Monday, February 23, 2009

Stimulate This

Some stimulus package questions - because people need to stimulate their brains and actually ask some questions about this nonsense:
If 94% of homeowners are making their payments, why the hell are we bailing out the 6% who aren't? Catastrophic medical reasons might be an exception, but essentially, if you overextended yourself, why the hell are WE (and make no mistake - it is us taxpayers paying for it) bailing you out? Foreclosure is brutal and devastating - maybe lesson learned.
How about we focus on employment instead. Theoretically at least, if people are working, they have some disposable income with which to stimulate the economy. A friend of mine (thanks D-Mo) did the math, and if the 1 trillion dollars earmarked for job creation is divided by the number of jobs expected to be created; 6 million, that comes out to a cost of $166k per job. I'd like one of those please.
Why oh why the hell are we spending part of this great, fantastic ,brilliantly thought out stimulus package on the film industry? God knows, they have plenty of coin already if the Oscars and their self-congratulatory brou-ha-ha are any indication. Aside from the fact that they robbed Mickey Rourke this year, $10 to see one of their crappy recycled story line movies is just more insanity. Don't give me the crap about distribution and middle-men blah blah blah. Slash salaries down the line for every part, costs less = charge less.

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