Rant of the Week: The Stimulus (aka "Republicans Stimulating my Funny Bone")

I suppose I should rant about Obama’s stimulus package. After all, this Tuesday, homeboy is coming to the CO to sign it. I like some of this spending. It’s insane that we’re behind countries like Ghana and South Korea in our infrastructure, whether it be roads and bridges, schools, or broadband and cell phone coverage. I like every penny spent on grants and incentives for energy technology. How are we supposed to compete in a world economy when half the nations in Asia and most the nations in Europe are kicking our rears in science and technology?

The assistance to the growing unemployed and poor is a must. If they’re increasing in numbers, how are we supposed to provide the same level of support as we currently do? Our county budgets are shrinking too, thus the aid money for state and local governments. How are states, counties and municipalities supposed to continue to provide basic services to their communities? How are they supposed to keep their clerks and accountants in jobs? How are they supposed to issue titles and drivers licenses? This is all called “pork” by sound bite conservatives.

I wish more money would have gone to the above items instead of the tax cuts. I wasn’t a gigantic fan of Obama’s tax cuts for the middle class anyway, and to be honest, this reeks of GOP concessions. I like the attempt at bipartisanship, but now that we see that the Republicans are going to do nothing more than obstruct, screw any more of that. Next time ram it down their throats. Call their bluff and let them filibuster. Hasn’t the last 8 years (not to mention the Reagan years) taught us trickle down is a bunch of horseshit? The rich cut benefits and let workers go while they spend money at retreats. The funniest part of this stimulus package is watching all the retarded Republicans throwing temper tantrums about "spending" and "pork" (look up the definition idiots, then tell me how much of this is pork) and ludicrous statements about how government has "never created one job." All Republicans crying about spending are 8 years too late. Are we supposed to believe that these very same politicians that turned a budget surplus into trillions of dollars in debt, you and your sorry party suddenly have the moral high ground on government spending? We haven’t forgotten that quickly.

I guess this is how the typical Republican brain works:

Bush tax cuts, proposed McCain tax cuts: GOOD
Obama/Dems pass billions in tax cuts: BAD

Billions of dollars spent on roads, bridges and schools in Iraq: GOOD
Billions of dollars spent on roads, bridges and schools in America: BAD