Screaming Penguin

I am not sure about the stimulus package that was recently passed by the US govt with only 3 Republican supporters. I know we need to do something, but I am just not sure the government should try to spend us out of an economic hole - maybe the hole, and a little more accountability and self-reliance would do us good, in the long run (but yes be painful in the short term, relatively speaking), but I digress. We are getting the stimulus, like it or not. What really amazes me at this point is that the Republicans pick NOW to start worrying about fiscal responsibility? What about during the prescription drug debacle, or the Homeland Security Department debacle, or the Iraq War, or . . . . I could go on. At least spending the money ON THE STATES, on infrastructure and such, seems like a better plan than throwing it at pharma companies, false patriotic war profiteers, bombs and tanks for a "war" that has only made us weaker and more of target by even our own intelligence reporting standards, paying off laughing religious fanatics who agree to be our "allies," and so on. Oh but wait, we aren't stopping that spending just yet either, uh oh.