For the Stimupalooza was that giving the money back to the citizens would be “wasteful” because we don’t know “how” to properly spend it.
And anyone who disagreed was just a bitter clinger.
Biden says some waste inevitable part of stimulus
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged on Tuesday that some waste is inevitable in the spending of a $787 billion economic stimulus package, in a characteristically blunt assessment.
“We know some of this money is going to be wasted,” Biden said during a roundtable discussion in New York with business leaders aimed at promoting the two-year stimulus plan.
The package was approved by the Democratic-led Congress in February over the objections of most Republicans, who were concerned about the potential for wasteful spending and because it will add billions of dollars to U.S. deficit spending.
Giving every citizen $10,000 to put in a jar and bury it in their backyard would have been a smarter idea.
How about THIS dash of cold water in the face of all that “the economy’s coming around” joy:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12509448?source=rss
Keep ratholing bullets, beans and gold bullion.
What’s most irritating about the notion that some waste is inevitable, is once you accept that, massive waste becomes inevitable.