Let's be blunt. There has been no - repeat, no - analysis of anything about this "stimulus bill," because there has been NO TIME ALLOTTED for any comprehensive review of the line items and their value, if any at all.
The average shopper spends more time determining whether a $100 purchase is worth the money than what our elected representatives are doing on the $891,000,000,000 stimulus bill. Where's the common sense here?
I really don't care how many people voted for Pres. Obama - it was not a coronation to provide America with an omnipotent monarch. Wanting the economy to get better, and having an administration concerned that it does get better, does not mean he and his posse are to throw away COMMON SENSE and prudent logic before committing $891,000,000,000 to a spending plan which has no detailed review by those who are supposed to protect the taxpayer from run-rampant spending.
With a national population of 300 million, this stimulus package equates to $2,970 per every man, woman and child, whether they pay taxes or not! Does that really make any sense?
So, now we see all of the Congressfolk line up like pigs at the trough to pork their next election and see that their key supporters and contributors get paid off. We can really be "proud" of this! Darned little oversight over generalized spending based on to-be-determined politically-charged packages.
Here's for a 75% flushing of Congressional incumbents in 2010.
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