{"id":4139,"date":"2009-02-03T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2009-02-02T20:59:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T01:59:18","slug":"which-sounds-better-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4139","title":{"rendered":"Which Sounds Better to You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An enema with a sandblaster or a foot massage by a Pittsburgh Steelers Cheerleader?<\/p>\n<p>Coming home to a raging house fire or arriving at your cabana on the beach replete with a fully stocked mini-fridge?<\/p>\n<p>A hijacked jetliner crashing into the ocean off the coast of East Africa or a skillful landing on the Hudson River?<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes in the ring with a folding metal chair in the hands of a steroid-ridden Jesse Ventura, or a playful moment in a pile of fallen leaves with your little girls?<\/p>\n<p>Last one&#8230;don&#8217;t let <em>me <\/em>influence your choice:<\/p>\n<p>A bloated pork-ridden stimulus package of some eight hundred billion (soon to be worthless) dollars including billions for liberal pet projects and paybacks or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/02\/02\/senate-republicans-unveil-alternative-stimulus\/\">$430 billion dollars on tax cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>$114 billion for infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>$138 billion for extending unemployment insurance, food stamps and other provisions to help \u201cAmericans in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>$31 billion to address the housing crisis ($11 billion for a loan modification program, $20.4 billion in tax incentives for home purchases, $50 million to temporarily increase loan limits for Freddie, Fannie and FHA)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you that can&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suitablyflip.com\/suitably_flip\/2009\/01\/stimulus-illustrated-part-ii.html\">do math<\/a> (sorry Mr. President, yes I am including you) that&#8217;s over one hundred billion dollars less than the current proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;it actually sounds like a <em>real <\/em>stimulus package &#8211; the lesser of two evils version at least.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Barack Obama&#8217;s flavor of bipartisanship means we probably don&#8217;t <em>have <\/em>a choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enema with a sandblaster or a foot massage by a Pittsburgh Steelers Cheerleader? Coming home to a raging house fire or arriving at your cabana on the beach replete with a fully stocked mini-fridge? A hijacked jetliner crashing into the ocean off the coast of East Africa or a skillful landing on the Hudson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}