Since his impossible schedule prohibits Vice President Joe Biden from making it around to every stimulus spending project across the country, the government has come up with the idea of posting project signs to show your $787 billion of hard-earned future tax money at work.
Even if you no longer are at work because the national unemployment rate that was supposed to be capped at 8% by the spending is now 9.5% (higher west of the Mississippi).
The signs are an idea used widely across the country but perfected in Chicago Democratic politics, where everything good carries the name of the current mayor (but none near the unemployment offices or where traffic jams might occur).
Not that any of the bright orange signs are intended to remind potential voters which elected public officials should be remembered as taking care of things come election time.
Between President Obama’s shift to playground mode for the upcoming elections and this little Chicagoland political throwback, we’ve officially moved into the “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” portion of the Hope and Change era.
Remember, it’s not that things are really bad, it’s that we’re too stupid to understand the awesomeness as it’s happening, according to the president and his flying monkeys in the press corps. There seems to be a fervent, blind, desperate hope that the repetition of a wishful mantra can obviate the awakening of the electorate before November.
Despite the constant wailing from the unhinged left that this is all about race, an intellectual examination of the debate reveals that it is, and always has been, about the role of government. There are those who continue to ignore reality and believe that a hyperactive federal bureaucracy that ignores elementary school math principles can “help”. It might in the short run, the way one of those “payday loans” with usurious interest rates help. You feel better for a moment but the payback is a ten ton bitch with halitosis.
The federal behemoth can’t practice efficiency because it’s antithetical to its nature. Couple that with the fact that the people who advocate for greater federal action are also the least likely to ever seek accountability and it’s already a disaster before the ingredients are even mixed.
The insanity of these people is perfectly illustrated by none other than-SHOCKER!-President Obama’s home state of Illinois. Deeply in debt and unable to pay its bills, Illinois has nonetheless spent a cool $650,000 on these signs.
$4.4 billion in debt but able to piss away $650K with impunity-where’s the incentive to be efficient there?
Democrats of a bygone era operated somewhat within the rules of economic reality. The modern hybrid Progressive Democrats who dominate the left right now aren’t bound by anything other than short-term perception. Whatever they can shove down your throats in the name of feeding you what you need is acceptable. When choke on all that help they’re backs will have already turned to you and they’ll be moving towards the next “beneficiary” while you’re being quickly dispatched in the memory-wipe that’s necessary to maintain a Progressive point of view.
So, good luck with that, everyone.