I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through

Monday, January 26, 2009

The Definition of Insanity

To my conservative leaders of government,

Are you insane? You policy is broken. Instead of learning from the failures of the past years, adjusting, and moving forward, or listening to some of your own standard bearers and reforming as the party of "new ideas" you've decided to go another way. Just like some slow witted American Tourists when confronted with someone who doesn't understand English you figure you're just not talking slowly or loudly enough.

Good times, tax cuts. Bad times, tax cuts. Even worse times, tax cuts. Economic catastrophe, tax cuts. Um, need a new plan here.

Also, we've tried two stimulus plans your way. Now you wish to criticize the new plan for being too long term, saying your mantra slower and louder, "put money in people's pockets now!" See, if we had done the first stimulus the way the liberal side wanted to at the beginning, that you also considered to be too slow, we would already be in the building phase. Instead our economy continues to go down the crapper. If we had structured the stimulus plan this past summer around the philosophy of growing jobs, we would be signing contracts for those projects right now.

So now that some adults have figured out that doing the same thing, tax cuts and rebates, isn't going to miraculously work. Instead we need to have a program with long term goals, plans, and benefits. Like we should have done the first time.

You have a problem with giving money directly to States? You're criticizing this as the party of local control, the party that forced many programs down to the states, the "federal government doesn't know how to spend the money for these programs let's have the states decide" party? Do you have enough neck braces for the whip lash you're giving your caucus?

Hypocrisy much?

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