Obama plans $1 trillion dollar stimulus -- who benefits?

Nobody will benefit because a stimulus is a Bandaid on a symptom, not a cure for the problem.

The following article is one I wrote today that defines the problem and the cure.

Forget what the experts are saying because they are involved too closely to look at it objectively.

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I'm so sick of all of these so called experts.

You write them and write them and they ignore you because they don't think you're correct.

Yet they are continuously proven wrong time after time.

I don't even have the time to be researching this because I need to be worrying about paying my telephone bill today somehow so that I will have internet access tomorrow.

But if I don't write about it and tell it the way it is, who else will step up to the plate because this story has to be told.

Because sooner or later, somebody that is in a position to make some changes is going to realize that what we talk about here is correct and that their armies of "Yes" men and women are just doing what they get paid for and saying "yes" whenever the decision maker asks them if its right.

So lets disect this global economic crisis because they sure as hell arent doing it.

The Countries that are suffering the most are:

Canada
China
Mexico
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
Saudi Arabia
Venezuela
South Korea
France
Nigeria
Taiwan
Malaysia
Brazil
Well, what do you know ?

According to this link here, those are the top 15 countries that America buys things from.

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top0810yr.html

So according to my theory.

If we ship all of our jobs offshore, we receive the following benefits

Our town's, counties, states and federal budgets are devastated
Our retailers, manufacturers and raw material producers are devastated
The countries that rely on us to buy their goods are devastated
So you see, the American consumer, who apparently accounts for far more then 70% of the World's purchases are the vital link in this economic chain.

You put us out of work so that we're not making any money or making substantially less money then what it costs to have an excess to buy the things we want with and we quit buying and the whole World's economic train comes to a halt.

Put us back to work at full pay and watch it pick up steam again.

It really is that simple and why our political and corporate leaders can't see this is beyond me.

Perhaps they don't want too because it will affect their pocket books.

If that is the case, vote them out of office, because your one vote does make a difference.

Seriously are you on crack? Really. The Obama plan is even a worse idea than the TARP.

The people who would benefit from this plan are already employed. The biggest winners would be government agencies and politicians like Blagojevich. Obama would create the largest "Pay to Play" scheme in history.

This would make the Big Dig look like building a swingset in your backyard. The payoffs, bribes, and ither unsavory actions would be impossible to even speculate on.

You will end up with the normal one person holding a shovel and 15 people drinking coffee that you see at construction sites.

The fraud will be immense. SO much so that it will destabilize the economy even further. It will be a $1 trillion version of Bernard Madoff.

The truth is that many cities don't need new schools. A school system is not great because of its building. In fact new buldings make school systems worse in many cases. I learned in a building that was falling apart and it was one of the top 100 public high schools in the nation. After I left they built a new building. The school system fell from being a top 100 school down into the thousand level.

Building roads and bridges is only temporary. Sure contractors drag out construction that should be done in a week to a few months, just to get that government payday. But that still doesn't keep people employed.

When will liberals learn that everything they do ends up with the exact opposite result of thier intention.

I just sit and wonder if any of these people who want the car companies to go away or think BIG Gov building programs ever got their hands dirty. Worked for a living. I mean worked. Not behing a computer. These are the men and women who make things have the skills that we a quickly losing. If the car companies are allowed to go under then on one generation you will lose most of the shkilled trades you have in this country. Not only assembly line worker bot tool and die makers, NC operators, Machine repair (I am talking BIG Machines). Then you think we are at the mercy of other countries now. Just wait.

why don't the us government put more money behind new inventions...i/m sure the patent office has a copy of some of them..i suggest they do and intensive campaign directed to those people who have already submiited proposals to the patent office...maybe their is another bic lighter pen person sitting and waitting for help/or a bill gates /or whatever..

I am probably way off the mark of other comments on here, as I'm commenting not on the content, but rather on the spelling in this story. I have begun to notice spelling and grammar errors in large nationwide newspapers and online news posts, which I thought would always be correct in our recent culture of misspellings and such. "enimployment and home foreclosures, there is hope that the Obama program will turn our enconomy around."

RE: Jessica "spelling and grammar errors in large nationwide newspapers and online news posts"

When people search the web using search engines like Google or Metacrawler, they often misspell the search terms either because of typo's or ignorance. Search engine hits drive traffic to websites. Website traffic equals potential income.

Though proper spelling and grammer should be a goal in new media, to include common missspelling's and typo's in website content can increase the possibilty of a page being found by search engine users.

Try it yourself, enter a search term correctly spelled into your favorite search engine. Look at the results and then try misspelling the some words. The results will be different.

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The economy will only recover when housing stabilizes and taxes are lower. Everything else cascades from these two fundamentals of our economic system. To treat other symptoms doesn't address the disease. Whether we got into this mess through greed, incompetence, neglect, or all of these, the key here is for the Obama administration to take steps now for solutions.