After all, why present as well the majority of economists who favor stimulus of some kind, in many cases involving MORE spending than this bill has, when you can do the bidding of your corporate masters at General Electric? Of course focusing on wingnut objection to the package doesn't keep General Electric from seeking some taxpayer cash in search of government subsidies for the development of smart electricity meters. I applaud GE's efforts in the area of wind power and clean energy for the post-oil era, but it's a bit disingenuous for the company to send its lobbyists to Capitol Hill in search of subsidies while putting Lisa Myers on the network newscast that everyone sees (not just the political junkies who watch the station's MSNBC shows) to give the impression that all economists are opposed to the plan because they think it has too much spending and not enough tax cuts. This is the newscast that people watch over dinner in the evening, and to ONLY allow "conservative" economists airtime is to give the impression that the Obama Administration is barrelling ahead with policies opposed by the entire community of economic experts -- when in fact many if not most economists believe the package doesn't go far enough.
The fact is that we are in uncharted territory here, and no one knows if this stimulus package, or even a larger one, is going to actually work. What we do know is that the Bush Administration spent eight years cutting taxes and here we are. We have no idea if in fact our entire lifestyle over the last thirty years has been one big Ponzi scheme. But for Republicans, aided by a media that's only too happy to help restore them to power in 2010 so they can get their hands on Social Security and cut taxes even further on giant corporations like GE, what's a few million Americans thrown into poverty among friends? Especially if it means they may get to run the show in two years.
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