The Administration doesn't get it -- still. It's about the economy. They think the American public is a bunch of idiots. The money they are throwing at "stimulus" packages is just designed to buy votes for another few years of power. It certainly won't stimulate the economy.
Money is being tucked away by businesses who have the power to create jobs. Why would they invest it with such an environment of uncertainty in Washington? Or, perhaps, why invest when there is such certainty in Washington? -- certainty that those in power are out to take what isn't their's and throw it to those who would keep them in power. Either way, the economy suffers.
It isn't something that is popular to mention, but, the War in Iraq was actually a stimulus to our economy. Spending on military equipment and supplies created lots of jobs, as did troop recruitment. It also cost less than the Obama Administration's "stimulus" spending to date -- which, by-the-way, did nothing to stimulate the economy.
I'm not much on "ranting" about every little thing that goes on in the world -- whether politics, economics or whatever. There are just a handful of fundamental issues anyway. They come back to differences in world-view. Right now, mine is at a polar opposite to what I see in Washington. Fortunately, mine includes a faith in something higher that sustains me through the valley of the shadow.......
