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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (102932)	2/3/2009 12:32:28 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543676

Mary; Mort Zuckerman was just on and he said it is not a stimulus plan but rather a social policy plan. There are good reasons why everything can not and should not be directed toward infrastructure expense. What does that comment mean? Everything? 1. Not all infrastructure proposals are "shovel ready". 2. Not all infrastructure proposals will have good ROI. 3. There is high liklihood that some infrastructure proposals will fail. 4. Very little infrastructure expense will remedy current economic woes. So what are you saying about the infrastructure expense? That you do not favor that part of the bill? That all infrastructure is not ready or might not meet the goal or whatever is of course correct. But so what - at least we are trying. That people on this thread argue endlessly in favor of the spending in the bill that is "social policy" (gosh I like the way Mort put that) - only convinces me how important it is to reign in this spending before it really gets out of control. Democrats are missing something very important and inherent in this thread - the center. Democrats did not elect Obama - the center did and the center can and will abandon Obama if they think he is pushing for a social policy plan rather than a stimulus plan. But hey, your "intentions are good". steve