RightField
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It seems to me that the "idea" of a stimulus package has morphed into something completely different. I have not read the bill and haven't been paying close attention to it, but haven't seen any writeups about it in the newspaper either (what happened to "transparency in government" that Obama promised?).
From the short snippets I've heard on the news, it is now is a wet dream of liberal unrestricted spending for any and every program ever dreamed of by liberals.... and "stimulus" is a loosely defined word applied to it even though real "stimulus" doesn't seem to be behind it. One of the things they're doing with it is buying lots and lots of condoms for distribution, for example. I also heard that there were going to be new training programs, new social programs and large increases in funding for many social spending programs. All of these represent long term commitments that won't "go away" in a year or two or even 5, they're long-term claims on the productivity of our kids that aren't necessarily the best way to create growth and wealth in the future for our kids.
He originally talked about rebuilding our infrastructure. I can understand building a bridge that would be planned and then built and won't require any continued funding after the bridge is completed, but I can't understand the expansion of social programs that represents a significant and persistant increase in government spending for time immemorial.
It was nice that he stuck in a couple "bones" for the Republicans to keep them at the table and believing that there's some spirit of bipartisanship, but that irritates me because our Congressmen and women should be looking at every line item and saying "Is this the best use of our taxpayer money?"...and..."will this stimulate the economy and create jobs more than other alternatives?" rather than "this gives me some spending in my district so my constituants won't complain". Providing lots and lots of condoms probably leads to lots of "stimulus" behind closed doors, but not the kind we're looking for to bring the country back to economic strength.
There should be infrastructure investment and it should be things like bridges, expanded roads, rebuilding schools (that really need it), maybe some for competitions for new technology breakthroughs and things like that, not condoms and new spending on overbloated ineffectual union-dominated school programs that put the bulk of their new spending into hiring more "administration" that always seems to have familial relations with people already there or in politics.
Also, lets make it "transparent" so that we can see that it's not spirited away in a wave of corruption. This huge spending initiative is like publishing the long-lost map to Blackbeard's treasure in a national newspaper. Every scoundrel who can walk will be after it and, in the end, it will be best for all of us if the money is spent effectively and not hidden away in William Jefferson's freezer.
From the short snippets I've heard on the news, it is now is a wet dream of liberal unrestricted spending for any and every program ever dreamed of by liberals.... and "stimulus" is a loosely defined word applied to it even though real "stimulus" doesn't seem to be behind it. One of the things they're doing with it is buying lots and lots of condoms for distribution, for example. I also heard that there were going to be new training programs, new social programs and large increases in funding for many social spending programs. All of these represent long term commitments that won't "go away" in a year or two or even 5, they're long-term claims on the productivity of our kids that aren't necessarily the best way to create growth and wealth in the future for our kids.
He originally talked about rebuilding our infrastructure. I can understand building a bridge that would be planned and then built and won't require any continued funding after the bridge is completed, but I can't understand the expansion of social programs that represents a significant and persistant increase in government spending for time immemorial.
It was nice that he stuck in a couple "bones" for the Republicans to keep them at the table and believing that there's some spirit of bipartisanship, but that irritates me because our Congressmen and women should be looking at every line item and saying "Is this the best use of our taxpayer money?"...and..."will this stimulate the economy and create jobs more than other alternatives?" rather than "this gives me some spending in my district so my constituants won't complain". Providing lots and lots of condoms probably leads to lots of "stimulus" behind closed doors, but not the kind we're looking for to bring the country back to economic strength.
There should be infrastructure investment and it should be things like bridges, expanded roads, rebuilding schools (that really need it), maybe some for competitions for new technology breakthroughs and things like that, not condoms and new spending on overbloated ineffectual union-dominated school programs that put the bulk of their new spending into hiring more "administration" that always seems to have familial relations with people already there or in politics.
Also, lets make it "transparent" so that we can see that it's not spirited away in a wave of corruption. This huge spending initiative is like publishing the long-lost map to Blackbeard's treasure in a national newspaper. Every scoundrel who can walk will be after it and, in the end, it will be best for all of us if the money is spent effectively and not hidden away in William Jefferson's freezer.
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