( - promoted by Jay Stevens)
Besides an orgasm? Just a thought. With all of the current hoopla surrounding the immediacy of the stimulus package, little thought has been given to what comes next.
Like the mass transit funding. While it would be nice to get some money into the current bill, there is going to be a need for another round of legislation that sets out some long term goals, with drawn out funding mechanisms.
Not every liberal or progressive pipe dream is going to be, or should be, stuffed into the current stimulus package. It just isn't going to be practicable to do so. What needs to happen is that major programs like mass transit, energy independence, healthcare reform, etc. all need to be addressed in programatic ways, with the view towards creating legacies. And it should be #1 priority after the stimulus package is wrapped up.
But the stimulus package should be focused on short term goals: shoring up the economy by preserving and creating jobs. Nothing more, and nothing less. Anything else just gets in the way of what really needs to get done. And creates fodder for the anti-Obamans down the road.
And the funding for family planning was just the tip of the iceberg. Sure, it could be rationalized. I listened to Rep. Wexler go through a convoluted explanation, that sort of made sense if you could follow it. But why go through those contortions? If a provision of the bill doesn't get directly to jobs, then it should go into some other piece of comprehensive reform legislation, and get its full day in the sun. I'm sick and tired of listening to Boehner get a boner talking about funding contraceptives in the stimulus package.
Everybody wants to ramrod their pet project into this stimulus bill because it offers an opportunity for dems--who have been thumb-capped for so long--to finally get the long awaited orgasm that sweeping the elections and getting some needed stimulus is providing. But the stimulus is just that: prelude to an orgasm. One that when over will leave one feeling gratified, but wanting of more. One can smoke a cigarette or take a nap once it has passed. Or one can get up and get to work on the real necessities of this country.
So that's when the new long-term relationship between the people and their country needs to begin. And it needs to be carefully thought out and prepared for. And it needs to be visionar, sustainable and with longevity for all.
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