My objection to the stim is that it takes an enormous sum of money and...just spends it. There is no national goal attached, no priority and no cogent explanation.
What I want to know is, after spending a trillion dollars, what will we HAVE for it?
Will we develop an alternative energy economy? Or a national high speed rail system? Or Health care for everyone?
Not in this plan, not as far as I can see.
Economists will tell us that the whole idea is just to "spend" however this offends me. Spending for the sake of spending--hmmm, sounds real familiar. Didn't we just go through a decade of doing exactly that? Spending with no purpose? I understand that we should "spend" but to spend without purpose seems like more of the same nonsense that got us into this mess.
The spending bill should, while executing its function as a stimulus, also re-affirm the core values that made America a great country.
Because it does not do this, and instead looks to most of us like a piñata--a pastiche of everyone's favorite spending plans-- it offends the very people who are expected to pay for it.
The middle class will not forget that the bankers who got us into this mess are being rescued and those who do not even pay income taxes are getting tax rebates. We know that the house flippers and home equity junkies haven't lost anything--they never had anything to begin with.
We will support this stimulus because we are convinced that America needs it to survive. But in the name of decency, could the politicians just grant us the courtesy of allowing America to just HAVE something worthwhile after going on the largest spending spree in history?
What I want to know is, after spending a trillion dollars, what will we HAVE for it?
Will we develop an alternative energy economy? Or a national high speed rail system? Or Health care for everyone?
Not in this plan, not as far as I can see.
Economists will tell us that the whole idea is just to "spend" however this offends me. Spending for the sake of spending--hmmm, sounds real familiar. Didn't we just go through a decade of doing exactly that? Spending with no purpose? I understand that we should "spend" but to spend without purpose seems like more of the same nonsense that got us into this mess.
The spending bill should, while executing its function as a stimulus, also re-affirm the core values that made America a great country.
Because it does not do this, and instead looks to most of us like a piñata--a pastiche of everyone's favorite spending plans-- it offends the very people who are expected to pay for it.
The middle class will not forget that the bankers who got us into this mess are being rescued and those who do not even pay income taxes are getting tax rebates. We know that the house flippers and home equity junkies haven't lost anything--they never had anything to begin with.
We will support this stimulus because we are convinced that America needs it to survive. But in the name of decency, could the politicians just grant us the courtesy of allowing America to just HAVE something worthwhile after going on the largest spending spree in history?
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