[quote=gandalf]Flu/CE, I completely agree with your last posts. Band-aids at best.
Just my two cents, but I think the next ‘leg up’ in the economy is going to involve changes to our energy paradigm — shifts in production, distribution, transportation, etc.
So I’d prefer to see a larger portion of the money going towards energy-related efforts. It’s a national security issue as well, so again, all the more reason to focus the dollars on solutions to the energy picture. Just my two cents.[/quote]
I’m not against the stimulas spending per se, I just don’t the way we’re doing this is the best use of our dollars. I’m not saying it go directly to corps either. But, what moved me was reading an article about this mid thirty person in living in detroit. He grew up as a blue collar worker, and never got a former education, because his environment didn’t seem to warrant he needed one (was featured on CNN). Now he says had the means to go school and learn something different.. The guy didn’t ATM his home to death it seems. Just a normal blue collar worker that didn’t know to get more education throughout the years.
People like this deserve a second a chance. He’s in his mid thirties for sakes……It would be a complete waste of his time to continue the next decade drifting from temp job to temp job in detroit, only to be much older and still in the same boat. And it would suck if he’s just left alone to waste…No dollars earmarked for his education. It’s not working.
Side note: I think it’s also sad that we have websites like kiva dedicated to helping folks in third world nations…We have people here too that could use a hand. I wonder if someone like this guy could go into school if enough people donated like $10 to some sort of scholarship/loan. Doesn’t have to be a great school. Just a reasonable state school of some sort…..
