Reply #16: Which is why I don't like the Stimulus bill. [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

If Bush or Reagan were proposing it, we'd be noticing that it is a successful way to drown the government in debt, preventing any money from being spent on long-term solutions.

After all, everyone from the new Administration to local officials is already talking about a "new era of belt-tightening" that will be initiated the day after this bill is passed (and not a minute before!) that
will force austerity measures on ALL EXISTING PROGRAMS after the wad of cash from this bill is blown.

Grover Norquist had a term for this fiscal approach, "Spend and Spend until the Government can be drowned in a Bathtub."

The Post had a great front page article about progressive activists (like me, although I'm more of a purebred populist) beginning to turn against the stimulus bill for this very reason.