No Time For Senators And Representatives To Read The Stimulus Bill, But...

...now what?

I work for the State here in Oregon. When the Stimulus Bill was passed, we went into high gear to start planning additions to current highway construction projects to help stimulate the economy. Not an easy undertaking!

But, we managed to squeeze a year of planning into about one month.

Then, last week we installed the newly designed "Putting Oregon Back To Work" signs up on the project I'm working on. Governor Kulongowski had a photo op in front of the signs on another "Stimulus Project". Just one little problem.

There are a lot of hoops to jump through. The money isn't available. They are still tying all the strings onto that money. Lots of strings attached to that money, ya know.

Now we are trying to figure out how to pay for the signs! Money won't get here until June, they say. And it has to be spent by mid-September.

I don't really understand this "Stimulus" stuff. The project I'm working on will spend an extra million dollars, put a dozen construction workers back to work for a couple months, then be done.

A million bucks. Twelve people. Two months? Is it really so important we can't take a couple days to think about this?

I don't agree with the Democrats. I don't agree with the Republicans. But, I don't mind if the politicians think about what they're doing!

Just my two cents...