Let's just say, at this price tag, I sure hope it works:
If nothing else, the plan is a striking return of big government. It also symbolizes continuing partisanship, despite Mr. Obama’s promise of new cooperation. No House Republican voted for the measure, and the three in the Senate who did are viewed as renegades by their party’s leadership.
Whatever the result, future generations will get the bill.
“This
is so much money that if someone had begun spending $1 million a day —
$1 million every day — when Christ was born,” said Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, “we would not yet be in 2009 to the full cost of this bill.”
(emphasis added)
...and this, from the "smaller, faster" version of the bill.
We have doomed our kids to servitude to our government. By hocking their future earnings we will remove all incentive to produce, and hobble those who showed initiative.
Even the human spirit can not overcome the system we have used to enslave our future.
Cynicism doesn't describe what I feel.
Tim
Posted by: Timo | February 14, 2009 at 01:10 PM