This graphic vividly demonstrates just how successful Stimulus was. BTW: Stimulus is now the name for a thing, like Godzilla and Helen Thomas.
"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make"--J.M. Barrie
"Our big, loving federal government picked up the same concept - only now it upgraded it from "random" to "universal - or as they say in New York, "the whole schmear." ...
"After a few short months even the progressive New Yorkers found the practical implementation of their own ideas of fairness and redistributive justice too absurd to continue."
"As we can see, even the toughest proponents of utopian relativist morality still need to rely on absolute standards in order to survive and advance their careers. No one can live on junk values alone; that utopian world exists entirely at the expense of the reality-based universe. Those who claim to live solely by impossible utopian principles are only deluding themselves and the others."Now, as the State rises in power, and more Americans find themselves in poverty and chains than anybody will dare admit, folks are too overwhelmed to even care. They are further pressed into the cognitive dissonance of accepting a utopian worldview because the alternative might mean work. Commitment and work.
Mr Medvedev (Putin's Puppet) blamed the US for the global financial crisis, saying that the rest of the world had been "dragged down with it into recession". He (Putin's Puppet) claimed that the era of American domination after the collapse of the Soviet Union was now over.
"The world cannot be ruled from one capital. Those who do not want to understand this will only create new problems for themselves and others," he (Putin's Puppet) said.