"Pork Rules" in Obama plan
 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1233...html#printMode

If this is the "Golden Chance" to save America....we're in deep crapola!

it must be wednesday.

Timm, would you please just create one, "I Hate Obama, Everything He Does Sucks!" thread, and you can just post on it endlessly?

excellent idea!!

While timm can occasionally be a little radical he happens to have a very good point here. This is a disgraceful piece of pork if we were rolling in money. As a economic stimulus it is close to criminal.

Ello Elle.

no telling how many pork projects get tacked onto bills-by both sides of the aisle. it adds up to hundred of millions or so every year.
next time one of your pols comes back, gives a speech extolling some money he's brought home-will you applaud or question? it's a lot easier to spend someone else's money-but we're ALWAYS the someone else. that money isn't free, we gave it all to the govt, and they choose how to spend it.

There are a number of mistakes in that article...
or maybe an attempt to deceive.

All in all though jobs do need to be created.
But the jobs created must provide some useful
service or produce something useful. We dont want
to pay people for just piling up rocks. And we need to
take a real hard look at how many of these jobs created
are short term.

There.
AHH feel better.

Fixing roads and bridges is something that might might help if it was poured in fast. Everything else smells like pork.

Strictly American steel.

Care to enlighten us on what?

I will start with the most obvious one...

"No recipient . . . shall use such funds to provide financial assistance to students to attend private elementary or secondary schools." Horrors: Some money might go to nonunion teachers.

Like this is a bad thing???
Private schools dont have to play by federal rules, why give them federal money? Private schools pick and choose what students that take, public schools take on all comers. And the 2nd largest educator statewise, is Texas. There are NO unions in Texas... There is no such thing as a Texas teacher striking (which imo is absurd anyway...) California, the largest education state, does not have many very extensive strikes that I have seen.

I got more...

If ya want.

Basketball calls...off to the gym.

Stimulus
 

Totally agree. Printing $/borrowing to spend in this fashion succeeds in doing two things for sure: creates more government AND sinks us deeper in debt.

You are confusing your opinion with facts. The fact is that this was a total union concession. Why shouldn't all schools and its students and teachers get to feed at the federal trough? Shouldn't all schools that are part of the American education system get to try to improve?

It is a joke of a package that will do nothing but eventually cause the inflation that is sure to come to be worse. The govt is very poor at creating anything but more govt.
The biggest problem I have always had with Bush is that he sabotaged his own tax cuts with excessive govt spending. Now we get the real misery of much more govt spending and phony tax cuts which are actually tax rebates. The only stimulation here is the fuc king the Americans who have jobs and businesses are going to get.

the apologists for all things Barackovich
 

70% of the money that goes to government
never leaves government

I called my congressman. I don't think he really cares that most Americans, let alone his constituents, are against it. They're not being honest about what is in it or if they have even read it.

32 new govt agencies created by this stimulus bill!

From what I've heard, building a new infrastructure wouldn't hit the economy for 2yrs......not exactly what we need or what we're looking for here.