Who Is This “Everyone” That Our Vice President Is Speaking About?
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Seeking a hiding place to duck any accountability, Vice President Joe Biden is quoted as saying on Sunday that “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the economic stimulus. Just because the White House hasn’t been able to deliver on getting more jobs by breaking the bank in spending money that the federal treasury didn’t have – let’s not get to thinking that the stimulus idea was a bad approach to take.
I was wondering who this “everyone” was that did the poor guessing? Most of the people I know and who had anything to say about the trillion dollar spending binge thought the idea stunk from the get-go.
Just because the majority party in Washington, D.C., running Congress and the White House, all supported the plan, doesn’t mean that “everyone” messed up. Those running Congress and the White House did mess up and they should be held accountable for “guessing wrong”, but don’t try and make it sound like it’s just a little oops that anybody could have gotten slightly disoriented about.
It would be nice to hear someone in charge be a grown up and “own it”.
Turning the United States into a socialist state is not a good idea and those actions, including the current focus on a national health care program, should be scrapped before even more harm is done.
With “everyone” doing the guessing they are getting wrong – how about reversing course and start doing the work that doesn’t take this guessing. Given the track record of performance with how badly things have been going, doing the things that have been done – why is doing more of the same supposed to be the right direction?
Seeking a hiding place to duck any accountability, Vice President Joe Biden is quoted as saying on Sunday that “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the economic stimulus. Just because the White House hasn’t been able to deliver on getting more jobs by breaking the bank in spending money that the federal treasury didn’t have – let’s not get to thinking that the stimulus idea was a bad approach to take.
I was wondering who this “everyone” was that did the poor guessing? Most of the people I know and who had anything to say about the trillion dollar spending binge thought the idea stunk from the get-go.
Just because the majority party in Washington, D.C., running Congress and the White House, all supported the plan, doesn’t mean that “everyone” messed up. Those running Congress and the White House did mess up and they should be held accountable for “guessing wrong”, but don’t try and make it sound like it’s just a little oops that anybody could have gotten slightly disoriented about.
It would be nice to hear someone in charge be a grown up and “own it”.
Turning the United States into a socialist state is not a good idea and those actions, including the current focus on a national health care program, should be scrapped before even more harm is done.
With “everyone” doing the guessing they are getting wrong – how about reversing course and start doing the work that doesn’t take this guessing. Given the track record of performance with how badly things have been going, doing the things that have been done – why is doing more of the same supposed to be the right direction?
Posted by Doug Busselman at 6/15/2009 7:58 AM 
Categories: Federal Stimulus
Tags: Jobs Federal Stimulus Growing Unemployment
Categories: Federal Stimulus
Tags: Jobs Federal Stimulus Growing Unemployment
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