Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
Hasn't it pretty much been proved that the stimulus was a giant con at this point? The hoax of all hoaxes? All this stimulus money got sent out to PAY certain people to do work, probably at a Davis-Bacon (spelling?) wages. I just wonder if the people who did that work might have known what was coming down the pipe and gotten in line a little quicker than most people.
Also, does all this stimulus bullshit reminded anyone else of the old company towns the coal barons used to run? You get a house from the company, but your wages are never quite enough to pay it off, and the food is expensive enough that you never quite manage to eat AND save up enough to send your kids to high school instead of the mine when they are 14?
The only problem is eventually the kids just don't give a crap and decide to run off and face the unknown instead of a life of known drudgery. Oh wait, that's all that going Gault stuff isn't it?
Jan 15, 2010, 5:06:13 PM
Posted to There is No Merit to GDP Unto Itself