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Termyn8or -> RE: What's Been Stimulated? (7/3/2009 9:29:02 AM)
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I have refrained from this thread thusfar because I could think of nothing of any substance. I had assumed that's what you were asking for, either to support your point or get some alternative input, the reason matters not. However there are some areas..........
These mainly have to do with pet or pork type projects, as well as local projects that were already supposed to be funded. However just about every every state, city, town, whatever seemed to have a hand out for some of the boodle. Some of this crap is "beautification" or something like that, largely nonproductive. How many of these now extra-funded projects will now include planting flowers or commissioning stupid statues for downtown areas ? For the worst of worst examples, look at Cleveland Ohio. Our "FREE" stamp and that stupid thing that looks like it was once monkey bars in a playground but got hit by a truck. We should have to vote locally on shit like this, and if it passes then fund it locally. Already funded road construction will probably include bike trails, that one could be up for debate, it could do some good, but still nothing substantial. Nothing I am hearing does anything significant for the economy per se, and will simply be a band aid.
Let's say the city gets $4M. Well their attitude is that it is a drop in the bucket. To form a metaphor here - at no extra charge - these people have apparently never put a bucket out in the rain and seen it filled by drops. (raindrops) So $4M doesn't matter, after all a thousand million is only a billion and we are printing trillions. So what's the fuss ?
Well you and I haven't really had to cut back, but cutting back on a personal level could include less PPV movies every month. Oh, it's only ten bucks for the movie so it doesn't matter right ? However somehow people forget that there are usually 30 days in a month. OK, I don't care about $300 a month because I make enough.
But wait, we are not making ANYTHING, we are borrowing all that money, so how can it make any sense ? When you see a welfare recipient buying three or more lottery tickets every day, what goes through your mind ? You see them, they use their food card to get the gang a bunch of junkfood and then proceed over to the lottery window and pull out a fifty, and get no change.
Well in a way this country is on welfare, as in borrowing money.
Maybe what we need is a food stamp type program for the government, in other words, someone else allocates some of the money.
Incidentally I must mention that the need for a food stamp (or card) program is totally reprehensible to me. These people would watch their own starve for lottery tickets, cellphones they never use for anything good, cable TV, gas for joyrides, not to mention drugs and alcohol. If this is what we have become, is it possible that the government really DOES represent us ?
[Sorry to sem-irant on your thread, but at least i didn't get partisan]
But back to the pork, all the road projects are temporary. Usually they offer about 2-4 years employment, to not very many people as much as they may pad the payroll with their ilk. When the project is over, what then ?
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