Economic Stimulation
Never mind the inflated job counts and pay raises counted as jobs saved. I’m still stuck on the subsidies to social service agencies counting as economic stimulus part. That’s not economic stimulus. That’s welfare. AP.
I realize in the $787 billion scheme of things, $323 million is nothing. I believe the president of the United States actually said something to that effect. I still think it’s a lot of dough. How about, instead of shovelling in the form of pay raises and bennies to Obama voters, throwing it at some actual productive, revenue-producing sector of the economy. I dunno, manufacturing. Some hapless industry that actually hires people without social work degrees to use resources and other manufacturers’ products to make stuff, which they’ll sell to produce revenue. Something like that. Here’s an idea. Dole it out to militry contractors to refit the military. Democratic donor contractors, if you have to be a hack about it.
I’m a little late to today’s economic-stimulus exasperation party. Sorry. I was busy working at my unstimulated private-sector job, which uses pulp, ink, trucks, pens, notebooks and a lot of eletronics plus electricity and employs hundreds of taxpayers directly and indirectly to tell people how the hacks are trying to shaft them in Boston. It was great. I enjoyed it. Even though, far from looking for or getting any support, we’ve had to fight the government over simple things like the freedom to enter business relationships with other news organizations that might have made us more financially viable. Thank you, Ted Kennedy, liberal lion.
Related, not different, Surber: “$4,500 to save 1 mpg.” Ford F150 owners trading in for new F150s were the top Clunker swap. Hey, at least they were buying American. And everyone knows, the sooner we burn up all that oil, the less crap we’ll have to take from everyone.
Fundamentally related, deeply undifferent, via Gateway: “V” TV series mocks Obamism.
That’s deep hurtfulness.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:01 am on Thursday, November 5, 2009
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November 5th, 2009 at 1:33 am
[...] Jules Crittenden does: “Never mind the inflated job counts and pay raises counted as jobs saved. I’m still stuck on the subsidies to social service agencies counting as economic stimulus part. That’s not economic stimulus. That’s welfare. AP.” [...]
November 5th, 2009 at 10:17 am
We could have spent the money on infrastructure, tech, and science, and at the least broken even over the long term, and gained something real from the debt incurred to pay for this. Instead we did the economic equivalent of burning cash to light cigars for Obama and his cronies.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Democratic donor contractors, if you have to be a hack about it.
Are there any?