We cannot spend our way to wealth. That is a false choice, peddled by politicians pandering to a terrified people. We want to believe there is a ‘solution’ that will allow us to keep our luxurious lifestyles, but there is not.

I agree about Iraq, and would pull our troops not only out of Iraq, but all of our over 700 foreign military bases all over the world.

America is an overextended empire. We are in the same perilous position right now that 26 previous empires have been in as they fell into collapse.

It is time to pull in our horns, lower our standard of living, and create a local food system for the time very soon when the energy intensive corporate food system fails.

That amounts to about $35,000 for every man woman and child in Iraq, a country whose dictator was once our friend. A country that had no al quaida, until we got there, and had no WMD.

Now, we talk about spending the same amount of money total, (but only about $3,000 per person) to help ourselves out of a jam, and everyone is suddenly cost conscious.

I don’t know what the problem is, but it is pretty clear that its not the money.

Is it worth 54 million dollars?

I wholly disagree with any of the stimulus packages but if they’re going to spend, give it to the people. A family of four with a dislocated worker would really love $1,000 right now.

The United States total financial liabilities; explicit debts and unfunded obligations exceed $65 trillion. That’s five times as large as our national GDP. That is the hole we are now in. The last thing we need is to send down more shovels to keep digging it deeper.

I for one do not want to have to learn to speak Chinese and be under Red China’s iron fisted rule.

For the people who get jobs, however menial, to do this work, a Job is life sustaiing and life changing.

Just my thoughts

If all of that money were to be redirected to citizens DIRECTLY, every man, woman, and child in Boise would have roughly $271.00 just from the city’s share.