Just a Thought: It's Two Years Silly, Not Six Months
It is as I feared and actually expected. The stimulus package is six months into its two year life span and the public (or at least the pundits) are complaining that everything isn't all better yet. Well the unemployment tsunami has slowed and if the states weren't hanging onto the money to patch holes in their budgets and putting it to work as they were supposed to their projects might very well be further along. In our little community we received some stimulus money for projects that we had had no idea how to fund, no ground hasn't broken yet but the projects are further along now than they were. "Shovel ready" after all does NOT mean that the crews have been hired and are just standing around... it means the plans have been approved and so forth now all we need is the funding. Oh sure, all across the country money will get redirected and misdirected but if even three quarters ends up where it supposed to things will improve. Financial institutions aren't l...