The Fierce Urgency of Pork

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

we've never done anything like this before, in far worse circumstances and now you're going to tell me that because unemployment is up to 7% we have to lose our heads and spend obscence amounts of money we don't have wherever we can?

you still haven't told me who is supposed to pay for it.

$937 billion divided by 138million taxpayers = $6,789 per taxpayer.
are you ready to cough up your part of it now? or do we just keep our eyes shut and hope that someone else deals with it later?

Actually I have no idea if this massive spending will work.
Nobody does. I do have a feeling if we just sit back
and do nothing we will be in deep. And unemployment
will not stay at 7% doing nothing. I personally have
no idea exactly what needs to be done.

But doing nothing...
It might work. But from what I read
and understand, it will not. Some of this stuff
is very complicated. So I am personally a bit perplexed
over what needs to be done, if anything.

I understand where you guys are coming from.
And I guarantee the 150 billion on education
will NOT be well spent in its entirety. I just see
places that it is needed because I live it. I dont
even teach in a lab room. They are too expensive.
Chemistry gets first dibbs, Biology second... as it should be.
I move from room to room. No room in our school
is ever open. I work out of a corner of a closet.
Teachers battle over computers to input grades
and write stuff. But we forge ahead. It could be
a lot worse.