Stimulus Package
2 Feb2009
I know – you’re sick of hearing about it and so am I. And I’m sick of hearing about it from both sides. Seriously, to have to watch John Kerry get his butt kicked again on Meet The Press (this time by Kay Bailey Hutchinson) is just unbearable. GET THAT MAN OFF THE TV!!!! He should never speak in public again.
And this bill is FULL of nonsense. Granted, I have not been able to find a website yet that listed everything that is in the bill. But some of what I have read reminds me why I hate Dems as well. $650 million for digital TV conversion? $75 million for smoking cessation programs? $400 million for HIV and chlamydia testing? Do we really need those things RIGHT NOW?! It’s a pork barrel fiesta! All those “feel good” programs they wanted all these years – finally home at last. It’s an absolute disgrace.
HOWEVER – I reckon that pork to only be about 30-40% of the total package. The rest is of the bill is useful. The rest of the bill is necessary. But more important – the rest of the bill will benefit me! I got nothing out of the last two bailouts – not a single check to not spend. The last 8 years only saw my taxes go up (thanks AMT!). The previous administration did squat for me except make all those wealthy people spend their extra money recklessly, invest in phony deals and collapse the entire system. They might as well have been snorting cocaine with all that trickle-down-private-investment capital the Reps moan about in their sleep every night. They don’t get that money again. Not now.
I say – let Reps bitch and moan. They’re not wrong. It’s just that their options are worse and they do not benefit me. And -right now? – that’s all there is.
- In: Politics
4 Responses to Stimulus Package
Mike
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:42 am
I am all for the tax cuts and spending infrastructure spending to create jobs..Get rid of all the social program garbage until the economy is stabilized. Just think of it like the economy has eaten a large pile of junk food. It now feels ill and needs to take a giant, painful #2. Once that is done, it will be able to eat right again and get healthy. It sounds simplistic, but it makes sense.
mburma
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I agree. Social programs are not a priority and the Dems have got to step back.
BTW – why can’t I email you? It keeps getting rejected.
Mike
February 4th, 2009 at 6:02 am
Don’t know…it should be mnolan@ncc.commnet.edu
Tommy
February 4th, 2009 at 6:56 am
While several people have told me that this would never work for various and complicated reasons that i perfectly understand, it would be nice for a moment to think about the government just handing out suitcases of cash to everyone in america. The suitcase industry would thrive and all of america would be happy until they realized that the million or the billion dollars they were just issued was issued to everyone and that money is now worth about what you used to have.