Proof Postiive of Pork in the Stimulous Package
Pretty inventive. Manure management? Yep, that sounds like the government to me
Honestly 1.8 million is pretty small potatoes, which I love with ham! ... I was going for laughs.
Ah, sorry. I live in feedlot country, so I am all too familiar with the problems caused by bad manure management. It's beef, more than swine, over here, but I went to college in rural Iowa, where the water is essentially undrinkable, so my reaction was closer to "ONLY $1.8 million, are they nuts!?! Give them more!"
- pgrundyposted 11 years ago
0Around here manure management is no joke. But I know you were going for a laugh, not seriously criticizing the package.
I'm kind of tired of critics picking out some little weird thing though and making a mountain out of it when they basically agree that 90% of the rest of it is necessary.
I know you weren't doing that here, I'm just tired of seeing it on the news and so on.Yeah. I mean you could see it as part of the legitimate reason Congresspersons are there--they want to bring home the bacon, literally. They want industry located in THEIR state, projects started there, money going there--It kind of is their job. I think people get mad about it because they sneak it in on bills that are totally unrelated so there's no real discussion. I think that's what honks people off.
BDazzler--I just don't know. It looks to me like this is a mess that was at least 30 years in the making, and the last eight really got the ball rolling downhill. I'm just glad I'm not President. I sure don't know how to fix it. Sometimes it feels like, you know, Mrs. O'Leary's cow done kicked over the lantern, the barn caught fire, now the whole city's on fire, and the Fire Department is standing around arguing whether to buy more trucks or stop building wood-framed houses. Meanwhile there's a few immediate problems that nobody is addressing at all...
Personally, I blame Woodrow Wilson, if he would have sold stuff to the Germans rather than the Brits, we would have been on the other side of WW 1, and have would have gone to war with the Brits instead. Since we'd already beat 'em twice, once more wouldn't have been a big deal. There would have been no Treaty of Versailes and therefore no first global depression and therefore no Hitler ... therefore no cold war ... therefore no military industrial complex ...
... Now that I think about it ... it's all the Brits fault and THAT lays the blame squarely on Mark Knowles!
(He gets blamed for everything anyway!)Well, in the style of Bishop whatshisname, I apologize that this has offended so many people. I am truly sorry to have caused so much upset.
Related Discussions
- 42
Will the Republicans in Congress Send the Economy into a Death Spiral?
Paul Krugman's column in the NYTimes today 1-5-08 is entitled "Fighting Off Depression." In it he called the recent economic numbers "terrifying," not just in the U.S. but around the world. Manufacturing in particular is plunging everywhere; banks aren't lending; businesses and...
- 2
Critics of the Stimulus Package - What is your alternative strategy for reversin
Critics of the Stimulus Package - What is your alternative strategy for reversing US economic decline? Why is your strategy better than Obama's?
- 17
Obamanomics and Why the Government can't Create Jobs
The Associated Press released a story today... an anti-republican, pro Obama piece about jobs created with stimulous money in South Carolina in a mostly Republican area."The new hires came from a broad area including parts of South Carolina and Georgia, and unemployment rates have continued to...
- 20
The Fierce Urgency of Pork
By Charles KrauthammerFriday, February 6, 2009; A17"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."-- President Obama, Feb. 4.Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over...
- 32
We have apparently entered an era of scientific denial!
" ROCHESTER — IN 1982, polls showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created human beings in their present form. Thirty years later, the fraction of the population who are creationists is 46 percent. "In 1989, when “climate change” had just entered the public...
- 3
How a STIMULUS PACKAGE works
My dad sent this in an email today and I thought I would share it:It is a slow day in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the...