Stimulus Part 2.

One of the most practical lessons I learned as a child was that every action has some type of reaction or consequence that accompanies it. So every decision a person makes will result in some type of consequence. For instance, if you put your hand on a hot stove you will burn yourself no matter if it is a low flame or a high. The severity of the burn will depend on how long your hand is on the stove along with how high the burner is. Well, apparently Liberals and their leadership never learned this kind of a lesson when they were attending leadership 101.
Let’s apply this logic to the idea that investing in infrastructure will create millions of shovel ready jobs once again. In the last stimulus package President Obama claimed that a large portion of the money would be devoted to improving the nation’s infrastructure. According to the President these projects would create a surplus of jobs in construction and other areas involved in such a task, but this never happened. What did happen was tax payer money got wasted, and the only shoveling was done by the President himself on what he sold to the American people.
Now Liberals are trying to claim that this time around it will really result in the creation of jobs. That this time around it will create a boost that the economy badly need. They insist that improving highways, building new schools, constructing new bridges, and improving other areas will finally do the trick. The problem is that the government is supposed to be doing this already. State taxes and federal taxes are already allocated to take care of all of these problems. What happened to the money already squeezed out of tax payers that were suppose to improve little Sally’s school? I thought that the last stimulus would have taken care of any pot holes along highway 1.
The truth is that the money that was intended to help to fix all of these problems got spent creating others. It got used to serve other purposes like keeping certain lobbyist happy. Does Solyndra sound familiar to anyone? Could infrastructure possibly create jobs, maybe? The problem is that we don’t have money that can just be spent guessing. If states weren’t so overwhelmed with federal red tape more highways and roads would get fixed. If the NEA actually did their job, then money could be spent to improve schools. President Obama needs to realize that no matter how many times he tries to pass another massive piece of legislation saying that it will create numerous jobs throughout infrastructure is about as valid as saying that putting your hand back on the stove won’t hurt as much this time because your burned yourself once before. Conservatives need to continue to put pot holes whenever Liberals decide to use this sort of political argument to further bankrupt our nation. You can read more about what Harry Red says an Obama stimulus part two would do here http://nationaljournal.com/congress/democrats-next-jobs-message-traffic-potholes-20111021