You think investing $250 Billion in internet infrastructure is a wise idea? Your conservative brethren were gnashing their teeth at the very idea of spending anything on that recently. And frankly I think that is way too much for that one project.
The stimulus package is doing a lot of different things like what you are talking about. Why is that worse than investing in just one thing? The odds sound better to me that you don't put all your eggs in one basket and stimulate several different sectors of the market rather than just construction.
I honestly don't see why people think if it isn't something like construction it isn't stimulus. Hasn't our economy moved away from manufacturing and things of that nature progressively more every year? Why should we only stimulate that sector of the economy when our economy has so much broader of a base? It just doesn't make sense to me.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
