I love how you already fault anyone who supports this bill before it even has a chance to fail. But your right, ‘whatever’ is the sensible thing here. The bill was passed, its going through. And frankly the best thing you can hope for now is that it works.
I mean you do at least want it to succeed now that its passed don’t you?
I’d say it’s like your daughter coming home with a degree in economics: She’s spent a ton of money on something that may amount to nothing or may turn out to put her life on track for tons of future success, all depending on what she does with it.
I’d say it’s more like your daughter gets knocked up by her economics teacher who has never worked in the real world and the school has finally fired him because of his many illegitmate children with other students, oh and he has the hiv and he beats women when drunk. But boy can he put on a good lecture.
So maybe the bailout’s like your daughter comes home with her economics professor. One one hand she has a boyfriend with a job, on the other hand he’s an economics professor. :iobarf:
hey, once i get rich running CDCB related activities, then bored with golf and partying and banging broads, i’m going to be a part time economics professor
Summary
Do some of the Republican claims you’ve heard about the stimulus bill sound too awful to be true? We find a few that are wildly exaggerated or downright false.
It’s not true that the bill contains spending for “golf carts.” It has $300 million to buy fuel-efficient vehicles, some of which may be electric cart-like utility vehicles like those already in use on military bases and at other government facilities.
Money claimed to be for “remodeled federal offices” is mostly designated for upgrading buildings to “green” status through such things as thicker insulation and highly efficient lighting, not new drapes or paneling.
A widely repeated claim that $8 billion is set aside for a “levitating train” to Disneyland is untrue. That total is for unspecified high-speed rail projects, and some of it may or may not end up going to a proposed 300-mph “maglev” train connecting Anaheim, Calif., with Las Vegas.
There’s no money in the bill specified for butterfly parks, Frisbee golf courses or water slides, despite a GOP congressman’s claim that the bill “will fund” those projects. He culled those silly-sounding items from a list of 18,750 city projects that the U.S. Conference of Mayors cobbled together as examples of “shovel-ready” projects.
Don’t look to us to defend any particular item in the bill, or to criticize it. We will, however, call out politicians for delivering trumped-up descriptions of the bill’s contents.
The detailed analysis shows the lengths that conservatives are stretching the truth on this.