RE: Refund Request
By E M Barner | Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | Policy
Unemployment numbers released yesterday showed the unemployment rate at a 26-year high of 9.5%. This translates to 467,000 jobs lost in the month of June alone.
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Dear Mr. President:
I’d like to request a refund on the Stimulus package you and your Congress passed this summer. You told me that passing your $787 stimulus package was necessary to avert unprecedented unemployment. Now, I’m finding out that the money is going to line bureaucrats budgets and build skateparks in small towns. After all this spending, we are finding out that unemployment is exactly where you said it would be if we DIDN’T pass the stimulus. Mr. President, I feel really cheated and I’d like a refund.
Sincerely,
DCH
American Citizen
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E M Barner, the blogger formerly known as DCH / De Civitate Hominis (“concerning the city of man”), writes from a Northern Virginia perspective. Barner has been active in Republican politics and policy since 1994 – as a grassroots volunteer, party leader, and professional.
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3 Responses to "RE: Refund Request"
good luck DCH. we’re going to get the expected story that had the stimulus package not passed the unemployment would have been worse. good money after bad
When I recently traveled in Wisconsin,the local media reported that due to the stimulus package there was an effort to expand the number of lanes on the interstate from the Illinois line to Milwaukee. Now perhaps without the stimulus package this project would have gone forward anyway. However I do not think that in an era of decreasing funding it is too far off the mark to claim the project went forward only due to the stimulus.
Perhaps not enough jobs were created, however jobs were created.
I wish I could get a refund for programs, policies, actions, etc… that the government has taken that I disagree with. But alas that will never happen, such is life.
Also, DCH look at the bright side. Of the $56 billion that has been spent so far, most has gone to Medicaid payments to the states. Without that help, Republicans in the House of Delegates might not have been able to balance Virginia’s budget. =)
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