About the Stimulus Package and the problem of pork,

[hedgehog]

Poll question: About the Stimulus Package and the problem of pork,

which would be your reaction:

[billyoc]

1. The more pork the better.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. It's almost as if the GOP had been bashing the idea of infrastructure projects ...

... in the hopes of one day seeing the economy fall apart.

What do the GOP want? Do they want the money to go to churches who will then build the roads?

Do they want faith-based pork?

[Fovea]

3. Wassamatter?

Don't you want Haliburton bridges?

[ColbertWatcher]

4. LOL!

I'd rather have a Saddleback Bridge, the toll is just 10% of your wages (or SSDI).

[damntexdem]

5. But would it be in the center on each side?

Or would the stripe go down the median?

[rucky]

6. Typical GOP tactic of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

When the topic is welfare, they talk about the cheats that make up a small minority.
When the topic is healthcare, they talk about the small number of friviolous lawsuits against doctors.
When the topic is peace, they talk about the unreasonable minority of people who "want to destroy us".

They have some seriously fucked up perspectives when it comes to helping.

[Motown_Johnny]

7. It has been suggested that when times are bad the Government should hire people to dig holes,

and then fill them up again.


I assume building wind turbines, roads, bridges and power lines are an even better idea

[AndyTiedye]

8. and RAILROADS!

[hedgehog]

9. All kidding aside, I probably had great, great grandfathers who

who were paid to do that type of project back during the Famine. Cecil Woodham-Smith in her seminal book, The Great Hunger, described how barefoot men dressed in tatters worked in the snow to lay stone walls alongside roads to nowhere. Men worked for pennies a day on worthless projects, because the members of the English Parliament were concerned that if they merely fed starving families, the Irish would become lazy. If they forbade the export of other foodstuffs, it would be interfering with free trade. If men were put to work on real improvements, government would be competing with private investors. Hence, roads to nowhere.

The only defense for them is that they were blinded by their commitment to economic theory and ignorant of actual conditions. What's the Republicans' excuse?