re: #973 exelwood

i’ve already said it’s a bad bill in a good cause. it could probbaly have been done cheaper - and it all could have been sorted from the begining if Obama had just presented his own bill after the election.

Does it bother me?
who else could have saved autos?
who else could have provided the immediate capital to stop massive banks collapsing and taking the world payments system with them?
Who else had he money to plough into the states to prevent the losses of thousands upon thousands of Jobs - see Charlie Crist on the situation room about how many Educators Florida would have lost without stimulous money.

Long as i have my choice of non-government bagel shops - s’all good for me. Thats a simplification - but as long as i have choice of none essentials - bagels, toilet tissue, fridges, alphabettie spaghetti…and as long as the government wants to save teaching jobs or help medically insure people… then i guess i’m just not as doctrinaire as is required these days.

Grand works and great projects are largely the remit of governments through the ages.

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