We the People, Need a Real Economic Stimulus Plan
What has been set before Congress is a plan to put a few hundred dollars in our pockets so we can buy the last gee-whiz gizmo being produced by laborers working in conditions banned in the United States nearly a century ago. A real plan would should show a commitment that our government will stand behind us to safeguard our rights to life, liberty and our pursuit of happiness as promised in our Declaration of Independence.
This is not a plan, it is a late Christmas present from our government - for which we will all pay.
An economic stimulus package should look out 5, 10, even 20 years - not next week.
A plan for our economy should look at means of ending the vicious multi-generational cycle of poverty that grips a large portion of our society, not with bandages and handouts, but a hand up and out. An economic stimulus plan would end the insanity of permanently punishing people convicted of crimes, leaving them in poverty for their entire lives.
An economic stimulus plan would not permit millions of Americans to fear they will be homeless within the next year, and would punish the financial institutions that placed people in such precarious financial straits.
An economic stimulus plan needs to provide for the education of our best and brightest, whether it be in the various skilled trades, the arts, the sciences, or in engineering, regardless of their ability to pay for that education.
An economic stimulus plan should encompass a comprehensive set of goals for creating jobs for people in the high-paying manufacturing sector, not look at how to make the rich richer and make the multi-national corporations happy.
An economic stimulus plan would set a far-reaching set of goals over the next few years to rebuild our deteriorating public infrastructure, not permit another disaster like the one in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, or the bridge collapse in Minnesota, or have our children sitting in schools without adequate heat or lighting.
An economic stimulus plan should be a road map to energy independence for us as a nation, not the drop in the bucket for disjointed efforts under the authority of dozens of federal agencies with different goals and objectives.
An economic stimulus plan needs to look ahead, not only to next week, but next year, and the next several decades.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentIn retrospect, TARP was a resounding success. Good article. Thanks for sharing.
In response to this article, I do agree that the gov't needs to come up with a "stimulus package" to look out for the future economic needs of the working class in this country. At the same time most American families like mine need immediate relief, and not to buy ourselves the latest 'gee-whiz" gizmo. We need an stimulus check to insure we can have heat this winter.
Actually, strictly speaking a stimulus package really should be aimed at jumpstarting the economy immediately. Of course there are a lot of things that were proposed for the package or are actually in it that do not do that. An economic REFORM package is what ought to be aimed at 5-10 years from now.
So true. I wonder what would have been done, if it would not be an election year.