It has to go Somewhere?! That's the Whole Point?!

Bill O’Reilly and Barack Obama are on the same page concerning the stimulus bill.

On February 5^th, Obama complained that his critics argue, “This is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill.” To which Obama replied, “Well what do you think a stimulus bill is? That’s the whole point!”

Perhaps Obama doesn’t know that tax cuts and deregulation can also stimulate the economy. Perhaps Obama doesn’t know that some spending stimulates more than other spending.

Then on 2/25 Bill O’Reilly said that he might have a problem with the size of the stimulus bill, but that he did not have any problem with how it was being spent because “It has to go somewhere.”

What if it just paid people to dig ditches and fill them in again?

Considering that Obama’s spending today is taking the fruits of our labor from the mouths of our children, and considering that in the future the government will have to then take the fruits of our children’s labor from the mouths of our grandchildren, can’t we get a better deal – like twice the jobs for half the price?

How about some roads, bridges, and dams?

How about free day care or college?

How about inventing fusion power or a cure for cancer?

Heck! Even a cure for baldness would be better than taking the fruits of our labor and giving it to a bunch of environmentalists, bureaucrats, and community organizers so they can write more studies, distribute more condoms, and buy more junk from China.