Doug: the stimulus package is shaping up to be just another welfare program, and not just for the “poor”.
It is that, and kickback time to the NGO’s and the unions.
What really needs to be articulated is that there is not an “infrastructure crisis”. There. is. no. problem. I keep trying to get an honest answer of Democrat functionaries on this, and all I ever get is the same thing that we get out of trolls here: “A bridge collapsed in Minneapolis”. There. is. no. infrastructure. issue. This is just another giveme to the unions and connected contruction firms. It is another bubble in the making.
So is the “green tech industry”, that is just a replay of the tech bubble of the nineties, only this time it will not be driven by markets and private monies, but public monies and government diktat. It will be a complete fraud.
The “entrepreneurs” and “VC’s”, involved this will almost all be highly politically connected Democrats or their children. You can take that to the bank.
I sat in a largish presentation by a major Silicon Valley VC firm (just about everyone here would know the name immediately) and it was chuck full of Democrats. I do not mean Democrat voters, I mean high level Democrat Party insiders. I could find only one non-liberal in the bunch.
And the way these so called “venture capitalists” were talking about public fund were just scary. They were just salivating at the thought of that gravy train. Oh, and these “tech geniuses” all were true believers in AGW.
It was like going to a well heeled chiropractor’s convention or something — all that earnest and loony pseudo-intellectualism and pseudo-science coming out of self acclaimed professional.
Of course, none of the this will work. Not the infrastructure gambit, not the “green tech industry”, none of it. It is just a rip off of the nation; and the misapplication of capital at this time will be devastating.
It is pure gangsterism. There is no difference here between them than the PRC Communist Party members.
What is wrong with the GOP? People will understand this stuff; they need to get it out there.
