i stopped posting because it was a waste of time.

people talking about passing an economic stimulus NOW are a wee bit late.  action should have been taken before last summer during the oil crisis.  by knocking down the price of oil, it would have boosted consumer confidence and spending, probably averted some of the catastrophic deleveraging, and avoided the collapse of the auto industry (caused by high gas prices you ADD-riddled fools, not by the credit crisis).  instead gov't flailed around uselessly like a chicken with its head cut off.  well, duh.  it's easier stopping a boulder before it has started down the hill and built up momentum.

why waste time whining about a bunch of drunken derelicts too busy investigating issues that threaten the security of the nation, like steroids in baseball, instead of monitoring the housing fiasco, wall street, or fixing social security, medicare, energy independence, etc.?

large psychological component.  obama keeps talking down the economy.  worst crisis since great depression.  apocalyptic terms.  wtf is he doing?  he is intentionally overstating it.

i can only assume that he is being advised by vultures that want this economic crisis to continue so that they have more time to pick apart undervalued assets.  so, the rich are amassing their wealth for a big bounceback.  and he's also covering his own rear end by downplaying expectations should he fail - which is the worst thing he could be doing right now, since he is just driving confidence even deeper into the ditch that it's mired in.  good job.  i think we should start napalming cows in the next stimulus bill.

oh, the stimulus bill.  exactly what "change" is there in the bill?  it's just a big mac and fries super-sized.  same old same old.  just bigger fries and soda.  mmm.  super-sized.

yeah, i like making gov't buildings more energy efficient and weatherizing homes.  it's a good idea.  but ... that is supposed to "save" the economy?  how about legislating that we look through all of our sofa cushions for loose change, i'm sure every little bit adds up. =P

if you want to save the economy, this is how to do it.

1) don't pour money down fiscal potholes and financial sinks.  put it into the exact opposite - growing sectors of the economy.  accelerate their growth.  they are the TIP OF THE SPEAR to economic recovery and will provide SELF-SUSTAINING jobs that won't disappear when you turn off the funds.  bubbles are supposed to collapse.  don't waste time propping up goopy, soapy films.  hitch yer wagon to the engines that still can do it.

2) the reason some people voted for obama was because they wanted jfk man-on-the-moon i-have-a-dream type of big ideas.  instead they got big hotdog-on-a-stick.  and really bad poetry on inauguration day.  whoop.  so, the bloody-farking-obvious idea that people could have galvanized around, but is now the nobody-gives-a-crap-about-because-the-price-of-oil-torpedoed idea, was energy independence.

it still is a flicking good idea, you stupid flocks.  it's the big stick you can whack the economy over the head to wake it up.  build nukes.  boost coal.  drill more.  improve energy infrastructure.  this permanently boosts energy production.  lowers energy costs.  lowers production costs.  insulates the us economy from oil shocks and price manipulation.  frock the russians and opec.  tough luck, canada and mexico.  oh, wait.  it will never happen, so russians go do the sabre dance or whatever.

3) "change" isn't passing a bloated pork bill.  that's more of the same.  "change" would be quickly passing a smaller, no frills bill that everyone can agree upon without pork.

oh wait, but it's not big enough!!!  we want it to be a trillion zillion dollars!!! it's not going to create enough of a shock to the economy to jump start it if we're only spending a couple hundred billion! 

haha, passing a bipartisan bill without any wasteful expenditure would shock the hell out of everyone.  plus, you could say that you wanted to pass a good bill quickly that is different from the bloated junk of past congresses.  additional stimulus bills would be passed in the future - but again, only good bills without pork.  highly specific.  targeted only towards improving the economy - not blindly throwing money around like the money fairy hoping that something good happens magically by waving your money wad at it.  frankly, why not just load up cropdusters with twenty dollar bills and just have them fly over cities?  that will boost spending and then magically the economy will be saved by santa claus and his merry leprechauns that live inside shoes that have been stockpiled for these types of economic disasters.

a recap.

1) TIP OF THE SPEAR - accelerate growing sectors of the economy.  they create SELF-SUSTAINING jobs that won't disappear when you cut off funding (unlike infrastructure projects).

2) CENTRAL, BIG IDEA - not hotdog-on-a-stick.  real energy independence.  just fluking do it.

3) GROUND THE MONEY CROPDUSTERS - instead of passing big, fat, trillion zillion dollar spending bills that throw money around blindly, pass stripped down, highly specific bills.  it's a more disciplined approach.  <insert dominatrix-politician joke here>

4) SANTA CLAUS AND HIS MERRY LEPRECHAUNS - they will save us!

but of course, none of this has happened.  is happening.  or will happen.  because we are all idiots, and money fairies, santa claus, and his merry, shoe leprechauns do not exist.  the economy will have to recover on its own.  washington is useless ... just like this blog.