True, the stimulus bill gives less back to Colorado than to any other state but one. On the other hand, the Democratic National Convention was held in Denver, and Obama came here to sign the stimulus bill, as well. I guess we should be grateful for what we got. They say we get less because we're in better shape than most of the rest of the country. If this is better than everywhere else, things must be even worse than we thought. I've reserved my spot under one of the new bridges the stimulus package will build.
Let us hope that the partisan bickering over the details of the stimulus package doesn't derail the whole thing. I'm glad to see Obama using the bully pulpit more forcefully. To deride the stimulus package as nothing more than a huge government spending bill is silly; that's what a stimulus bill is. The whole theory is that government is now the agent of last resort--the only one left with enough money to get the economy up and running again. Economists from both sides of the aisle agree on this. The only ones who don't seem to understand it are the ones blocking the progress. This should not surprise us, given that their policies helped create this mess in the first place. Their mantra seems to be, if stupidity and arrogance got us into this mess, then why can't stupidity and arrogance get us out of it?
