When people smell 'easy money' they just go 'on vacation' thinking they can resurrect a destroyed economy all by themselves.
A $1 trillion dollar 'bailout' for stated, called a stimulus?
No.
...A group of influential Democratic governors (click title to entry - thank you) that includes Deval Patrick is pressing the federal government for a $1 trillion stimulus package for the states over the next two years that would contain $250 billion for education in an effort to avoid inflicting irreversible damage to schools during a fiscal crisis....
There is no fixing a country destroyed by decades of Republican Conservative influence and eight years of complete destruction of the USA infrastructure.
The 'influence' of Governors can't be 'catered to' in the face of REAL CHANGE in the country. If Barak Obama doesn't deliver change to this country while providing mass transit, alternate energies and 'carbon dioxide free' cars then what good is any stimulus to a dying planet? The fact of the matter is that while Governors have their own ideas for 'their own change' selling out to them to allow them to 'lead' the way isn't leadership at all.
There is nothing wrong with assisting states to change their infrastructure while building high speed magnetic rail to link the country. In doing same, jobs will be created and long term employment can be assured. Changing the infrastructure of the USA to stop its carbon dioxide emissions can't be sacrificed for ideas that simply 'seem' like a good idea.
Everyone is asking for too many concessions to rebuilding the country. The USA Dollar has to be supported along the way. Additionally, the jobs that are created/saved have to prove to be establishing a wider and widening tax base for the federal and state systems.
If the education system of the USA is in grossly neglected status, then blame it on the former administration and find a way to 'return' it to its former splender. But, to simply 'spend, spend, spend' to reach for an 'ideology' without a complete plan and vision would prove to be as bad as the administration that destroyed the system in the first place.
I do believe the electorate of the USA knows there is a NEW Secretary of Education at the FEDERAL level, right? A Secretary of State that will be happy to take any complaints, concerns and suggestions from Governors. The Governors weren't elected to Federal office, Barak Obama was.
I sincerely believe this 'feeding frenzy' is simply Democrats acting badly. They need to prove they have a SUSTAINABLE plan that will actually prove its performance before the country completely throws the baby out with the bath water.
Honestly !
I don't find it appropriate that Governors are simply going to 'take over' the USA Federal Treasury for their own purposes. IT'S NOT THEIR MONEY !!!!!
I'm really becoming disillusioned if this administration proves to be unable to sculpt real change in this country and simply 'sells out' federal programs to states for the sake of 'doing something.' States need to formulate their own infrastructure changes with verifiable guarantees of long term job growth and increasing tax bases.The Governors need to DO THEIR HOMEWORK and present verifiable results to any request for monies. This is ridiculous. It all sounds like 'flash in the pan ideologues' that see 'easy rides' to their administrative responsibilites. We don't need a blasted Gas Pipeline from Alaska through Canada either.
They all need to 'get over' themselves and go to work !
