucks will be spent, right up close to the election.

...It's not a stimulus package, it's not pork! It's a job patronage system... there's gonna be more [people] working for the Democrats in a patronage system than the United States Army...

And the jobs are gonna be camouflaged in a million different ways, whether you're workin' for the city, or workin' for the state, but when the election comes around, you're gonna be obligated to go out and get that vote... ...like ACORN, except the jobs will be larger scale. I just wanted to say that, because I was really depressed when they told me, because I really thought they'd be different.

If I've done nothing else in my life, I've informed what that bill really is... it's a job patronage system."

I’m not sure as of yet, what to make of “Chicago Bob.” But, his claims seem to reveal to me that he is one of many in this nation who fear the days to come. Now, I believe every one should have a little fear. For instance, fear of going into unknown places; or, fear of trying dangerous things. That type of fear keeps one vigilant and alert. However, we (believers) are not to fear man, or the things that man can do; that type of fear is not good for us. Our trust should always be in the L-RD; He is our strength. And He is our shield. The L-RD is our hope and He is our refuge. A preacher once told me; “Son, there is no refuge from G-d, only refuge in G-d…, fear G-d! There is nothing that man (or this world) can do to me to make me fear it, more than I fear G-d.” Amen!

“For G-d has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline” – 2 Timothy 1:7

Shalom.