stimulus package

bismark · Post by **bismark** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:38 am

"I don't understand from my conservative friends, building a road, building a school, helping to get health care, that's wasteful spending. But that war in Iraq, that's going to cost us over a trillion dollars, yeah, I wish we hadn't done that we would have been in a lot better shape fiscally....The problem is that we look at spending and say, 'Oh, don't spend on highways. Don't spend on health care. But let's build Cold War weapons to defeat the Soviet Union when we don't need them. Let's have hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars going to the military without a check.'" -Rep. Frank

blah, this country makes me really sad sometimes.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:14 am

Not to mention the trillions spent to bailout banks and other businesses without any oversight.

Maybe the Government is really just trying to commit suicide? That is the only reasonable explanation for their behavior.

Tao · Post by **Tao** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:56 am

Nanti-SARRMM wrote:That is the only reasonable explanation for their behavior.

An action that is inexplicable to one, or obfuscated by the masses, is not inherently without explanation.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:02 pm

Tao wrote: An action that is inexplicable to one, or obfuscated by the masses, is not inherently without explanation.

Yeah, that is true. That was just my personal feeling of what the Government has been doing lately.

The Senate votes on the stimulus package today, right?

Quiet Lamb · Post by **Quiet Lamb** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:35 pm

It seems like he's saying, "Well, you got to spend money on your toy, now it's our turn to buy our toy!" For goodness sake, this isn't some game. We would love to repair roads and build new schoolhouses, but do you think that is really the best thing to do to climb out of a recession? I mean, I love the arts to an unhealthy level sometimes, but I wouldn't invest in them when we're suffering so much. When becoming cultured starts to put food on the table, let me know.

Werf_Must · Post by **Werf_Must** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:46 pm

well the point isn't to get the roads repaired, it is to make some jobs so that people have money. Making a bunch of extra secretarial positions in the government or something would be a blatant waste of money. At least tax payers are getting something out of this and it will provide jobs for a lot of people being laid off