Stimulus Package Rammed Through

The myth of bi-partisanship was run up the flag pole and brought down in tatters once again this week. I am concerned whenever the dominating political party rams something through Congress without debate and disclosure. There is no reason that the stimulus package could not have been chunked into three or four spending bills except political expediency.

I might point out that the Republicans behaved in a similar way during the early Bush years.

Whether you support any part of the economic stimulus package or not, the political process did not serve the best interests of the typical American household. As I've mentioned earlier, the fall bail-out (TARP1) was rushed through and tremendously inefficient (The government overpaid banks for assets.) and apparently ineffectual.

Every spending bill is subject to added on contamination due to political quid-pro-quos. The larger and quicker the process, the deeper and darker the shadows where this contamination hides. As sunlight exposes the depth and degree of spending that neither stimulates the economy nor benefits the typical American contained within this spending bill, I expect a strong negative reaction from the public.

I did not like the way the Bush administration pushed their pet projects through the media and Congress when the Republicans held the edge and so far this is more of the same old politics.