A Few Thoughts about the Stimulus
I havent wrote much about President Obama since he was elected mainly ive just been sitting back watching to see what he would do. I cant say ive been happy with everything he has done lately but i do have to say he has managed to at least get things going. The first things that caught my eye and allowed me to give a hat tip to him was his continueing refusal to allow the republican economics of the past into the new stimulus bill. While unlike others i dont have that warped view that everything Republican is bad but i do know that thier tax cut system of the past has failed because I see the evidence everytime another worker is laid off. Personally i prefer a bill thats been hammered out by Republicans and Democrats, why you may ask considering i think Republican economics is such a failure, the answer is easy, Republicans have a tendency to cut the little people off at the knees often forgettting they are the bread and butter of this country, Democrats on the other hand tend to want to coddle the little people often setting up programs that actually set people up to fail simply because the programs dont allow for transistion from government help back to the work force. When you get both of them togeather and can actually get them to compromise you usually end up with just the right amount of empathy and tough love.
Right now the stimulus plan is being hammered out in the Senate, its basically been handed over to Moderate Democrats and Republicans and since if first appeared on the table it may actually get somewhere and be what this country needs it to be a program that spends but spends in the right places. I found out this morning its went from the original 800 billion dollar plan to well over a 900 billion dollar plan since the senate got its hands on it. Ive looked over the stimulus bill from one end to the other and even in my moderate estimate we can and should cut at least 100 billion out of it thats completely unnecessary spending with no added benefit and does nothing but cater to special interests.
If Republicans and Democrats can actually come to an agreement on the stimulus then thats part of the change i voted for but if either side pulls a my way or the highway approach, then its just more of the same junk weve been seeing for years.
