Friday, July 10, 2009
Half a Viagra or an economic enema: Take your pick
So Dems screwed up the first stimulus bill, which was obvious at the time, and now some are advocating a second stab at it? No thanks. Dems weren’t serious five months ago. There’s no reason to think they’re more serious today. The vast majority of the stimulus money already approved hasn’t been spent yet. They should go back and take out all the “candy” they mixed in, as Warren Buffett described it, and earmark it for more serious projects, programs and tax cuts. But they won’t do that because the stimulus bill was never really was about economic stimulus.
Hey, look: Dems want to raise taxes by $600 billion to ‘reform’ the health-care system. It’s to ‘reduce health-care costs’ and to 'help the economy.' Of course. ... Do you think they have a clue that pumping money into the system at one end (the stimulus) and taking money out of the system at the other end (new health-care taxes) is sort of counter-productive? Forget Viagra. We're talking about an economic enema. ...
So Dems screwed up the first stimulus bill, which was obvious at the time, and now some are advocating a second stab at it? No thanks. Dems weren’t serious five months ago. There’s no reason to think they’re more serious today. The vast majority of the stimulus money already approved hasn’t been spent yet. They should go back and take out all the “candy” they mixed in, as Warren Buffett described it, and earmark it for more serious projects, programs and tax cuts. But they won’t do that because the stimulus bill was never really was about economic stimulus.
Hey, look: Dems want to raise taxes by $600 billion to ‘reform’ the health-care system. It’s to ‘reduce health-care costs’ and to 'help the economy.' Of course. ... Do you think they have a clue that pumping money into the system at one end (the stimulus) and taking money out of the system at the other end (new health-care taxes) is sort of counter-productive? Forget Viagra. We're talking about an economic enema. ...
