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.
( Look at the graph of undoing )
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.
( Look at the graph of undoing )
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.