:eekno: Someone here agrees with me politically?!?!? h:



I don't criticize policy that addresses local issues that are in need of attention. What I have beef with special-interest-wise is the hundreds of millions of dollars funding for abortions overseas, contraceptive funding for the lower and middle class... as well as cash for Hollywood studios, building ATV tracks and hand-outs to political groups like ACORN that promoted voter fraud in efforts to get BHO in office. NONE of those things will stimulate the economy. All of these things are Democratic special-interests that I'm sure both sides could disagree on.

Do highly-paid Hollywood actors and directors need more money when their audience can't afford to see their movies? How many lower-class minorities ride an ATV? Are the groups that studied contraception helping the economy the same ones that pushed for abstinence-only campaigns? What basis is there for these policies? I don't see any of these things creating jobs in the private sector that will make any kind of difference on Wall Street or Main Street, and those are the kind of things that I think need to be under scrutiny.

It's a lot of pork, and I hope it fails. Why? Because the gov't stepping in with a slow injection of cash (a day late and a dollar short of the crisis) says that the government has no faith in its people to make adjustments, become competitive, and to empower themselves to overcome these times. When gov't says we're going to spend our way out of debt, you have to ask yourself how that makes any sense when it's what got us here in the first place. This approach teaches constituents that government won't let failure fail no matter what happens, and people become complacent and lazy knowing that they won't "fail" no matter what it costs them. That-in-itself is failure.

The reason why Bush's stimulus checks didn't work was this. OPEC heard the government was giving out cash, and raised the price of oil to $150 a barrel so they could have the vast majority of it. When the cash ran out, where did the price of oil go? I can tell you where the money went and it wasn't into our economy... but the stock market took a while after that to crash. After the wall street crash, the price of oil dropped. We got robbed blind, man.