Guess he wasn't kidding about the "hope" part

[darkemeralds]

President Obama (nope, not done feeling a thrill every time I use that phrase) is magically undoing the fear and loathing I felt from 2000 to 2008. At Recovery.gov he explains how the ginormous economic stimulus package is going to be allotted.







Science and Infrastructure! It's third only to direct tax relief and state-and-local direct funding. That's code for "Stem cell research and levees, you Bush-administration fuckers," I'm pretty sure.

If you have to sink us into a trillion more dollars' worth of the hole we're in (and I've come to accept that you probably do), at least doing it this way gives me hope that rational, reality-based minds are the ones doing the digging.

Comments

[lambourngb.livejournal.com]

My sentiments exactly. We're already in a financial hole, it really doesn't worry me that we're going deeper and deeper in debt, at least this way the money has a hope of encouraging growth and righting the tailspin of the economy, instead of say weapons, war, no-bid contracts to cronies...

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Yes! And though I haven't investigated deeply, I'm half-sanguine that when President Obama says "tax cuts" he includes the likes of you and me in that statement, and not just Corporate America.