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More Job StimuLess? Sr. House Caulker Wanted.

I don't know much about your economic theories, but I prefer direct stimulation for growth. If you want to do something useful to get money spent or to get money into the hands of businesses so they can grow, give me the money directly. I'll maybe spend it, or I might save it. Either way, it would be a positive economically, and could actually lead to jobs, unlike the list of items below in the "stimulus" bill. A more honest name would have been the grow the government more stimulus plan. Unfortunately, truth in advertising isn't a concept politicians are familiar with. Can I be blunt? If you are factoring into your life plans anything related to the government, I'm afraid you are in for a long life of struggle and mediocrity. That should be obvious, but if not, give it some objective thought.

Actually, I don't factor into my plans any handouts or services from the government. If they want to send me something, I'll take it, as sort of a payback, but I won't go looking for it. I'll go ahead and buy all of my own services, thank you, because I am not really into anything government grade, especially since it's just being piled on to an enormous debt for future generations to enjoy. Let's just say I have tried government cheese somewhere along the way and I still can't get the taste out of my mouth. Anyway, I like to aim a little higher in life than government grade anything. Hopefully, you do too.

So how do you think that $750,000,000,000,000 is really working out in terms of creating jobs? Before you answer that, ask yourself this. Are the jobs the government is supposedly trying to create, with your money, really viable long-term occupations? I don't think so. Creating more government jobs that we can never get rid of, or a nation full of house caulkers I heard discussed seriously last night from some politicians, doesn't count. Lately, you hear "invest in the infrastructure" (road construction). Are you aware how many billions of dollars are already allotted every year for this? Tacking on tens of billions more to create some temporary non-skilled jobs isn't job creation. It's mindboggling sad that people buy into this. If you aren't aware somehow, the waste is horrifying in government. The bottom line is, and don't be naive and biased because you agree with some single aspect of a party's platform, governments do not create real (sustainable) jobs, businesses do.

Politicians know. About 1 in 10,000 Americans will ever really look into where their money / national debt increase went to with the economic stimulus plan. If they did take a minute to learn about something they pretend to know something about, they would be horrified, if they are an objective and reason driven individual. Politicians know that they can tell anyone anything, like a government run healthcare plan will lead to choice, competition, and no new tax burden. Think about that. They will literally tell you anything. It's called spin. They will do it, because they know they are dealing with tens of millions of uniformed people, who will soon forget what was told to them anyway. By the way, reading the newspaper and watching the news doesn't make anyone informed.

Again, it seems like basic economics, but if you want to stimulate something you would do so by lessening the massive business taxes and government controls that small and large businesses suffer through so they can grow and begin hiring more. That is a real jobs plan and it doesn't involve growing an already massive government. You would also put money directly into the hands of all Americans so they can invest or spend money on goods and services. You don't put the money into the hands of government bureaucrats and their budgets.

I know, that makes too much sense, and common sense is something many aren't interested in. At least in the past, I actually received two very useful checks. Next time you hear a politician talking stimulus, as if that sounds like something useful, keep in mind that there really was no stimulus at all, just more handouts and government waste. Hiring a pile of government workers to annoy us with more road construction redo's, is not job creation.

For amusement, and because I felt at the time the ability to stomach the results, I looked at the breakdown as to where the money, that we do not have, went to. The breakdown is too long to list, but below are some highlights.

Key Economic Stimulus Plan Items (actual):

- Filipino World War II veterans compensation
- Grants and loans for green investment in section 8 properties
- NASA exploration
- Homelessness prevention and re-housing
- YouthBuild program for high school dropouts who re-enroll in other schools
- Census Bureau programs
- Defense Department facilities operation (multiple)
- Historically black colleges and universities preservation
- Government Accountability Office salaries and expenses
- Local and state fire station upgrades and construction
- School lunch programs for schools
- Wildfire mitigation
- Grants-in-aid for airports
- National Endowment for the Arts grants
- Addressing health professions workforce shortage
- Community Service Block Grant Program
- Food distribution program on Indian reservations
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Bureau of Indian Affairs job training and housing improvement programs
- Indian guaranteed loan program
- Temporary increase in benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) ($20 billion)
- State and local law enforcement assistance to Indian tribes
- AmeriCorps program salaries and expenses

No offense to any of these programs, but how are these programs going to stimulate the economy and create jobs? They are not and that was not the intent of these political donations. The government cannot stimulate anything, only businesses can. Sorry to point out the blatantly obvious once again.

Nobody is going to change a person by arguing with them, but if people would just take a minute to truly understand something, before having an opinion on it, they could possible change themselves. As an example, and maybe it's just me, but isn't it completely asinine to give public money (your money) to car manufacturers, banks, and financial companies? If companies are going to manage their corporate balance sheets and income statements, like many do in their personal life, then they need to pay the piper.

The world and economy would not have ended if they would have just let them sink, and many of them wouldn't have. It is a massive economy we are fortunate to live in. The market has millions of well run companies to shoulder the burden for the irresponsible. Zero lessons were learned, as usual, just handing them a check. Instead of putting them in a position to have to make real changes to become viable in the marketplace, these companies will just live on the dole for a while and see what happens. They'll talk a big game about making changes, but they won't make the tough changes everyone knows they should make, because their new government business partner won't let them. This is the inherent problem with government involvement in any business or industry.

Why we keep rewarding companies and people for the bad decisions they make should be studied. If you want to spew "compassion", help people to think and act responsibly. Help them to be stronger. Help them to be self-sufficient. Nothing about sending a company or person an unearned check qualifies as compassion. That breads dependency, which is anti-compassion.

I know, this isn't really positive and uplifting, so don't dwell on it. Unlike others, you don't factor the government into your life. You are much better than that. You aspire to bigger and better.

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