2009 Economic Stimulus Plan

I turned on the TV this morning and heard some shocking news that the senate was close to reaching a bi-partisan agreement! Then I surfed the Internet and everyone on here is saying the same thing!

I am kind of scratching my head on this one, evidently none of these people actually watched the LIVE CSpan Senate session like I did Friday night. It is pretty bad when the national news blatantly lies to the American public and no one notices.

Out of all the Republican Senators only two are in favor of the Senates revised version of the Economic Stimulus Plan, and those two senators were part of the four person committee that wrote it. WOW! That really sounds like a bi-partisan plan to me! But wait it gets better.

This new Economic Stimulus Plan isn't like the Houses version that was full of PORK and would have cost the American Taxpayer $820 billion. This new Senate version supposedly cut out $100+ billion of pork and will only cost us $827 billion! Oh, I almost forgot since we are borrowing this money don't forget to add the $300 billion in interest! I guess this is a small price to pay for getting the economy back on track.

With this $1.1 trillion Economic Stimulus Plan it should create 1.5 million to 4 million Americans jobs! Which doesn't sound too bad. Well lets do a little math. If in the remote chance that this plan creates 4 million new jobs, which I think most would agree is pretty slim. Those 4 million jobs will only cost a little over $220,000 each! I don't know anyone who would think that sounded like a good plan. If we are just going to waste money like this why don't we just give 32 million people $22,500 to spend as they like?

Don't get mew wrong I am all for getting the economy and my fellow Americans back working again, but not at this price!