Stimulate This!

I am so sick of hearing about the stimulus package. Really, after resounding debt from the Iraq war, we as a nation choose now to be financially conservative? For all their hootin' and hollerin', the GOP was more than willing to sell the lower class's left kidney in order to find those ever elusive WMD's in the name of patriotism, but now that a democratic administration has chosen to spend that money on our own soil instead of abroad, there is all this turmoil? And really, enough with the flogging of Obama for his lack of "bi-partisainship." It's a little alarming that out of how many house republicans, NOT ONE was in favor. Really? Not one of y'all thought his might be a good idea, even though your GOP governers are foaming at the mouth for potential stimulus money? I find it hard to believe that not one had an orignial thought and wanted to support a democratic legislation, but instead were too busy being afraid of backlash from their own party to do so. Obama tried to get all y'all involved, but you wanted nothing to do with it, so stop bitching. Maybe if y'all could stop pouting for 5 minutes and play nice for once, you'd have more of your ideas heard.

And this isn't to say that house democrats are the saints in this. Jack Cafferty on CNN.com has a scathing commentary on Pelosi and Reid, part of which sounds all too much like them not to be true. However, even though (as I posted before) the meager $50 million for the arts was thrown out quicker than a Planned Parenthood brochere in the Palin household (how goes those wedding plans, Bristol?) as I was reading where the money was actually going, my first thought was, "gee, we as a nation should already be doing all these things as a part of being united under the same borders, why is it taking an economic meltdown to get it done?" Things like, oh, repairing roads and bridges. Or renewable energy. Or modernizing schools. You know, basic stuff that for the past 8 years has been neglected due to shoveling money to the middle east rather than to our own children. Obama is absolutely right to essentially say to all the GOP that y'all got us into this mess, and now you're acting like 5 year olds on how to get out? Yeah sorry, no sympathy.

Then it occurred to me that maybe after 8 years of Wall Street greed, military spending, environmental rape, civil rights abolishing, etc, that the actual cost to try to go back to a semi-normal state can be totalled to roughly 787 billion dollars.