Friday, January 9, 2009

This economics stuff ain't so hard

Here's my plan to stimulate the economy, but god knows they won't use it because it's just too common-sensical:

  • Keep all the proposed stimulus money out of the hands of banks, financial professionals, and anyone connected with any Wall Street institution. Those bastards put us where we are today so no way in hell should they be allowed to handle one cent of that money.
  • Use some of the money to fix every highway and bridge in the country.
  • Use some of that money to fix up and update every public school in the country, and that includes all public universities.
  • Use part of that money to restore art, music, and gym classes to every K through 12 public school in the country.
  • Use part of that money to do energy audits on every federal, state, and local governmental building in the country. And then if changes are needed to make those building energy efficient then use more of the money to makes the changes needed.
  • Use part of that money to purchase solar energy systems that will be mounted on every federal, state, and local governmental building in the country.
  • Use part of that money to purchase solar energy systems that will be mounted on every retail building, church, and non profit in the country.
  • Use part of that money to start industrial hemp farms all across the country. If we grew less corn and more hemp it would benefit our economy and our health because there would be less corn to make High Fructose Corn syrup with.
  • Use part of that money to fund local neighborhood farms and farmers markets.
  • Use part of the money to re-open factories that were closed when companies moved their manufacturing to China and other places.

Most everything I have listed could be done easily and would benefit the country in the short and the long run. If we used the bulk of the money to fix our crumbling infrastructure and to wean ourselves from using coal and oil then it's a win win for all of us, well except for big oil and big coal but who cares about them anyway, they've been fucking us for years and it's about time we fucked them back.

Everything in the above list can be done with American workers and can't be outsourced. It would put millions of people to work and hundreds of new companies would spring in to business to help accomplish all those things.

If we give stimulus money to Haliburton and Blackwater we are screwed. If we let big business handle things during this tricky time we are screwed. If we let Mitch McConell and Bob Corker get their hands on this money we are screwed. Same goes for Diane Feinstein and any other Republican wanna be.

5 comments:

Life As I Know It Now said...

Use part of that money to start industrial hemp farms all across the country. If we grew less corn and more hemp it would benefit our economy and our health because there would be less corn to make High Fructose Corn syrup with.

dammit, why aren't you the prez? we could do with less corn syrup and more hemp!

barbie2be said...

i would like to nominate dr. monkey von monkerstein for the position of director of treasury.

you now hold the purse strings of the country, dr. monkey!

go to it!

lisahgolden said...

Well, there you go again, reversing the Reagan legacy and mantra that government is the problem.

Anonymous said...

Throw in some money for mass transit (including more money for Amtrak), with an emphasis on light rail for urban and suburban centers, a bit to allow cities to have real bike lanes, and I'm in. Oh, and companies bidding for projects (or providing goods and services) must be subject to a preference system, with first preference going to US incorporated companies that pay good wages and benefits to their workers (and allow union participation if they want it), second preference to foreign corporations with US subsidiaries that pay good wages and benefits, then all others.

Suzy said...

What everyone said, especially icantbelieveitsnotademocracy.