Harsanyi on the stimulus

Author and Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi is like myself, very skeptical about Barack Obama's stimulus bill. He calls it the "The biggest con — ever."

Democrats have concocted a surefire political victory. They've
notified America that the so-called "stimulus" bill might take a long
time to work — which is exceptionally handy, considering we always
come out of a recession at some point.

The problem is there is no evidence that colossal government spending
and expansion will help a nation claw its way out of economic trouble
or, more importantly, generate a single job through real economic
growth.

So what do you do with an unproven idea? Well, you go big. Make the
proposal the most expensive to ever adorn paper — or, more precisely,
a trillion scraps of paper. Scare the holy living hell out of
detractors with doomsday scenarios worthy of Nostradamus.

And for God's sake, unite! Those pikers in Congress can do a lot
better than $825 billion. Surely there are more states to bribe, more
special interests to reward, more unions to pacify?

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