Thought this rant pretty much sums up why the Congress has the lowest approval rating in history! Hope it wont drag down the approval rating of our President:
Courtesy Chuck Butler, President, Everbank World Markets.
OK, speaking of stimulus... I'm very upset with the "new and Improved" stimulus package. I'm sure you've figured this out already from previous rants. However, now... I'm even more ticked off! Oh, and the TV / Cable media are swallowing the propaganda from the White House, hook, line and sinker! Here's what I'm talking about folks...
The package has a "buy American" portion in the package... This is protectionism folks... And here's what gets my goat the most about protectionism at this stage of the recession... Fed Chairman, Big Ben Bernanke, is supposedly a "U.S. depression guru"... Well, Big Ben, wasn't the protectionism of the 1930's one of the reasons for the Great Depression? And is just so happens that now we've had "the cheater's" confirmation, calling China "currency manipulators", and that was followed up with the "buy American" portion of the package...
Look... There's nothing wrong with the slogan, Buy American... In fact, I think it would be a great thing to go around saying and doing, based on our manufacturing prowess... But, that's not what I'm talking about here... I'm talking about protectionism, at a time when the global economies are hurting and need to export to us... I'm really surprised that the currency traders haven't seen this and taken the dollar to the woodshed... But then, maybe they're getting the wool pulled over their eyes...
The other thing that ticks me off on the "new and improved" stimulus package is the fact that a very small piece of the $816 Billion (before the Senate adds their pork!), stimulus is for the infrastructure projects that have been billed as a "major piece" of this plan! HOGWASH! Now, I'm not going to sit here and pass judgment on all the "items" that are being allocated Billions of dollars, like $1 Billion to deal with the census problems, and $88 Billion to help move the Public Health Service into a new building next year, and $650 million for TV Converter boxes. The list of items like this goes on and on... And all worthy items, I'm sure... But none of these types of spending allocations, and I repeat this so you get the full force of this statement... None of these types of spending allocations are doing anything to create jobs. Oh... And just for those of you keeping score at home... $50 Billion is allocated to bricks and mortar... Infrastructure... Which has had "top billing" on this package... Well, the truth is out... I sure hope someone takes their lawmakers to the woodshed for this!
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