Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:03:22 PM
Serious question about the “stimulus” package: This is the plan?
We’re going to sink BILLIONS of dollars in to “infrastructure” as a way of kick starting the economy? Obama has been reminding us all of the history of FDR who’s “stimulus” was largely composed of the same stuff.
The problem is that times have changed and Obama’s idea hasn’t. During the 30’s and 40’s, farmers and factory workers were looking for jobs. These people were largely unskilled and uneducated. They were looking for and expecting unskilled jobs that consisted of hard physical, manual labor. This is what most jobs consisted of in the 30’s and 40’s. They didn’t mind working for small wages, they expected small wages. They were just happy to have jobs.
Contrast that with today where most people work at desks. People today are better educated and more sophisticated than their 30’s counterparts. We’re coming out of an economic boom where people are used to being paid more than they are worth.
And we expect these desk workers to pick up shovels and dig ditches? It was 18 degrees outside my house last week. The idea of going out there for 8 to 12 hours a day and dig ditches does not excite me. Especially in light of the fact that there is already a system of roads, interstates and highways already crisscrossing our landscape put there by our 30’s and 40’s counterparts.
There is a new engineer’s report out that says our road systems and bridges are in bad shape. I guess engineers and politicians have never driven down a road and experienced the pot hole laden ride.
But wait, it gets better. Another leg of Obama’s plan is to “make college more affordable for all people”. And by making it more affordable, he doesn’t mean going to tell universities and colleges that accept huge government grants that they’re not going to be getting the money this year, no. Instead he’s going to make it more easy for youngsters to get fat government loans. Can’t help but think of Freddie and Fannie every time I hear/read about that.
When the slaves were freed after the Civil War, the plantation owners opened stores on their properties. They offered easy credit to the freedmen. This created the “wage slave”, someone who saw all their work and labor go to their masters. This was slavery with a legal face.
And this is what Obama wants to do with the youth of America. Bury them in such a big hole they owe the state everything and have no way of getting out. That way all of their work goes to the state.
And digging ditches will be the only way to get out from under that debt? I don’t think there are any college degrees in ditch digging. It’s funny to think of these Obama supporters going in to massive debt to get their degrees in poetry, anthropology, English, painting and other good liberal pursuits only to be handed a shovel uponst graduating.
Good thing colleges and universities no longer challenge their students to think.