A trillion dollars, and no jobs? Give me a billion — just one single little tiny billion — and I can get twenty guys adding a new wing to my house in under a month. Twenty guys will get work directly. An architect will have to draw up the plans. The county will get money for approving them. I’ll be forever paying extra property taxes, helping to educate children in my community, so that they can have more-productive futures. And they’ll pay more in taxes, too.
Timber suppliers will get extra business, and maybe take on an extra employee or two. Same with people who make copper and nails and travertine tiles and sauna rooms big enough for, say, half a dozen strippers and myself all at once.
And so that you won’t even need to thank me for my efforts, I’ll just pocket any leftover money, mmmkay?
THIS is why government can’t tax and spend its way out of our problem. They don’t have the answers. We do. And if our own, private answers happen to involve giant saunas and clothing removal engineers, well, that’s our own little pursuit of happiness.
Their “trust me” card is getting rather worn. They’ve already dumped over $300 billion on bailouts and no one knows where the money went. Now, they want another trillion dollars of pork and political payoffs and expect us to just trust them that good things will come from it. Yeah, sure. Pull the other finger.
Thank God my new Clothing Removal Engineer (Certified) certification will come in handy. Thanks Cisco!!
A billion here, a billion there . . .
Hey, Repubs,
Nice to see you back on the “hold the spending” bandwagon. Please grace us all by telling just where you f&@#ers have been since ’01!
CR –
Republican voters did much to kick out the Republican Congress in ’06, because we were sick of the hypocrisy on spending.
If only liberal voters had even a scrap of that kind of integrity, we might not be stuck with Pelosi, Reid & Co.
Oh, wait — voting for stupid, wasteful spending is exactly what you wanted and are getting. Kudos.
I miss the OLD design.
Can we have a martini glass in the header… for old times sake?
“voting for stupid, wasteful spending is exactly what you wanted and are getting. Kudos.”
Stephen,
It is pretty clear that all we’re going to get is stupid, wasteful spending regardless of who has the wheel. I’d rather it be from the party that holds no pretenses of being anything but irresponsible with the public purse. The people who practice restraint in theory only can get bent.
CR –
Again, you’ve missed the point. Amazingly, you’ve missed your own point. (I’m sure there’s a term for that, but I don’t know what it is. Probably Latin, though.)
You put the blame on us “Repubs.” Well, conservatives and libertarians (I’d be the latter) helped kick our own bastards out back in ’06. We did NOT put up with their crap, as you seem to believe. They did indeed “get bent,” because people like me told them to get that way.
As a result, we have some small token chance of getting the Republican party to reform itself if it ever wants to win again.
You, on the other hand, seem willing to do nothing — and admit you like it that way.
Again: Kudos.
I agree with Joel–can there at least be a giant martini for those babes to dance around?
Let’s see… 350 Billion in Tarp and we’ve lost track af all but about 136 billion.
If we take the next 350 billion at about a billion a day (there must be at least 15 Federal holidays we need to let these poor overworked souls rest on). Take that billion EACH DAY. Split it 50 ways to 20 Million (basic Powerball payout) and use the taxpayer rolls of each state for a lottery.
Talk about some “bottom up” stimulation and I got some jingle in my pocket that says the Tabloids can keep track of where every penny ends up. Especially the truly STUPID money.
Make it Federal tax free, but let the states get their cuts and solve O’Plenty of budget woes while providing the rest of us with entertainment at the supermarket checkout (you know you read the headlines too).
I think CR is experiencing cognitive dissonance at the idea of not being a party drone.